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Look, I was a HUGE Michael Jackson fan when I was a kid; I bought all of his tapes as soon as they came out and wore more than a few of them completely out. Bu
by icey 17y ago
Look, I was a HUGE Michael Jackson fan when I was a kid; I bought all of his tapes as soon as they came out and wore more than a few of them completely out.
But when you look at these things in comparison:
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and
RIP Michael Jackson
It just seems out of place. Clearly it's important to everyone here, given the sheer number of submissions it's gotten. I guess things have just changed here, that's all.
- axod 17y agoMJ died today. The rest of the usual HN fodder will still be around tomorrow. The chances of him dying 2 days in a row are slim.
- icey 17y agoI don't discount the importance of it. I am just questioning the relevance of it.
- thingie 17y agoI guess there are enough pop singers to die in a row to keep HN cluttered with news about them for quite a long time.
- axod 17y agoI expect MJ's death will open the flood gates for 'copy cat' pop singer deaths...
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- dinkumthinkum 17y agoIt's just hand-wavy to say that any exception leads to a slippery slope or opens the flood gates.
- aristoxenus 17y agoMaybe it depends on how old you are: to some of us, this guy dying is almost like Earth being hit by an asteroid. He's deep in the psyche of a lot of people on this planet, and it sortof transcends "topics".