re: Have you or anyone you know actually cried over the death of a celebrity?

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As someone who was born well after Thriller came out and has no living memory of Jackson being anything other than a punchline (I suppose I should remember people liking him during the Dangerous era, I just don't), Jackson's death was always inevitable in my eyes.

He was well passed the stage of self-destruction by the early 2000s.

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Age has much to do with how one viewed Jackson, I suppose. I was roughly 7-years-old when Thriller was released. As a child, it seemed to me Jackson was the be-all, end-all of entertainment.

It's not unlike how older folks romanticize Elvis Presley while kids today see him as some fat guy in a shiny jumpsuit.