Heal The World

Listening to: Trust - Sevendust
Mood: the sickening feeling you get when you've eaten WAY too much

In the last couple of weeks I've been trying to compile a play-list of music I want played at my birthday party in a few weeks time. I sit and ponder what would I enjoy listening to, and what would the people I've invited enjoy dancing and listening to? I sat and scrolled through my 9000 track-list on iTunes and decide to first put in all the songs I share with specific people, ok so with that out of 20 odd songs I have 5, another 15 to decide. The latest hits perhaps? No, the DJ will have that. Classic songs I listened to as a child? Ok another 5 songs down, 10 to go. Then I began to think about songs that have been played at recent parties I've been to, like old school sort of songs that have been played, first thought; Michael Jackson.

I remember a time where I was the only person brave enough to admit I love Michael Jackson's music and everyone just said "how could you? He's a child molester!" but I just stuck to my guns and told them that I had grown up listen to Michael and that regardless of his personal life his music was still amazing. Boy did I get laughed at and now after his death all those people who laughed at me and made sly comments like that listen to his music constantly and say how much they love him. But do they really?

It annoys me to see people who do this. Why? Because I've experienced friendships somewhat like this scenario where they'll be there for all the good times, but disappear on you when you need them. Sure I'm merely a fan of Michael's, and not even a massive fan at that, but still it annoys me to see this happen.

A few years back, almost 5 now, just as his child molester case was coming to light, I made a DVD about something, can't remember exactly what, but Michael Jackson's "Heal The World" worked beautifully with is and I got so much criticism from people about it. And as I said before, those same people are now proclaiming how they love him, but none of them owned a CD or song by him before his tragic death on the 25th of June 2009.

Sure I'm probably overreacting, but I guess to some extent it shows what sort of person these people are, what sort of friends they're. Perhaps that taking a few steps to far to say they're the same in friendships, but who knows? It could be something so deep in their psyche that they haven't tapped into just yet, for all you know this could just be the surface of it all.

I'm one of those people who'd rather one best friend over ten friends. And if you happened to be that lucky one best friend, then I'm one to shift mountains to make them happy, to be there for them. This is perhaps why I'm worked up about something like this, loyalty is VERY important, so are other things of course.

But I guess there are always two sides to a coin and the flip would be the way the public has reacted over his death and it's just the amount of sudden acceptance that people are tapping into. But with that said, does that now mean that it's genuine or is it all due to peer pressure and it's all a facade to "fit in" as such?

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