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As many of you, I was shocked and saddened when I heard the news that Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest . While I was watching the massive news coverage of Jackson's, his career, and his death on CNN and several other news outlets, I realized that this is a great opportunity for those of you who write on pop culture, society, news, or celebrity articles to get a surge of traffic while paying tribute to a legendary music icon.
I did some quick research and the month prior to his death, 24,900,000 people searched globally on Google for "Michael Jackson". That's just one month, and of course that was a month before his death. So just imagine what's going on now - this month the numbers will probably triple.
Now while you may not be able to rank in the search engines for Jackson's name, there are literally dozens if not hundreds of long-tail MJ keyword phrases that you could absolutely rank for if you get writing like yesterday!
Need a few ideas?
Here's a few writing prompts...
Magic bullet articles are ones written with some sort of current event or celebrity tie-in. When done properly, these types of keyword rich articles will bring you massive amounts of traffic in a short-period of time. And while they are not necessarily "evergreen" traffic sources, it is great to have an arsenal of these types of articles in your article marketing campaign.
I did some quick research and the month prior to his death, 24,900,000 people searched globally on Google for "Michael Jackson". That's just one month, and of course that was a month before his death. So just imagine what's going on now - this month the numbers will probably triple.
Now while you may not be able to rank in the search engines for Jackson's name, there are literally dozens if not hundreds of long-tail MJ keyword phrases that you could absolutely rank for if you get writing like yesterday!
Need a few ideas?
Here's a few writing prompts...
- The first time I heard a Michael Jackson record I was...
- I bought my first (Jackson's name) album...
- (Jackson's name) was an inspiration to my life because...
- (Jackson's name) was a great example of...
- What we can learn from (Jackson's name) life is...
- What we should remember about (Jackson's name) is...
Magic bullet articles are ones written with some sort of current event or celebrity tie-in. When done properly, these types of keyword rich articles will bring you massive amounts of traffic in a short-period of time. And while they are not necessarily "evergreen" traffic sources, it is great to have an arsenal of these types of articles in your article marketing campaign.
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Michael Jackson, R.I.P.
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Michael Jackson, R.I.P.
by Mark Richardson, posted June 26, 2009
Talking to Rolling Stone at the end of 2001, Jay-Z put into perspective what it was like to rhyme over an official remix of Michael Jackson's "You Rock My World": "Mike was a superhero when I was a kid. Him wanting to work with me, period, was bananas!" Something about that line stuck with me. For people who grew up with Michael Jackson during a certain era, "superhero" seems right, for reasons good and bad.
So much of what Michael Jackson did in music doesn't seem like the work of a mere mortal. First, he broke through as a pop figure at a ridiculously young age. Child stars have been around forever, of course, but the best of those Jackson 5 records don't sound remotely like a gimmick. You believe every word of "I Want You Back", that this little guy has something profound to say about love, and he is saying it in the most energetic and life-affirming way you've ever heard. This is 1969, when he was just 11; a fifth grader, if he'd been a normal kid and gone to fifth grade. Which he wasn't, and so he didn't. His childhood was put on hold. But you listen to that music now and wonder how it was possible that a boy so young could be so thoroughly in command of his gifts.
Fast-forward 13 years: Motown's 25th anniversary special. The cheer that erupts from the audience when they see him do the moonwalk during "Billie Jean" is more like a gasp, a huge "Did you see that?" wail, like this guy had just leapt a tall building and no one was sure if they should believe their eyes. He was 24 then, Thriller had been out for four months. That night an icon was minted in an instant: the fedora, the sequined socks, that front leg-kick thing he did-- he flew in from another dimension and looked like the greatest dancer in pop music history. Superhero. He even dressed the part. Along the way, he broke the color barrier at MTV and changed the relationship between pop music and the moving image. He also began to do bizarre things no one understood that at first only added to his myth.
"Billie Jean" at "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, and Forever" (1983)
But that's the thing about superheroes: they're also cartoons. That word, too, fit Jackson to a T. He was literally a cartoon from 1971 to 1973, when "The Jackson 5ive" was a Saturday morning TV show. And then, as time went on and he attempted his own version of what's usually called "growing up," he became one figuratively. It's hard to imagine a celebrity more isolated from the rest of the world's reality. Every "normal" thing he ever did-- a kiss, marriage, fatherhood-- seemed like a pose, a clumsy gesture from someone who never internalized the basics. He'd already been a "Tonight Show" punchline for years when Johnny Carson retired, and no one felt bad for poking fun at him even before the truly bad shit happened, because he never quite seemed real.
Eventually, the mocking came easier, because it seemed deserved: from all available evidence, he did things that everyone agrees are beyond the pale. It's easy to forget now that he was never actually convicted of molesting children. That first charge, in 1993, was dropped when the accuser's family took a payout worth $20 million. There was another check cut to a mother with a kid who she said had been victimized and then, in 2005, People v. Jackson wound up in an acquittal. Throughout, Jackson maintained his innocence. But no one's luck is that bad. And the fact that a grown man who suffered such public humiliation in 1993 would still be holding hands and sharing his bed with pubescent boys a decade later, and with cameras rolling, suggested that his judgment was so skewed, virtually anything was possible. Thinking about him, one tended to vacillate between pity and disgust.
His animated life grew increasingly dark and weird-- another marriage, kids named "Prince Michael" flung over balconies for the amusement of paparazzi and sent into public with masks, pathetic spending sprees, piles of lawsuits, bankruptcy-- until it became what from our remove seemed to be a horror show. And then it finally ended yesterday, June 25, 2009, when he died in Los Angeles.
He was only 50. However they've been raised and by whom, he's got children. He's also got a big family-- we know the names of many of them-- and surely they're devastated. Millions of people all over the world have been moved by his music, and a lot of them are suffering right now, missing a piece of their lives, even if it's only one filled with a iconic pop figure. So this is a sad time. But man, and I feel guilty saying this, there's also just the slightest bit of relief: that a life that had always seemed like a lonely, twisted nightmare filled with suffering had finally come to end. What were the chances of him finding perspective after all this time? And, after chasing Thriller's sales records for so long, making that his artistic and creative aim, what were the chances of him making music he was happy with again? How does a guy who wants to remain a kid forever, who started an endless course of plastic surgeries while still in his twenties, find a way to be a reasonably happy old man? When those comeback shows at O2 were announced earlier this year, I can't be the only one who felt a twinge of something in his gut, a sense that something horrible was going to go down. It was like seeing a friend who is a recovering addict walking into a bar. People were braced for a train wreck, but not for this.
Take away the music, and Michael Jackson's life is just too sad to contemplate. Which is a very good argument for not taking away the music, ever. We're all going to die someday, too. So let's live. You start with "I Want You Back" and "ABC" and "I'll Be There". You go through the Jacksons years with "Dancing Machine" and "Can You Feel It", and then a long stop at the incomparable Off the Wall. Jackson sang a small handful of tunes with a legitimate claim as the best pop song of the past 40 years, and "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" is one of them. Then it's on to "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" and "Thriller" and "Wanna Be Startin' Something", and on through later hits: "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Man in the Mirror", "Black or White", "Will You Be There", and sure, why not, "Gone Too Soon". Michael Jackson-- superhero, cartoon, singer, dancer, supremely troubled dude-- made all this music, and it's amazing.
"When I Grow Up" [ft. Roberta Flack] from "Free to Be...You and Me" (1974)
(More music and video here)
*:http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7676-michael-jackson-rip/
So much of what Michael Jackson did in music doesn't seem like the work of a mere mortal. First, he broke through as a pop figure at a ridiculously young age. Child stars have been around forever, of course, but the best of those Jackson 5 records don't sound remotely like a gimmick. You believe every word of "I Want You Back", that this little guy has something profound to say about love, and he is saying it in the most energetic and life-affirming way you've ever heard. This is 1969, when he was just 11; a fifth grader, if he'd been a normal kid and gone to fifth grade. Which he wasn't, and so he didn't. His childhood was put on hold. But you listen to that music now and wonder how it was possible that a boy so young could be so thoroughly in command of his gifts.
Fast-forward 13 years: Motown's 25th anniversary special. The cheer that erupts from the audience when they see him do the moonwalk during "Billie Jean" is more like a gasp, a huge "Did you see that?" wail, like this guy had just leapt a tall building and no one was sure if they should believe their eyes. He was 24 then, Thriller had been out for four months. That night an icon was minted in an instant: the fedora, the sequined socks, that front leg-kick thing he did-- he flew in from another dimension and looked like the greatest dancer in pop music history. Superhero. He even dressed the part. Along the way, he broke the color barrier at MTV and changed the relationship between pop music and the moving image. He also began to do bizarre things no one understood that at first only added to his myth.
"Billie Jean" at "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, and Forever" (1983)
But that's the thing about superheroes: they're also cartoons. That word, too, fit Jackson to a T. He was literally a cartoon from 1971 to 1973, when "The Jackson 5ive" was a Saturday morning TV show. And then, as time went on and he attempted his own version of what's usually called "growing up," he became one figuratively. It's hard to imagine a celebrity more isolated from the rest of the world's reality. Every "normal" thing he ever did-- a kiss, marriage, fatherhood-- seemed like a pose, a clumsy gesture from someone who never internalized the basics. He'd already been a "Tonight Show" punchline for years when Johnny Carson retired, and no one felt bad for poking fun at him even before the truly bad shit happened, because he never quite seemed real.
Eventually, the mocking came easier, because it seemed deserved: from all available evidence, he did things that everyone agrees are beyond the pale. It's easy to forget now that he was never actually convicted of molesting children. That first charge, in 1993, was dropped when the accuser's family took a payout worth $20 million. There was another check cut to a mother with a kid who she said had been victimized and then, in 2005, People v. Jackson wound up in an acquittal. Throughout, Jackson maintained his innocence. But no one's luck is that bad. And the fact that a grown man who suffered such public humiliation in 1993 would still be holding hands and sharing his bed with pubescent boys a decade later, and with cameras rolling, suggested that his judgment was so skewed, virtually anything was possible. Thinking about him, one tended to vacillate between pity and disgust.
His animated life grew increasingly dark and weird-- another marriage, kids named "Prince Michael" flung over balconies for the amusement of paparazzi and sent into public with masks, pathetic spending sprees, piles of lawsuits, bankruptcy-- until it became what from our remove seemed to be a horror show. And then it finally ended yesterday, June 25, 2009, when he died in Los Angeles.
He was only 50. However they've been raised and by whom, he's got children. He's also got a big family-- we know the names of many of them-- and surely they're devastated. Millions of people all over the world have been moved by his music, and a lot of them are suffering right now, missing a piece of their lives, even if it's only one filled with a iconic pop figure. So this is a sad time. But man, and I feel guilty saying this, there's also just the slightest bit of relief: that a life that had always seemed like a lonely, twisted nightmare filled with suffering had finally come to end. What were the chances of him finding perspective after all this time? And, after chasing Thriller's sales records for so long, making that his artistic and creative aim, what were the chances of him making music he was happy with again? How does a guy who wants to remain a kid forever, who started an endless course of plastic surgeries while still in his twenties, find a way to be a reasonably happy old man? When those comeback shows at O2 were announced earlier this year, I can't be the only one who felt a twinge of something in his gut, a sense that something horrible was going to go down. It was like seeing a friend who is a recovering addict walking into a bar. People were braced for a train wreck, but not for this.
Take away the music, and Michael Jackson's life is just too sad to contemplate. Which is a very good argument for not taking away the music, ever. We're all going to die someday, too. So let's live. You start with "I Want You Back" and "ABC" and "I'll Be There". You go through the Jacksons years with "Dancing Machine" and "Can You Feel It", and then a long stop at the incomparable Off the Wall. Jackson sang a small handful of tunes with a legitimate claim as the best pop song of the past 40 years, and "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" is one of them. Then it's on to "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" and "Thriller" and "Wanna Be Startin' Something", and on through later hits: "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Man in the Mirror", "Black or White", "Will You Be There", and sure, why not, "Gone Too Soon". Michael Jackson-- superhero, cartoon, singer, dancer, supremely troubled dude-- made all this music, and it's amazing.
"When I Grow Up" [ft. Roberta Flack] from "Free to Be...You and Me" (1974)
(More music and video here)
*:http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7676-michael-jackson-rip/
His Death, Predicted
Ian Halperin, the writer of unauthorized biographies on Celene Dion, Kurt Cobain, and James Taylor, penned a piece for the Daily Mail in which he claims to have predicted the death of Michael Jackson six months and one day ago. It appears that he might be telling the truth. There's a lot inside the article, so we'll run it down, for you. Some of it might have full-bodied shades of truth, some of it could be totally off the mark. At the very least, though, it's all pretty fascinating:
- Ominous Prediction: "Had he not been driven – by a cabal of bankers, agents, doctors and advisers – to commit to the grueling 50 concerts in London's O2 Arena, I believe he would still be alive today."
- Jackson's Exhaustion: He was preparing for a string of concerts nobody in their right mind could've thought he could've completed. While leaving a Burbank studio, he reportedly told fans: 'I don't know how I'm going to do 50 shows. I'm not a big eater. I need to put some weight on. I'm really angry with them booking me up to do 50 shows. I only wanted to do ten.' One of his former employees weighed in to Halperin earlier this month: "It's like he's not in control over his own life any more."
- Dr. Tohme Tohme: Jackson's official spokesman as of last year. Incredibly seedy. Refuted a claim Halperin made that Jackson had six months to live, back in December. Tohme called it a "complete fabrication." An important player in all of this, if only to indicate the people Jackson was surrounded by near the end: "Tohme has been alternately described as a Saudi Arabian billionaire and an orthopedic surgeon, but he is actually a Lebanese businessman who does not have a medical license. At one point, Tohme claimed he was an ambassador at large for Senegal, but the Senegalese embassy said they had never heard of him." At one point, Tohme (associated with the Nation of Islam, more below) threatened an auctioneer's life if he didn't postpone an auction of Jackson memorabilia.
- Image Protection: Jackson had a huge collection of wigs that he used out in public to hide his graying, thinning hair.
- Mental Health: Feelings of despondency and suicidal thoughts started surfacing after his latest acquittal from the 2005 sexual molestation trial involving Gavin Arvizo. He was close to a "complete nervous breakdown." He was being fed "pills like candy" by those around him, who were described as "enablers." He was worried he would end up dying like Elvis (a claim backed by Lisa Marie Presley). He wasn't eating and had nightmares of being murdered. His drug of choice was OxyContin. Then there's this: "On June 21, Jackson told my contact that he wanted to die. He said that he didn't have what it would take to perform any more because he had lost his voice and dance moves. ‘It's not working out,' Jackson said. ‘I'm better off dead. I don't have anywhere left to turn. I'm done.'"
- Halperin/Jackson: Halperin began his work with Jackson believing he was guilty, but changed his mind as time went on.
- Jackson's Sexuality: "It is clear to me that Michael was homosexual and that his taste was for young men." He had two secret lovers, supposedly. One was a construction worker who he went on rendezvous with at a seedy motel in Vegas. The other was a young aspiring actor he invited over to his place in LA for late-night trysts.
- Jackson's Health: He had "Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency," which is a genetic condition that leaves the lungs vulnerable due to a lack of protein. He was receiving injections of a treatment made from human plasma that were fairly effective in combating his condition. Halperin claims sources inside the Jackson camp confirmed that this would explain the wheelchair and surgical masks Jackson could sometimes be seen in public with. He'd lost an abundance of weight in the last few months. People were worried.- Finances: The Bahraini sheikh Jackson crashed with after the last trial sued Jackson for repayment of what Jackson thought was his "hospitality." Jackson settled on the night before it went to court specifically so his exact financial condition - miserably bad - wouldn't come to light. The only reason any attempts by Jackson to work were made over the last four years were for money. At one point, he was convinced by those around him that he could make a comeback and "be the king" again, however.
- The Beatles' catalog: One of the more insane claims Halperin makes: the only thing standing between Jackson and bankruptcy was his ownership of the Beatles catalog with Sony. Sony's dream was to own the entire thing themselves, and could've repossessed it, but didn't because they were afraid of the bad press it would get them (and potential sales it would cost them).
- Jackson's Will: He has upwards of 200 unpublished songs, the sales and royalties of which are for his children to live off of. His will's going to reveal Jackson's desire for his kids to stay with Jackson's 79 year-old mother, Katherine.
- Nation of Islam ties: Jackson's kids' nanny, Grace Rwaramba, had ties to the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan. Rwaramba was supposedly the "Queen Bee" in Jackson's camp. The Nation of Islam supplied Jackson's security detail and started running his affairs. Farrakhan's son-in-law was Jackson's business manager for a few years, but his role diminished.
And there's so, so much more. Halperin's got a book to promote, and again, there's no telling how many of these claims are going to pan out to be true. But a lot of them are certainly strange and sad enough to be true.
The Michael Jackson story (and the story of how it's going to be handled) is going to stay a bizarre, sad one. A week ago, a Michael Jackson joke was classic if not outdated, another pop culture bar room punchline. And now the reality is that these punchlines might manifest themselves into something much more uncomfortable: the truth, without the protection of settlements and PR cover. Maybe Jackson's going to get the sympathy of a public - or a portion of the public - who went from unconditionally loving him to stigmatizing him overnight. Or maybe it's just going to get worse. This one - the way pop culture reflects on Jackson, on his music, and on his legacy - is still very much being written.
'I'm better off dead. I'm done': Michael Jackson's fateful prediction just a week before his death [Daily Mail]
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