Everything you said, my sentiments exactly J5Master. Great post!! In fact, not only A L L of that, even during the trial of his life, he STILL went into the studio and cranked out one of the most enchanting songs I have ever heard AND released the Ultimate Collection with carefully selected songs on it ...not even knowing for sure whether he was going to be around to even DO another album.
Since he's picking up where he left off, I do wish he'd release that partially completed video :whisperinginear:
:lol: yeh well, I'm all for those T-shirts
The details you outlined here almost made me cry - and even this is only the half - the lonliness you mentioned by itself is a Goliath some fans just don't comprehend ....the impact that can have on a person's sense of simple equilibrium.
His strength really is the stuff of myth, it absolutely is.
On top of ALL of that, everybody knows full well how important it is to him that his finished product be exactly like he wants/needs it to be before he'll release anything.
Not to mention the importance of a conducive mental/emotional/personal environment for Michael to create in being that he operates primarily off of inspiration, and in case y'all haven't noticed, :chichi:Michael's plate is still full enough of some rather uninspiriing things.
Some fans want him to go cranking out a new album like its :chichi:NOTHING.
I guess the good news about all these discompassionate, impatient fans is that its good for Michael in the end, I mean, at least he can be guaranteed they will be some hungry creatures when it comes feeding time :lol:
(but you guys just have to cut the man a break, and I mean it -_- really, its getting to be kind of absurd)
Yeah, absolutely. Beautiful post.
I mean it what I say. I base my view of Michael off of Michael himself, not what I hear about him or what people tell me. I wish people could be more understanding of him, because from the first time I really paid attention to Michael,
really paid attention and listened to him, I could see this real
hurt there, and this sort of longing to belong, I could see he felt out of place, and when you feel you can't relate or that no one relates to you, whether through intention or inability, that hurts so much, its what makes you feel alone. The part which I highlighted from your post, that's what's always gotten me, because we all feel some sense of lonliness from time to time, but for Michael, I imagine it must be or must have been, at least for a large part of his life, a constant and no doubt consuming presence. Watching him speak about it and seeing how just the thought of that lonliness has brought him close to tears, that shows the kind of pain he's experienced just from that alone, on top of everything else. People write off his childhood and say he didn't have it that bad. But those are
his feelings and its how it affected him. It is a truly select, small group of people who have a similar experience, certainly no one here. Michael even started far younger then most, and his sensitivity I think heightens his awarness of exactly what he lost, or really never had. Imagine that responsibility, being the lead singer or a group and the bread winner for your entire, large family from the age of 6. He never was allowed to be a child to to live a child's care free existence, or have that kind of perception. You know the actress Jennifer Connely? She was in films from around the age of 12 I think and she's said she lost any sense of a care-free mind frame from then on, and she's sad about it, sad that she couldn't experience the whole of her childhood. Michael lost that 7 years earlier, at the age of 5. That's too young to remember anything
but from that point foward. So he essentially never did experience boyhood or freedom from the burden of an adult existence. He basically has been an adult since he was a child. Physically he was a boy, but mentally, he never was given that freedom or that right.
I know I've gone off on a bit of a tangent. But that leads in to where he is now and why people should cut him some slack. He hasn't been able to rest since as long as he can remember. If it wasn't work, it was people abusing him, taking from him, asking of him, manipulating him, etc... Through all that, he's remained a positive, caring person whose love for people is the most genuine I've ever seen. And he's a person who is adiment about the imitation of
nature and getting as close to the reality of life as is possible through that process. That's arts ultimate purpose, to reveal the truth, and Michael's
always done that. He's an emotional genius, he takes his audience straight to the heart, to the core of what a feeling is and he shows it to them bare. But good art takes time. Michael is highly introspective, and he thinks a lot about what he's feeling inside and then puts that out in his work, so we can too feel it, hear it and see it in a pure form.
Anyway, the point of it all is, Michael is doing what he can and that's a hell of a lot.