Many things have been said and written about Michael Jackson’s death. As for me, I read a very interesting article this summer in French Express that caught my attention. This article makes an interesting parallel between Michael Jackson’s life, that is between the 20th and 21th century and the evolution of the society we are living in. Here is a quote from the article that summarizes pretty well the main idea (I translated it myself so it might be an imperfect one): ‘’ This characteristic (search of himself) lead the singer […] toward an undetermined sexuality and a physical appearance full of tricks. No longer have characteristics, identity, gender: the mondialization also produced this collective desire of highest hybridizing to be a little of everybody and have a chance to become someone, to be compatible with everyone in order to count for someone. Thus we prefer to transform ourselves than to assume our differences. ‘’
I totally agree with this idea of mondialization that produces this desire to be physically alike. Just by looking around you, you can notice that our world almost relies on appearances: you need to have a big and pretty house with a pretty nice car and pretty clothes to be well considered in the society.
The article also says that the death of death of a star like Michael Jackson is not the end of a career but more the beginning of a myth.
After reading the article, I thought a while about that and I realized that all great stars like Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Marylin Monroe had been criticized for the opinions they had, what they did and how they lived their lives, but after their death, the world begins to idolize them and they become myth that never die.
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