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You all complaining about this submission are being pretty ridiculous. Despite all the disgusting derision about so-called mediocre music, this is actually a bi
by dinkumthinkum 17y ago
You all complaining about this submission are being pretty ridiculous. Despite all the disgusting derision about so-called mediocre music, this is actually a big deal.
Probably the most famous living person in the world died a few hours ago. This is not just some other celebrity news story. It's just a HN submission. It's not as if someone, heaven forbid, changed the Google home page in memory of Michael Jackson, that would be crazy (rolls eyes). Furthermore, he was very talented; though such an evaluation is subjective, it seems somewhat strange and incredulous to deny this much.
I hope the people making these weird derisive comments aren't involved in any kind of social networking or related startups as probably your only hope is that understanding something about people has nothing to do with building social software for them.
- ErrantX 17y agoThe most famous living person in the world? Nah. Maybe in the past but in recent years before his trial he had slipped out of knowledge. Even after the trial he slipped back into obscurity until recently. I dont think he can be compared globally to, for example, David Beckham in modern times.
- Goladus 17y agoJackson had been famous since he was 10 years old. Sure, he hadn't been stealing recent headlines from Lindsay Lohan, but it's not like the millions of people familiar with him at some point during the 70s, 80s, or 90s just forgot about him.