Bill Whitfield: ..there was one memory that kept running through my mind, a conversation I’d had with Grace back at the Monte Cristo house when I first started working there. She and I were in the garage. I was putting together some of the security equipment, and Grace was at the little workstation she’d set up. Mr Jackson had told her to try and get in touch with somebody. 

She was getting frustrated and she said, “The boss wants me to get in touch with this person, and I keep leaving messages, but nobody’s calling me back. It’s like he forgets sometimes that people don’t want anything to do with him after all this mess.“ I said, ”What mess? What are you talking about?“ 

”The trial,“ she said. ” Since the trial, a lot of people just don’t call back anymore.“

She was giving me the heads up, filling me in on how things worked, like she often did. She started telling me about the days right after the trial was over. ”After he was acquitted,“ she said, ”we had a party at Neverland for him to celebrate, and nobody came.“

”Nobody?“

”A few people,“ she said, ”but not many“.

She said they’d put together a guest list of all these friends and people Mr. Jackson had worked with over the years. They invited close to three hundred people. Maybe fifty showed up. And a lot of people who did come were people that worked for him. People that worked the grounds at Neverland. People from his lawyer’s office. People who were paid to be there. Everyone else called and said they couldn’t make it or they had other things planned.

”And he knew,“ Grace said, ”He knew why they didn’t come. People called him and told that they loved him and that they were praying for him, but very few people would go public and say that they believed him. A lot of people act like his friends but not they’re not really his friends. If he’s not making money, they’re not really around.“

- Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days

Try and think of a person who became an international success before he hit puberty, gave millions of dollars to charity (and subsequently saved thousands of lives), was an innovator of dance and fashion, and changed the music industry and increased its standards to levels that had never even been contemplated. Try and think of a person who’s music has touched more lives and been bought by more people than any other person’s music on the planet, who united countries, religions and races. Think of someone who stayed humble despite his overwhelming success and became the international symbol for love and peace when he was alive. Someone who was in tremendous physical and mental pain for about 40 years and to this day every supposedly damning story or ‘fact’ about him has been proven wrong. Think of someone who broke racial barriers and fought against the discrimination against sex, age, sexuality and race since he was a child. This person gave more to charity than any other performer in the world and brought more people together than any other singer or political party. 

The only person who fits all of this criteria is Michael Jackson. This is why we say there can never be another King Of Pop, there will never be another Michael.

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(The Glenda Tapes 2-2)

Michael: You know what, I don’t want them to get close and I don’t want them to see in my soul. And then I deal with this anorexia thing… I feel sad.
Glenda: Don’t, Michael. You look really good. (Silence) You look really good.
Michael: (After a silence- very low, strained) I don’t look good. I (I)

[…]

Michael: It’s like, If I danced wrong, if I sang the wrong note, I’d get the hell beat out of me, I’d get thrown in the basement. So instead of taking that out on other people, I withdrew and I’d take it out on myself. There was nothing I could control in my life but my eating.

Du vet aldrig vad någon går igenom. Ha det bara i åtanke.

 

Listening to Mike’s entire catalogue from beginning to end I imagine is a pretty emotional experience because you can just hear how he went from singing for pure joy when he was younger to singing to vent his anger as he got older.

He just got progressively more angry at the world, and it’s so sad to think about.

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"I randomly watched that interview with MJ and Lisa Marie and I’m just…In a bad mood because…They interviewer (Diane Swayer) is talking to him about how his HIStory promo is the biggest example of concieted celeb and he’s getting people to worship him and other bullshit ….I dunno it just makes me sad because this man NEVER said he was King although he knew it. He was humble I would say- even to a FAULT. He makes a promo with white girls fainting over him, a statue of himself being erected, and you call him egotistical and such, when this man NEVER had a Kanye I’m the best/better than you moment even though he had EVERY right too. And it’s like… All he got was shit for EVERYTHING I don’t know how he did it it astounds me.

Like in that (ugh I hate to even talk about it) Martin Bashir interview, where Michael’s like “I like to climb trees” and the guy goes oh you like to climb trees more than having sex? YO. The man said he like to climb fucking trees why you tryin so hard to make him like some freak over a simple statement. That’s like… you saying to me “I like drinking tea” and I go “what you like drinking tea more than having sex wow you’re a sexless child like freak” NAH FAM. Person said they like to drink tea what the fuck does that response got to do with ANYTHING

Like they never let him LIVE. The lady asked him if he wished he still had “black skin” and Mike is straight up like “I love being black next.” I don’t know how he did it. That love in his heart… And no one even acknowledges that"

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Beyond the genius of what he was, he was just a genuinely, genuinely nice person. He got me hooked on movies that I would normally never watch. Fred Astaire movies. All the old classics. I would never, never watch those. I remember my fiancée and I telling him we were getting married, and him just being really excited and actually just offering up the ranch to have our wedding there, because privacy was going to be an issue. We wanted to get married in a church, so that's what we wound up doing. But he made the offer. He was just a genuinely nice person who was exceptionally bright, exceptionally bright, and driven and talented. You mix those things together, man, you have Michael Jackson."

~ KOBE BRYANT