It’s 6:15 pm and news has spread that Michael Jackson has passed away. I’m still in the newsroom, getting ready to leave. Everyone is running around frantic, debating if they should broadcast the news because TMZ..a celebrity gossip blog..seems to be the only one confirming it.
So it didn’t hit me because who believes them.
Then I drive home, and his music is all over the radio…even the Caucasian stations. And they call him a “pop icon”. That’s when I realized the impact his music had..on the entire world.
I listen as everyone chimes in on how he made such an impact on their lives. And I remember his impact on mine.
Back when our family was together, we used to dance to him all night long. I used to play with my neighbor and my little sister, and we would have karaoke contests…to the Jackson 5. And I swore I could sing. And what about the dance contests…where I had the moondance down pat. As a family, we watched the Jackson 5 movie at least one hundred times…together!
I remember the family reunions and the soul train lines…even marching band..where I jammed on my saxophone to Thriller and created the dance. Yes I remember…
Driving to work..I listen to all of his music “You are not alone” , “ABC”, “Rock my World”…it goes on. And I just want to get out of my car in the middle of the highway and dance. I don’t even want to go to work…I just want to be around other people to celebrate his life and music…
Yes he had problems, serious problems. But he is dead. So for now, can we just remember his impact on music?
Listen to his songs! The rhymic compilation of various instruments and synthesizers, attached to his voice…and then he could dance, popping to every beat. And the variety of his lyrics..from love to saving and healing the world..his videos..done worldwide.. Who can top that? No one! His music didnt even need “ningun” (no) translation! Everyone worldwide understood it..(partially because almost everyone knows a little bit of English)
Let that be a lesson to everyone worldwide! Do you want to be remembered worldwide? He was a genus at his craft.
And we as people should work hard to be genus at ours! Whatever we do!
-Stephanie Claytor
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