They say that losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to a parent, but that’s clearly rubbish.
Look at Michael Jackson‘s parents. They’re living proof that the worst thing that can happen to a parent is losing a millionaire child who wrote you out of his will because you used to mercilessly beat him all the time. But Katherine and Joe Jackson aren’t going to let a little thing like the dying wishes of their beloved son stop them from getting rich, so they’re contesting Michael Jackson’s will.
They waited for 27 days, for anyone running office sweepstakes.
In the last few weeks we’ve been criticised for not recognising Michael Jackson’s genius. Well, to those people we say this – sorry. You were right. You were absolutely right. Michael Jackson was a genius. Not because of what he did in his life – we still maintain that if squeaking and having an uncomfortably close relationship with children makes you a genius then all guinea pigs should be signed up to Mensa immediately – but because of what he’s done in death.
Why? Because Michael Jackson invoked a ‘no contest’ clause in his will. It’s brilliant. It means that if you try to disagree with anything that Michael Jackson said in it, you get immediately written out. It’s sort of like a legal version of writing ‘Jonathan wets the bed IDST’ on someone else’s exercise book at school. You can try and erase it if you like, but it won’t matter because even if you destroy it, it’ll still be true.
And this is great news for Michael Jackson’s family. After all, the will largely ignored them in favour of naming John McClain and John Branca as the co-executors of his estate – so what do they lose if their challenge fails? A handful of kids that probably aren’t even theirs anyway, that’s what. And who cares about them? One of them’s called Blanket for crying out loud. Who wants to look after a kid called Blanket? Honestly, contesting the will is a win-win for Katherine and Joe Jackson. Which is probably why they’re doing it, as Rolling Stone reports:
Katherine Jackson has reportedly hired the Jackson family attorney to challenge son Michael Jackson?s 2002 will… Katherine?s lawyers were in court last Friday, July 17th, to see if they can challenge the co-executors? decisions without triggering the ?no contest? clause.
Actually, we can totally see the point of Michael Jackson’s family here – they’re his family, for crying out loud. And, true, Michael Jackson may have sensibly chosen a pair of business-minded professionals to oversee his estate, but Katherine and Joe Jackson are Michael Jackson’s family. Doesn’t that mean anything any more?
Oh alright, we’ll admit it – we want Michael Jackson’s family to run his estate purely because we want to visit the Neverland gift shop in a few years and buy a commemorative ‘Michael Jackson, King Of Pop – I Definitely Didn’t Hit Him, You Know’ T-shirt designed by his dad. Is that so wrong?
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Neon Filler says
Now even stone roses’ frontman brown is cashing in on Jackson’s death.
http://www.neonfiller.com/page2.htm#ianbrown
Vanessa says
Leave him alone ,do you people have anything else to talk about. People are dying of aids, people are losing their jobs, business are closing everday because of the economy. When he died it was a great loss , I really feel for his family to have to read garbage very day about their son who, they know had a good heart. But now its time to focus on other things .
sick of the drama
Vanessa
Anu says
WILL U GUYS STOP IT?!! ‘Uncomfortably close relationship with children’…my foot and my left toe!! People in this country are paranoid about display of affection with children, and look where that is taking the family structure. You morons do not understand what than man stood for…his gravest mistake was that he could not accept that the society will not change its ways just because of his lone endeavor, and did not realise how he was becoming a sitting duck for all the vultures out there. As for his ‘squeaking’, dont talk if you dont understand music…Michael Jackson was a genius and will always be.
JoeMomma says
Didn’t the Stone Roses and any of the band members just suck ass after the first album? This guy has a 5th album coming? Really? Can I make an album and be succsessful if only 4 people buy it?
JoeMomma says
A genius? Really? Thriller, Beat It, Billy Jean are all songs that have changed nations and enriched the human experience? I say balls to that. Pop songs nothing more, songs that he didn’t write and didn’t play an insturment. All he did was jump around like an electrocuted monkey and sing with significant ‘studio magic’ supporting him.
What he stood for? Dangeling kids, diddling kids, eccentricity, plastic surgery, being the least masculine man in existence, fake marriages, jerry curl, bad wizard of Oz rip offs, pepsi, oh and millions of moronic fans.
Elidet says
You are what’s wrong with the music industry if you think his “pop” songs are what people refer to as genius.
Ever heard of:
-Heal the World
-Will you be there?
-Cry
-We are the World
-Man in the Mirror
-Jam
-They Don’t Care About Us
You only listen to songs that the radio tells you are good, that’s why you only know of Thriller.
“Beat It” is about turning the other cheek, “Bad” is based on a true story, about a kid who leaves the ghetto to go to college, only to come back with pressure from his friends to be a thug. In real life, the kid died.
“Dirty Diana” was about groupies, “Blood on the Dance Floor” was about irresponsible sex, and “Thriller” was during a time he himself was going through paranoia, no thanks to his father.
So before you listen to what the radio tells you what is good, listen and understand his genius people talk about.
Go to youtube and look up Michael Jackson Jet interview, you will see where he gets inspired by these songs.
Elidet says
So true.
No one questions Angelina Jolie’s love for children, and no one says she wants to be black because she has a black daughter, yet the same level of respect was never held for MJ, as if it was ok to treat him with less respect because he didn’t look like what “society” wanted him to look like.
America is the only country that couldn’t see past his “looks”, where other countries could care less about his nose and more about all the joy he brought them.
We live in such a perverse world where if someone like Paris Hilton makes a sex tape, society rewards her with her own reality show. She buys a pink car and adds pink rims, and had has more surgery than MJ, but we live in a world where it’s only OK to be fake if you bleach your hair, fake tans and hair extensions.
Yet, it was MICHAEL who was called eccentric for *gasp* building an amusement park and SHARING IT withe less fortunate.
What is wrong with people that it makes it a bad thing?!?!
mst3kster says
Well stated, JoeMomma.
Tom J says
Exactly what JoeMamma said, although it’s a bit weird to see a voice of reason on Hecklerspray.
MJ says
You’re an idiot, sorry it just needed to be said.