Most fans and supporters of Michael Jackson are sending their eulogies and condolences to official Michael Jackson Eulogy websites online. I’m not going to bother doing that, I’ll just do mine right here.

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The Brock’s Eulogy to Michael Jackson

In my childhood years, I was a huge Michael Jackson fanatic. I collected his albums, his merchandise, had posters of him hanging on my bedroom wall. Would watch every music video he has done and seen every film he has played in. When the, “Thriller” video first debuted on MTV, I was blown away and in total awe. I was hooked to Michael Jackson ever since. As a kid, I used to be scared of that, “Thriller” video, especially when Michael Jackson was a zombie in it and hearing Vincent Price’s scary voice over at the end of the song.

Then he came out with tons more videos from “Beat it”, “Billie Jean”, “The Way You Make Me Feel”, “Smooth Criminal”, “Bad”, etc. I would watch those all the time on MTV. His movies like, “The Wiz” and “Moonwalker”, I also loved too much. Still do today.

I’ve admired Michael Jackson’s career up until he started changing himself, when he started changing his skin color to white and messing up his plastic surgery, the child molestation trial, hanging a baby out the window, that’s when him as a person started to turn me off… but I’ll always admire him as a music artist, performer and songwriter. The man was a musical genius no matter what kind of man he was in his personal life.

Yes, of course, Michael Jackson is going to get picked on, be hated on, and be made fun of, being an easy target in entertainment media. That’s how the music business is made to be. If everyone’s opinion in the music business had to be the same, then the music world would be boring. Those that talked negative over Michael Jackson over the years, it did nothing but help him become the icon and legend that he is today. MJ once said, “Talking negative sells”, he is so right.

Michael Jackson maybe a weird, crazed out whacko, but who isn’t? Everyone is weird in some way or another. Jackson never had an ego problem, he always had a passion in entertaining people with his music and films. Everyone makes mistakes in life, even the rich and famous. You do not know Michael Jackson personally, so that doesn’t give people the right to call him a pedophile. Just because you like children does not make you a pedophile. Those that think like that is pretty immature and pretty disrespectful.

MJ is innocent until he was proven guilty, he was cleared of all charges of the child molestation case. I don’t think MJ was a pedophile, that’s just my personal opinion on the man. He was just wrongfully judged and was misunderstood by the world because of his child molestation trial back then.

It is funny on how people think they knew everything about MJ’s life, when the reality is, people don’t know anything about him behind the scenes of the music business. Jackson maybe a disturbing individual but his music is what impacted people. People just respected the man for the music, not him as a person.

Michael Jackson’s music influenced musicians from all over the world, be it, amateur, unsigned or profesional…his music inspired other musicians no matter what genre. MJ knew how to write music that are tight and with so much intensity, every song he did, it stuck in your head forever. He was a great melody maker.

You can love Michael Jackson, or you can hate him with a passion, the fact is, this is the truth, that the world lost an important figure in the music business. He maybe gone, but his music and legacy he left behind will live on forever. I was in total shock of his death, just as everyone else.

The day that Jackson died, before then, I made that post, “Is Jacko the next one to go”? I left my computer for a while after that, then I heard on News Channel 13 later on, that Jackson died, and my jaw immediately dropped. I just couldn’t believe that my prediction of him dying next was exactly right. I just didn’t think it would be this soon.

Michael Jackson was a genius, and a music god. I listened to his music for years and still do today. May he rest in peace, my condolences go out to the Jackson family (even to his sister Janet), and his friends.

Kev