This Is It

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MJ fans at the time became accustomed to Michael confining his remarks to only a few words, but Oprah's conversational style and ability to create a safe space for her guests allowed Michael to open up and discuss some difficult topics. He denied sleeping in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and buying the bones of Joseph (John) Merrick, the Elephant Man as reported in the tabloids.

Michael: It's crazy. Why would I want to sleep in a chamber? (laughs)
Oprah: The rumor was that you were sleeping in the chamber because you didn't want to grow old.
Michael: That's stupid. It's completely made up. I'm embarrassed. I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody, I was taught to love and forgive, which I do have in my heart, but please don't believe these crazy, horrifying things.
Oprah: Did you buy the Elephant man's bones? Were you trying to get them for...
Michael: No. That's another stupid story. I love the story of the Elephant man, he reminds me of me a lot, and I could relate to it, it made me cry because I saw myself in the story, but no I never asked for the...where am I going to put some bones?...
Michael: ....and why would I want some bones?
Oprah: I don't know. So where did that story come from?
Michael: Someone makes it up, and everybody believes it. If you hear a lie often enough, you start to believe it.

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That was the quote I take from MJ's interivew with Oprah Winfrey on 1993. As far as I remember since then I was becoming a huge fan of Michael Jackson.

I started collecting his cassetes, posters, and updated about everything about him. And in 1996, I cried to my dad to see him in concert in Singapore. It was really awsome. I was with my sister, my cousins and my bestfriend. I was crying and screaming as loud as I can to make him hear. It was just amazing how to see him performing in front of my eyes.

He was the man of talent. God and universe gave him everything. His perfect voice, his moves and everything.

Being a huge fan continue until I was entered university. Some friends' making fun of it and I don't care. I even use his story for my english paper. I never care about the gossips. I don't care of what people say about him. Cause for me, it's hard for being him. It's just not easy. And if he must did stupid stuff, it's just him being a human. No body is perfect.

As quoted:
Michael also candidly discussed the color of his skin changing over the years. He admitted to having a skin condition called vitiligo where your skin loses melanin, the pigment that determines the color of your skin, hair and eyes.

Michael: It's in my family, my father said it's on his side. I can't control it, I don't understand. I mean it makes me very sad. I don't want to go into my medical history because that is private, but that's the situation here.
Oprah: So OK, I just want to get this straight, you are not taking anything to change the color of your skin?
Michael: Oh God no, we tried to control it and using make-up evens it out because it makes blotches on my skin. I have to even out my skin.
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On June 25, 2009 the King of Pop passed away. Whatever the reasons are, I don't give a damn. He's dead and that's it. You don't need to say that he has been murdered or what-so-ever.

The saddest part was, it was a week before the upcoming concert, his final concert This Is It. Millions of fan were really dissapointed. Luckily they shoot the rehearse and turn it into a movie. There u can see how full of love he was, how professional he was, and such a great person he was.

I was watching This Is It again last night, with my college friends, and at the end of the movie, they were like saying,"now we know why you're admiring him that much."
I really am glad for now other people who doesn't like him at the beginning finally know why. It might be a little too late, but I'm just happy. As he's gonna live forever in my heart.

Final quote:
At the end of the interview, Oprah asked Michael, "what do you want the world to know about you most?"

Michael: Like to be remembered for?
Oprah: Not to be remembered for - what about now? Forget remembered!
Michael: Oh known for now! As to be an artist, a great artist. I, I love what I do and I would love people to love what I do and to be loved. I just simply want to be loved wherever I go. All over the world, because I love people of all races from my heart with true affection.

You're just one of a kind.
I love you.

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~i'm a wise girl who kisses but don't love, listen but don't believe, and leave before i'm left~

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