Archive for July 2nd, 2009

King of Pop-Michael Jackson

                   Popularity In next August Michael Jackson could have become 51 years old.  He was very enthusiastic, full of energy and vital even in the last days of his youth and it is evident from the fact that he was preparing for his five concerts. He had also planned to perform from July 13, 2009 to March 6, 2010 in 50 concerts. One of the amazing facts is it that all the tickets of these 50 concerts had already been sold. It means that he could have earned fifty crore Ponds if he had performed in these concerts. These figures indicate that he had enough energy even in the last days of his youth with which he could stun his fans. It is the proven fact that all his concerts used to be surprising and problematic. His world tours always pulled record breaking crowds. From MTV to Bill Board all his albums remained on top for weeks. His album History remained on top for 80 consecutive weeks and 109 million copies of this album were sold over the entire world. All his single and group albums were praised and liked by the people.   Unique Style His unique style of presentation always impressed his fans and sometimes was also criticized. The video of one of his song was very interesting. In this video the communist flag was shown and also the march of the ‘Red Army’. Mao’s statue is pulled down in the video and Michael Jackson is shown going high and high in the sky in a military dress. Mao’s statue is brought down while Jackson’s statue takes its position. This song truly depicts the collective American point of view towards the communist China. But there is no doubt that he is king of pop. His song ‘the don’t care about us’ was filmed in the Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro in which we can see the streets and the poverty of the city suburbs. It also presents how the human rights are violated. He had to face a lot of criticism for the video of this song and it also coasted him his friendship with Hollywood director Steven Spielberg. It was also said that this song depicts his anti-Semitic views. But Michael Jackson never shirked from his responsibilities for the civilized society and had performed in many charity shows to [...]