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Post by MaryAnn Layton on Sept 25, 2009 14:18:20 GMT -5
When did you first become an MJ Fan? Vote in the poll above and then talk about it in this thread ;D
Mary-Ann
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Post by GiveInToMe on Sept 28, 2009 20:27:47 GMT -5
I have two stages...... Stage 1: I first became a fan with the "Off the Wall Album".....it kept going with "Bad". One of my Michael's favorites songs ever is "The way you make me feel".... I loved all the "Thriller" videos on MTV but never really bought another record. After that I didn't follow too much...well, I loved "Black or White" but in the 90's I moved to Mexico and for some reason lost track of him.....coincidentally, at the begining of this year, someone remind me of one night long time ago in a bar in New Jersey having so much fun with friends and dancing "The way you make me feel". With that memory I remembered how much I used to like him and I took up again his music and start listening to him again.....then came june 25....
Stage two: after he passed away I started to "know" him better, the person and know more about the artist, and humanitarian, etc. I discover so much of his music in the 90's and 2000's for the first time, some songs I kind of hear before but didn't know or didn't realize was his....and some others were new to me.....I became a fan again! but this time is for good...
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Post by Hayat on Oct 7, 2009 12:56:53 GMT -5
Goodness.. I remember being 6 years old... was over with my family at an uncle.. My nephew showed me the Moonwalker video game. Just my look at the picture got me. I started searching stuff about this 'Michael Jackson' fellow. The more I discovered, the more I got hooked on him. There is not ONE memory of my childhood that I can't connect with him. I grew up with him.. Then, I think by the age of 17, I stopped being 'crazy'-fan, and began to live, you kow, social life, 'boys'.. hahah! I never stopped loving and caring for him though. Never. People who knew me, knew I loved Michael.. I even danced like him, well I encorprated his dance in my bellydance at parties haha! Then came that dark day... God, I can't explain what I felt and still feel... Twenty years after I first 'met' him, he left... He passed away... I really was lost. I began to watch all his video's, buy everything I could get my hands on, kind of really crazy... I even bought two hats like he wore.. I'm still buying stuff, I just want to have all these dvd's and cd's so I can really keep them and share them with everyone around me.. Show them, who he was.. What he stood for... There are so many thing I didn't know about him before, when I was younger I just kinda looked at the 'star'.. Now I see the sweet, innocent, humble, genius, loving, caring, ... man he was. And he still inspires me. I will always and forever love him, just like Give in to Me said, I 'll never stop anymore! I'm his fan for goooooood. I want my kids - if I ever have any - to see the man their mommy first fell in love with.... I've already teached my cousins (age 3 and almoust 2) to say his name: Michael!! hahah so sweet when they say it and recognize him... I bet he'd smile if he heard them..... big hugs from Belgium!
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Post by MaryAnn Layton on Oct 7, 2009 13:06:06 GMT -5
I love your story, Hayat! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by jacque on Oct 10, 2009 22:32:16 GMT -5
I think I've mentioned some of this in another thread somewhere, but I'll say it again! Since I am just a little older than Michael, I was just starting out as a new wife when Michael's "Off the Wall" album came out. I was busy with my new life and don't even remember if I actually saw Michael doing his famous Moonwalk on Motown's 25th Anniversary show (yes, I know - shocking!). I was off in my own world and we didn't get cable TV until much later, so I never saw all of Michael's innovative and awe-inspiring videos until after his death. (I think I only saw Billie Jean and Black or White before Michael was gone too soon). All I ever heard about Michael was little bits and pieces on the news, stories twisted by the media. I didn't know hardly anything about the allegations in 1993 and didn't know much of anything about his trial in 2005. I did hear that Michael was acquitted of all of the charges and remember feeling a vague sense of relief, but that was it. Then June 25th came. I was on vacation in Florida with my husband and some friends. We had driven from Marco Island to Ft Myers to visit the Edison and Ford Estates and Museums. Afterwards, we went out to a late lunch/early dinner at the Elephant Bar restaurant. Upon coming outside, my husband's best friend turned to us and said that he had just read that Michael Jackson was dead on his Blackberry. I remember saying something like "No way!" or "You're kidding me!" and that was it. Back at the house we were staying in, our friends' 13 year old son said that he was "glad" Michael Jackson was dead because he was a "bad person." His mom said that he shouldn't say such things, even about people that aren't good. Then she said to me that her son was too young to remember anything about Michael except the charges of child abuse, the trial, and his weird lifestyle. This really got me to thinking, as it had really upset me that our friends' son had said. It hurt. And it wasn't fair, I thought. When we returned home a couple of days later, I started searching for anything about Michael on the Internet (thank GOODNESS for the Internet!). I watched his videos, listened to his music, looked at photos, read fan forums, listened to his speeches, read all about Michael's humanitarian efforts and what a genuinely caring person he was and..... I fell completely in love with him!! I started buying his books, tribute magazines, CD's (all we had was the Thriller LP which my husband had gotten a year ago from his best friend, who was getting rid of stuff at his mom's house) and DVD's. ANYTHING Michael related! When I fell in love with Michael, his music, and his message, I also fell into an indescribable grief over his passing. I couldn't explain it to myself, let alone my husband. I couldn't explain why I felt there was suddenly a big hole in my heart and soul that nothing could fill. I really felt like I was losing it and there was no one whom I could even talk to about it, because no one around me had these feelings, so no one understood what I was going through. Then, while searching for a copy of "Dancing the Dream", I discovered our very own Poetic Owl and the rest is HIStory, as they say! I found all of YOU to help me and support me through this inexplanable grief. This forum has really been a lifeline for me! God bless all of you!! As Hayat said, I will always and forever love Michael and I'm his fan for good! I love all you more! Jacque
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Post by MaryAnn Layton on Oct 11, 2009 10:54:11 GMT -5
Thanks so much for sharing that, Jacque! We really know how you feel and what you're going through. You were missed at yesterday's Skype call, but I hope that you felt Michael too, and our warm wishes for you.
I love you more,
Mary-Ann
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Post by mirror4change on Oct 12, 2009 11:34:19 GMT -5
I became a fan of sorts when I was young. I used to watch their cartoon show- LOL I used to watch the Osmonds when ever they were on TV and then I discovered the Jackson 5 and thought Michael was so much more awesome than Donny! I used to have one of those fan magazines- Tiger Beat or something like that that was totally devoted to the Jacksons- oh how I used to look at it all the time and day dream! LOL Then as I got older, Thriller came out and I was hooked again. I used to exercise to it and my family thought I was a bit nuts- oh well
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Post by MaryAnn Layton on Oct 12, 2009 11:55:26 GMT -5
Yes, yes I remember Tiger Beat Ahhh good memories. I was crazy about Donny, with his pictures on my wall, and loved the Jacksons too.
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Post by maviemichel on Nov 29, 2009 20:41:58 GMT -5
Michael Jackson has been the soundtrack for most of my life. When I was 13 he sang Who's Loving You and my cousin, friends, and me feel out on the floor. That was the first time I ever did that. When my daughter was born I rode to the hospital in a convertible with Got To Be There blasting. On my twenty-something birthday I remember the best b-day party I ever had dancing to the Off the Wall album. I saw him in concert 4 times and couldn't holler and scream because I was so entranced by him all I could do was move my body and pretend like I was up there with him. Later I thought he was the finest man that I ever saw and I still feel that way. Michael jackson the fabirc of my girlhood fantasies and soundtrack to my coming of age.
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Post by karencanada on Nov 30, 2009 0:03:46 GMT -5
Maviemichael and everyone else who has posted here...just great to read your stories!! i only found time to visit this page today thanks to mavie being one of the last 50 posts, lol. I love your story mavie! especially about driving to the hospital in a convertible ! What a great image that creates for me! You got to see him in concert four times! ohhhhhh....wow. I think I would be speechless too. Hayat any chance we get to see a belly-dancing-with-MJ-moves video someday? that would be awesome! pleeeease ? lol! Thank you everyone for these stories...they create the threads that bind us together
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Post by MaryAnn Layton on Nov 30, 2009 9:47:13 GMT -5
Welcome Mavie! Please tell more about the concerts you went to... where and when??? WOW
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Post by catharina59 on Nov 30, 2009 16:34:05 GMT -5
Mavie bienvenue!
It is really fantastic that you have seen him four times in concerts; The energy must have been overwelming I would have been there also, for just one time, lucky girl! All the others thank you for your stories; mine is lke Jacque's one; after his passing away i rally looked to net and i discovered bit by bit, piece by piece a wonderful extremy exiting humaqn being and I fell in love with hilmm and i think, dream, sing, laugh, cry for happines now, luckiky it has changed a bit and now I also talk to him and ask hilm to let me feel his energy better and I'm more happy now, i wuill work it out; the canneling stories of nut has inspired me a lot and also the channeled messages of cherokee billy and bonnie vent; I do the exercice of love nut has written about, every day atleast one time and it feels so good. thank you for that!
Love you all!
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Post by Norma on Jan 19, 2010 20:32:56 GMT -5
When I was young... I thought he was the hottest thing I'd ever seen lol... I really think he was my first love...I was only 12... He is a yr younger then me and I have always liked younger men lol... But to listen to him sing those songs thinking how can he feel this way and be so young...The emotion in his music made me be in AWWWWWWWE...You know what I mean?? When he sang he made me cry...Even back then... I had his pictures all over my walls from ceiling to the floor and on the closet... I got them all from 16 and tiger beat... You know what is funny... A couple of yrs ago my friend and I were talking about old momento's and I dug my box out and we went through it... I had an old 16 magazine in there... We were just crackin' up... Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, some kid from HR Puffin' Stuff can't remember his name lol... but no pictures of Mike lol... Some articles were left in it tho lol... I know I have said this before...He has always been in my life...In all aspects of it... With him gone...It seems so hard not to have him in my life... I was sooooooo looking forward to him coming back... When he made his announcement last March... I was soooo happy...
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Post by dadgoneitbaby on Jan 26, 2010 2:54:59 GMT -5
My first introduction to Michael was via the Sunday night ritual of watching The Ed Sullivan Show. At first I liked the energy of this “boy band,” and they were cute, but their music wasn’t quite to my taste. Then…they did Smokey Robinson’s song, “Who’s Loving You.” I just loved Smokey Robinson (still do!), but this little kid lead singer out-sang Smokey on Smokey’s own song! I was shocked, a little confused and even a bit angry about it. Still I didn’t become a fan back then, mostly because Michael’s voice was so high that it physically hurt my ears (I’ve always been somewhat sensitive to high pitched sounds.). But I tucked away that memory of Michael out-singing Smokey, knowing he might really be something when he grew up.
When he grew up, “Off the Wall” came out about the time that I married, and my husband and I had a cassette tape of it that got a lot of play. We liked the jazzy groove of it. And we adored “Thriller” when it came out, the music and the video; we wore out one Thriller cassette on road trips.
In late 1983 my husband had a major health crisis, and frankly, I didn’t pay much attention to anyone’s music during the years that I was caring for him. After he died, I pretty much only listened to jazz and classical music for several years. When I started listening to more pop music, MJ wasn’t on my “playlist” except that somehow I heard “Black or White” and was impressed.
But I did hear and read the media reports of him, and was quite irritated because of my intense feelings about rumor-mongering, my gut sense that he was sincerely good-hearted, that he wasn’t guilty of anything except perhaps gullibility, and my belief that there is nothing wrong with a little non-conformity as long as no one is hurt.
Given that I really hadn't followed his music, the little ping of anguish surprised me when I heard the radio announcement that MJ had died. Still I deliberately tried to ignore the "hoopla" around his passing...until I found myself home recovering from the H1N1 virus on the day of the public memorial, and in a fit of boredom, turned on the TV to watch the last half of it. I dissolved in tears. In the next days I managed to return to my aloofness about Michael's death, until the aloofness was shattered by rage caused by people - and people close to me - saying such disdainful things about him. Then I started really trying to get to know about him. By the end of July I was listening to his music almost exclusively, reading about him, and became totally enchanted. So I guess that makes me a fan NOW… and he makes me want to dance.
- dgib
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Post by GiveInToMe on Jan 26, 2010 9:46:14 GMT -5
Dgib,
I love your story, very interesting. Sorry about what you went through with your husband.
I guess most of us are on the same track. We re-discovered Mike after his passing. Very interesting as well. I have no doubt in my mind that this is the way it had to be. He had to leave this plane in order for us to be "awaken" and hence, continue with his mission at a global scale....we needed to awake to LOVE and what a better human being to achieve it than Michael.
Everything makes so much sense. God bless him forever.
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Post by mjblackorwhite on Sept 21, 2010 16:32:00 GMT -5
I honestly have to say I became a fan as far back as I can remember: 3 years old in 1988. I am sure I loved him even before that but my memory doesn't go any further back. 3 major memories stick out for me during that year of my life. I remember first seeing MJ in the video for "Bad" and it was love at first sight! I became a HUGE lover of Michael. 2nd memory is of me and my 2 older siblings playing the "Bad" album over and over again in the family room trying to imitate Michael. My brother had no leather studded jacket so he used his jean jacket and was copying MJ's dance moves in the video. I also remember me and my older sister fighting with our brother because he wouldn't let us listen to "The Way You Make Me Feel". He kept playing "Bad" over and over again! LOL And the 3rd memory is my family going to Disneyland in the summer of 1988 and we went on "Captain Eo". I have a funny story about this. Now me being 3 and a half years old at the time I believed that when my family said we were going to see Michael Jackson, I really thought we were going to see Michael Jackson... in person! When we got to the ride and I realized it was a movie! Not Michael in person I had a major fit and was crying my eyes out! LOL Once I got inside and the movie started I calmed down and became happy as a clam! LOL Unfortunately I don't remember Michael at all in CE, I just remember the robot changing into a drum, The Supreme One's lair, and Fuzzball waving goodbye at the end. And THANK YOU GOD! I still have the Fuzzball stuffed animal my brother got from when we went. And it still looks brand new! I have since seen "Captain Eo" 9 times since it's re-release of this year. <3
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Post by jester7love on Oct 3, 2010 19:34:22 GMT -5
I became a fan when I first saw a video of him dancing, which was Remember the time. I always knew about Michael Jackson, and I always was interested about his life. But when I started to realize how good of a dancer he was, and how he dressed I was addicted. It seemed to me he could not get any better, but knowing Michael Jackson he did in EVERY SINGLE EXPRESSION!
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Post by judith51 on Oct 5, 2010 11:50:20 GMT -5
I remember moving and groovin to MJ in the seventies. Little Michael with his awesome outfits and wild fro on posters. Now it seems like an eternity ago as I count the grey hair in my eyebrows - yes snow on the roof , too. Oh, how time flies! The passage of time thankfully brings a healing of the heart with or the passing of Michael. I still feel like my heart sank like the titanic when he died, but I know he would want us all to carry on. So, carry on everyone and be happy. We will never forget you and love you eternally. Peace brothers and sisters, Judith
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Post by mrscsparkes on Nov 18, 2010 19:14:30 GMT -5
for me it was in 1986 (I was 1 year old ) well I couldn't exactly have become a fan much sooner could I? lol Michael has always been the most very important man in my life he always will be & before anyone asks yes I've had a crush on him when I was about 10 i think?! it lasted a few years until i fell in love for the 1st time & even though I've had a 2nd love & now I'm on my 3rd (& hopefully final everlasting love) I will always have a huge spot for Michael in my heart that'll always be the case
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Post by pytrissa on Jan 26, 2011 16:46:17 GMT -5
I became a MJ Fan at the tender age of 6 I remember seeing Micheal on the tv when thriller came out I found myself glued to the tv and couldnt get myself off of his dance moves and charm and then there is that smile that would melt any 6 year old heart When his bad album came out I was then hooked lol I remember taking the album record to class and presenting MJ as my boyfriend lol.. I would have to say he was my frist crush... and years later my dad would get every MJ album that came out because just a decacde prior he remembers Micheal when he was a little boy preforming at the theatre in chicago in the jackson 5 days... so I have loved him then and I still love him and miss him everyday now
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Post by steffymjlove on Jan 27, 2011 17:56:22 GMT -5
The year was 1990. I was 5 years old. I idolized MJ and Janet... Bad was the first album I ever got. My mom got it for me for Xmas. I've been an MJ fan for 20 years. Always loved him. ~MJ eternal~
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