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最新《健康生活》杂志将MJ作为封面人物:《他需要死去吗?》文中写道:为让我们信仰他,他需要死。在现代艺术和人类精华的高度,再无人出其左右。脆弱、敏感、纯真、痛苦、希望、绝望和寻求忍耐的力量成其艺术坚守。名气,童真和媒体猎食性将他囚禁在前所未有的媒体欺凌与公众憎恶的暴行中,终其余生。
Healthy Living Magazine WHO'S BAD
Answering to about 50,000 requests from Australia to Japan, received in a couple of hours after announcement of the November issue, we are publishing online a short Preview of November Special, Collectors Edition: MICHAEL JACKSON Did he need to die?:
http://www.healthylivingmagazine.us/Articles/233/
By Aida Poulsen
Who's Bad
Michael Jackson: Did he need to die? Preview of November Special
We started to write a piece on the medical issues of the wrongful death trial with AEG Live sued by Michael Jackson’s family (which was concluded when the issue went on press), when we found the trial too insignificant, as the entire life of the superstar is an impactful health, physical and psychical subject. As intense as his dance, Michael Jackson’s life was burned on both ends at a rhythm of his anti-gang violence hit “Beat It” by himself and by the media frenzy.
Four years after shaking the world with his last move—a spectacular (as cynical as it sounds) death, both the press and us, its docile hordes, seem to have begun admitting a scent of doubt. The Niagara waterfall of ridicule and dirt, under which the music genius spent his brief presence with us, finally thinning, reveals the truth universally acknowledged: to make us believe in him, he needed to die. He will not triumph at our expense over the fact that his art will survive us all, which is not a surmise anymore, as his artistic inheritance proved there is arguably no other in modern art of the same consequence, volume and height of humanitarian essence. Vulnerability, exalted sensitivity of human nature, naivety, agitation, feebleness, pain, hope, despair and search of strength to bear it all became his artistic abode after the unseen scale of popularity, unforgiving of childlike spontaneity and unconsciousness of the media’s predatory nature, had imprisoned a 24 year old Michael Jackson to an unprecedented atrocity of media bullying and public disdain, deadly glued to the former, for the rest of his life. 
Another preview of the article:
"... Why is it only now, watching again Barbara Walters’ interview, it is not Michael Jackson but the host who looks unreasonable in emphatically formal attire—gray suit, short haircut, seemingly intended to underscore her subject’s perverseness—when she asks, rather asserts, isn’t it his “extreme” appearance that provokes press ridicule? Does she want him to dress like her, behave like her, think like her? Gray suit, short haircut? Whom she would be interviewing then, and for such a rating? Herself?
Lady Gaga, a talented and promising performer, seems to be adopting the “technic” of attracting media, only with a safety belt: she would appear before press and on stage, well, everybody knows in what, do her thing, and go back to normal, being very practical, calculating and cautious about where, how and what to say, do and wear, admirably, cold mindedly and skillfully managing her career— the very thing Michael Jackson would have found unthinkable—to be a pretender on stage, or vice versa.
Michael Jackson was the embodiment of his art; this was the very thing that gave him his immense power and the unwillingness to be dishonest offstage is probably what had killed him. It is unlikely now if he were looking back at the pain he went through and had a chance to live his life again that he would submit to what was the public’s demand and his abhorrence. He was eccentric on stage and in life, and if he had been a Gray Suit in life, he would have been a Gray Suit on stage. Above all, he believed that there is nothing to conceal because of his harmless nature and such, rather rare, characters usually tend to believe in symmetrical response, no matter how many injuries the more common result produces. Because believing otherwise would have ruined him..."
I agree with this analysis of the Barbara Walters interview, which, compared with most of the others that MJ did with the talking hairdos of the media (Sawyer, Oprah, Bashit), was one of the most 'favorable.' Walters criticized him for being 'eccentric' and 'look at the way you dress.' She also criticized him for saying the media should be 'kind.' In that interview his dress was not in any way strange--he had on a black jacket--the only potentially strange thing was he wore a hat, and we now know b/c of the burn how necessary that was. He probably had one of the horrible inflatable balloons underneath the hat giving him pain. Yet B. Walters sat in judgment. Makes me sick. The moralizing bullying "hounding media."
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