Blog: The Shimm

I vented a little yesterday on the exploitation of Michael Jackson's death. It was like they were putting him up on a pedestal for a week in order to tear him down (perhaps deservedly so) next week. Dave Abravanel, a music critic at CokeMachineGlow , reflecting on the importance of Off the Wall, suggested the media has become fixated on which Michael Jackson was to be remembered--the child pop star of the 60 and 70's combined with his later pop transcendance in the 1980's or his "wacko jacko" phase. I for one don't [...]