Michael Jackson (September 2005 - November 2010)

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^Say you are! Say you are!

 

[lizbabe09]

Oh my gosh I spent all of yesterday pretty much listening to MJ music and even now as I type I'm watching his videos on Fuse TV. Happy (belated) birthday to the best entertainer there ever was!

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^They played 30th Anniversary on tv!

 

[kissablekae]

i worked on his birthday so i didn't really have time to 'celebrate'. my co-workers are very sweet, they made it a very Michael Jackson filled day to kept my spirits up. one of them i've known for a while, i always said he had a likeness to a rat in looks and personality. i say it with love! everyone including him agrees. i mentioned the song "Ben" to him a long time ago but he didn't know it. then when the movie Ratatouille came out, we were like "omg that's you!" my co-worker is small in stature, skinny, loves to eat but is picky, he is not a trash can or anything. he was invited to karaoke too but couldn't make it, i said that he should have come so i could serenade him with "Ben". so sometimes i'll just sing the song to him for my own amusement "(his real name), most people would turn you away but I don't listen to a word they say...even though yous a rat...RAT!" lol

on Sunday before the restaurant opened my co-worker greets me the way he usually does, saying my name with contempt jokingly. this time i fired back with "BEN", he laughed and said he still hasn't gotten around to listening to that song. a few minutes later, i walked up to him with my phone showing a picture of MJ with some rats on his shoulders and said "look at you with Michael Jackson" lol my co-worker thought it was the cutest thing, Michael was an adorable child and the rats just made that photo even better.

i let him listen to the 1972 version of "Ben" on my phone and when i came back he was like "wow i can't believe he was so young when he sang that". i wanted to say well he was in the Jackson 5 but i didn't want to press it. sometimes i really wonder how little non MJ fans know about Michael. it seems a lot of them don't remember his entire legacy when his name is mentioned. it's like they don't know how to put 2+2 together, the kid singing in J5 is also the dude who did Thriller?...the answer is not 22 . i think my upbringing was just different, my co-worker is close to my age, an 80's baby and early 90's child too. the people around me were more MJ friendly, my grade school teachers still played his J5/BB MJ songs in class even in the most 'controversial' of times. my daddy is 'stuck in the 80's', loves "Billie Jean", respects Michael very much, and is jealous because he loved Brooke Shields too

i told him that it was MJ's bd, he was surprised by the ages of when he started singing and when he passed. he asked me more about the song, i was telling him about the movie and performance at the Oscars etc.

performing "Ben" at the Oscars


later on during service, i was by myself in the kitchen scooping rice(lol) and i see the tray with miso soups next to me move i turned and there was my little co-worker, who i will now refer to as Ben(his real name is not that obviously). i said "don't sneak up like that i thought you were a ghost". Ben said "it's Michael Jackson" lol i was like "oh Happy Birthday Michael" more of my co-workers came back into the kitchen, Ben told them about the ghost thing and MJ's birthday. i said aloud with rice scooper as my mic "it's Michael Jackson's birthday, so in his honor i sing this song: Happy Birthday Michael! god bless you this day, you gave me the gift of the King of Pop and i'm proud of you today"

later on, one of the hosts was apologizing to a server, he said "my bad". the server started pointing at him and singing "your BAD, your BAD yeah yeah yeahhh"(like "Bad"), i capped it off with "Shamone!"

anyways there were a lot of random references they made through out the night to MJ. i was early shift, so when i left i said bye to everyone and i said "bye Ben!", my other co-workers were like "why did you call him Ben?". Ben explains why and they all laugh because they were like "hey that fits" lol then one of my older co-workers follows me out saying "so then who is Bubbles?", and i responded "(name of co-worker who i affectionately call 'caveman')" lol "and (name of tall and lanky co-worker who sang "Bad") is Louie the Llama!"

i love this version too


Ben: my iTunes

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^ What fun! I feel like I know your coworkers already!

 

[kissablekae]

my co-workers are a cray-cray bunch indeed, i love 'em

^Say you are! Say you are!

* does little hiccup sounds *

this song is appropriate for the time being...

Just because your army
Gives you strength and might
Truth is gonna win...wrong will
Never conquer right
Every man has the right to
Think and be free

Man of war
Don't go to war no more
Why don't you
Why don't you study peace
Man of war
Don't go to war no more
Study peace
Cause peace is what we need



Man Of War: my iTunes

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^Love that song!

mjjcn

 

[kissablekae]

^ that's so cute! it reminds me of The Halloween Tree story minus the candy skulls . i love the Mickey Mouse tee and Peter Pan cloudl!

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^You have good eye! I didn't notice the Peter Pan cloud at first

 

[kissablekae]

^ B) Michael would've loved those details

one of my all-time favorite songs by J5

Michael sounds amazing, the lyrics are so sweet and true

i always sing this song as is without changing 'boys' to 'girls'. it's funny because i always call my sisters my 'brother bears' lol. even my co-workers have caught on, when my sisters call me at work they say "your brother is on the phone" and i always respond "which one?" . my older sister said "if you keep this up, people will really think i was born a boy!"

"We're Here To Entertain You" set to old footage of Mike and his brother bears


When we were tiny little boys
We use to dance, we use to sing
Before we even learned to crawl or walk

As we grew up we didn't change
I guess we knew right from the start
We'd loved the spotlights and the stage
'Cause we were born to entertain

And when we walk out on the stage
The way we feel deep inside is something magic
When the music starts to play

my screencaps from the opening credits of The Jackson 5ive cartoon. the one of Mikey on the bike is from the first episode when they save Diana Ross from their pet snake Rosey. you can watch the cartoon on MJisgod09's YouTube channel

photos : my iTunes, my screencaps

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^ at Brother Bears

Michael in Oman (2006).

And look at this one!

images.929,dvdtown, mjstar(almo7al.com)

 

[melfreya]

so handsome without all the unnecessary Karen makeup

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^agreed! and look at the first and second one! so incredibly macho...

 

[RoseRed]

Great photos! Thank you

 

[kissablekae]

lol at the Brother Bear expression! +

the photo sessions of Michael in red plaid are so cute. i ended up using them a lot

With you I find
I can close my eyes
To the world surrounding me
And you create
The sweetest place
That I could ever be
I'm really loving you...

this song makes me wanna dance like Mad Men

I got rhythm and a whole lot of soul
I can dance I can shake it baby (He can dance)
I'm just a little country boy
Harmonica in my hand I got soulful rhythm in me
I'm a get down dancin man
Shalalala boom boom
My name is Dapper Dan

Then I saw my sweet melody
Like a song you enchanted me
And the sound of your voice
Made my heart keep time
To the music of the love that fills my mind
Melodie, you're a symphony
A love song to me
You're my only Melodie

I only want to show you
That i've learned a thing or two
Touch the one you love
If you want the one you love to touch
You got to touch the one you love
If you want the one you love to touch
You got to....


i wouldn't like that striped shirt on anyone else but he looked good in orange . i love the last one without his sunnies, show them brootiful eyes Michael!

don't even get me started on KF's over the top makeup!

photos : my iTunes
gif : ohnotheydidnt

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

+

I didn't see it that way until you said it.

at the Mad Men dances!!! (Which season is that from? I used to do that move a lot as a kid)

And your Dapper Dan pic is very appropriate indeed

 

[kissablekae]

^ same here, ah to be silly kids again!
it's from season 3 episode 3 "My Old Kentucky Home"

my friends and i used to sing "Rockin' Robin" whenever we saw blue jays... lol wrong kind of bird but we didn't curr. it's probably the same bird every time and he's probably like "ughhh i'm not a Robin!" * flies away *

yep very Dapper Dan, shalalala boom boom!

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^
Season 3 is so far away...I'm still only up to end of Season 1

Oh my manicure place was playing Rock With You today
Finally I have something to say about my everyday MJ encounters

 

[kissablekae]

^ ughh i'm stuck on season 1 ep 3

Rock With You
did the manicurist ask you to stop ~groovin' in your seat? and dancing the night awayyyy

dubs rock my stereo like


i'm taking Mathematical Ideas~ course right now. ya know the math class Liberal Arts students take just for credit but they really not gon use for their major...logic? whatttt... we had a quiz and one of the questions went something like this:
"Becky's mother has three daughters, the first is named Penny, second daughter Nichole, what did she name her third daughter?"
i wrote "DIRTY DIMEANA!" lmbo, crossed it out. no worries! i got it right, the answer is Becky

Dirty Dimeana would have been a better name in my opinion SHAMONE!

gifs : ohnotheydidnt

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^
What if Dirty Dimeana was the right answer?
And how do you know I was groovin'