Why does it take the death of someone for people to begin showing appreciation? - Page 2 - MixMakers.net

yann de blaine

the guy sold 750 million records, if thats not appreaciation, i dont know what it is...

Vader

yo.

whitemamba

I think that it's sad that he died so unexpectedly and at such a young age (50 might not be young, but it's much younger than when you would want to die), but I can't sit here and say I miss him or I was a huge fan of his music. I'm not old enough to really be able to appreciate what he did back in the day. I will always remember him more as the creepy pale guy that supposedly molested children at his Neverland ranch. I wasn't around during his glory days, so obviously I won't remember them.

R.I.P. to him though. He was a legend, and it wasn't time for him to die yet.

srtfinest

I dunno but I knew this would happen ppl that never showed mj love or had tons of jokes..would feel sick when he died. This is a basketball site tho...so I won't talk about my love for Marvin Gaye Michael Jackson Stevie Wonder...on a regular basis. I hope this could be a lesson to ppl.

**nitelite** · 09:31 PM

I'll be the first to admit i'm no fan of Michael Jackson. I didn't support him then, and I won't support him now. But i will also admit that his death has created a curiosity in me. I became interested to know who he really was and have listened to a few of his songs since he died. I discovered that he was a tragic figure...and didn't deserve a lot of the public scorn he got. So I guess in that sense, his death created more interest in me.

I witnessed all this first hand when Heath Ledger died. He was never my favorite actor, but I owned about 4 of his movies before he died. He was Ennis Del Mar from Brokeback Mountain, Sonny Grotowski from Monster's Ball, Dan from Candy, and Robbie from I'm Not There long before he was the Joker from the Dark Knight. The guy had never had a major box office hit in his life before TDK but all of a sudden "legions of fans" that have given him "overwhelming support" his entire career pop out of nowhere and proclaim him as one of the best actors ever...which honestly still is not the case. He has one more film coming out, and I'll bet you hardly anyone goes to see it. If people wanted to honor him they would have given him Best Actor in 2005 when he deserved it even more so than he did for The Joker (not taking anything away from it though...it was amazing in it's own right).

It's just the way people are.

karolkarol

In such cases appreciation is one of the last things they show by doing that.

Wade+Shaq=Chip'

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Originally Posted by whitemamba

I think that it's sad that he died so unexpectedly and at such a young age (50 might not be young, but it's much younger than when you would want to die), but I can't sit here and say I miss him or I was a huge fan of his music. I'm not old enough to really be able to appreciate what he did back in the day. I will always remember him more as the creepy pale guy that supposedly molested children at his Neverland ranch. I wasn't around during his glory days, so obviously I won't remember them.

R.I.P. to him though. He was a legend, and it wasn't time for him to die yet.

I pretty much feel the same way exactly.

**Sikwitit2**

I won't front, I'm no fan of MJ. In fact, I never really listened to any of his songs except the few commercial things that may come on the radio every now and then. I never listened to his albums or anything. What makes all of this "respect" bull**** is that in OUR generation, Michael Jackson was never known for his music first. He was a media icon. Period. His last album was what? 2001? And the one before that was in 1995. Were any of you guys even teenagers then? Michael Jackson was no more than the punchline of a joke, a strange looking/odd colored (fe)male, and a complete weirdo. It's a shame we only decide we should respect him because he's dead. At least spare me the hypocrisy. If you're gonna sh!t on him his entire life until he dies, go piss on his grave. Don't bring flowers to his funeral.

/Rant.

And back on topic, this goes beyond just celebrities. Yea, we've had quite a week. But celebrities are just people the media/hollywood uses to make money, people that make us regular people jealous and wishful. Don't go appreciate them just because their dead. Don't decide that you should appreciate celebrities their entire life. Go appreciate the people you live with, hang out with, socialize with, and are friends with. Go appreciate your mother or father. Tomorrow's not promised for anybody. Yea, it's pretty odd to see icon's (er..idols) fall out like this, so many so quickly. But it's not odd at all for a normal person to die at any given moment. And none of us are going to get any headlines.

So to quote Kanye West,
"So here's a few words from your kid brother
If you admire somebody you should go ahead and tell 'em
People never get the flowers while they could smell 'em"

tony.montana

Well I don't ask for sigs or anything, and I won't make a huge thing out of it, people die everyday. Only thing I can add is that I grew up with his music, cause my father used to play his music always, and when I was little I used to watch his concerts and dance to them. Now I only like have the thriller album, and that's it, but I don't how I could support him.

But did you notice how many legends died these years. Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, James Brown, Bearnie Mac and now Michael and Farrah?

BtW, he really died young, 50 isn't really old.

j3c

Whenever I thought of Michael Jackson I always wondered why he had to turn so weird. I always felt it was a shame that he wasn't more comfortable with himself despite all of his musical talents.