Matt City Amway Conference, Introducing a Disease and an Icon

Who is Michael Jackson? Needless to say.

Ever since I watched the video of Michael Jackson's concert, as an atheist, I have since believed that it was a god. If there was ever a god in the world, I think it must be Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson is probably the most popular idol in the world. However, in the age when the Internet is not yet popular enough and communication is not developed enough, it is not a very smooth thing to identify Michael Jackson as the faith of this life.

Thanks to the powerful cultural output of the US Empire in the world, Michael Jackson's name still penetrated into Chinese society through layers of media, which was not open enough at that time. I, a little kid with a little common sense, know that it is the most awesome in the world today. The coolest star.

Constrained by the times, I initially only had two songs in MJ music. One is the anti-juvenile violent rock song "beat it" that he sang all over the world, and the other is the charity song "we are the world" that supports Africa and can be used as the theme song for the United Nations. After these two songs passed through the eardrums once, I decided that Michael Jackson was a peerless musical genius. Controlling two styles of songs at the same time, switching freely with ease, worthy of being an international superstar.

These two songs have been around for nearly 20 years when I first listened to them, but there is no sense of age magically. Not to mention, I thought it was a hit song that was just released, but I found out after a check: It turns out that before the world was without me, human beings have already created pop songs of this level...

But at that time, I didn't realize that Michael Jackson was an idol worth following for a lifetime, but I was full of confusion: the musical genius who composed "we are the word", the theme song of the United Nations' humanities, and the gossip entertainment. Invasion, plastic surgery, perversion, child molestation, drug abuse... Are the international superstars who have all kinds of scandals really the same person? !

At that time, MJ was no longer at the peak of his career. What appeared on the TV news was a face that was a little stiff and not smooth due to excessive plastic surgery, and a vampire-like pale skin covered with heavy makeup. For children at that time like me, I did feel a little terrified and a little confused.

So, is Michael Jackson a monster or an icon?

With limited knowledge, I attribute this contradictory symbiosis to the following: Capitalist society is open, drug abuse and other things are everyday, unlike our artists. Although Michael Jackson's private life was in turmoil, the songs he sang were still unforgettable with three views, super integrity, and soul...

My childhood confusion was not unraveled until the death of Michael Jackson.

On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson passed away suddenly. The next day, all the headlines were mourning, shock, regret, remembrance, tribute, legend, greatness... And those rumors that accompanied him the day before seemed to have never existed...

It seems that the world likes to lose before they know how to cherish...

After MJ's death, the person who had accused him of sexual assault came forward and said: In order to make money, he falsely accused MJ of molesting children... The doctor confirmed that Michael Jackson suffered from severe vitiligo, and his skin turned white due to the use of makeup and covering drugs all the year round...

During his lifetime, MJ was attacked by rumors of betraying his race by bleaching his skin because his skin turned white. In order to prevent vitiligo patients from being discriminated against and misunderstood, June 25th, the anniversary of MJ's death, became the World Vitiligo Memorial Day.

In this way, a skin disease and Michael Jackson, two seemingly unrelated elements were tied together.

On June 25th, we commemorate idols, popularize diseases, and at the same time understand: the slander that rumors and slander can cause to a person... Even super idols like Michael Jackson are not immune...