MJ

I did a lot of driving last weekend....which meant a lot of listening to the radio. We heard a LOT of Michael Jackson music due to his passing last week. I was trying to explain to Lizzy how significant his music was when I was a kid because, to Lizzy...he's a singer who has had a long career and turned into a very strange person. When I was a kid..he was not strange...he was COOL. Really cool. I was telling Lizzy how when his music videos came out it was a prime time event. He was handsome, could dance and sing. We didn't yet know about his abusive childhood...and really, for me I was completely out of touch with the "Jackson 5". It was not until I was a teen that I became aware that he'd had a long career. Yes, he turned into a pretty strange, troubled, possibly criminal person. But when you look at the music he turned out over the span of 40 years, you can't help but reminisce a little. Name a MJ song and I could tell you what stage of my life I was in. The video below is the first performance I remember very well of him...it was in 1893 I believe...so that would make me 6. I remember thinking that I wanted to dance like that!!! I used to enjoy dancing (ask Penny) and he was definitely a person who could inspire me to do it.