I’m Mental for Michael
 Do you think Michael will wear Post-its onstage? |
For those of you out of touch with the activities of 50-year-old pop icons, it may come as a surprise that tickets to Michael Jackson’s limited engagement tour in London go on sale in just 3.5 hours.
I was considering signing up for the presale — which apparently crashed in under an hour last week as “more than 1.5 million people from 220 countries … with 200,000 coming from France alone” registered to buy tickets. To help me with my decision, I decided to see what music experts think about the rebirth of this icon whose talent brought so much joy and whose touch brought so much anal tearing.
The consensus is pretty standard. Even if Michael manages to keep himself together (marshal your Post-its!) and not flake out on concert dates, there is the notion that the old gray mare just ain’t what she used to be. This article from Stuart Waterman of My Chemical Toilet is particularly hilarious.
Cognizant of the perils that come with writing about Michael Jackson — deranged fans respond to blog posts in a whirl of “furniture-throwing, tits-out, knickers-off, doorstep-defecating insanity” — Waterman writes, “I can’t think of any other person who can inspire such blind, scary adoration (I’m not counting God, because he’s made up).”
I think it’s pretty obvious what I need to do: attend this concert and bask in the crazy.
