Lady Gaga talks about Michael Jackson (FuseTV)

[Highway10 1,072]

when she talked about how the whole room got cold that sent chills down my spine  where were you when Michael Jackson died? i was with my family watching news 

[thierryrreiht 20,997]

I was in Times Square with my friend and her parents sitting on those little chairs and the news appeared on the horizontal displays on the sides of the buildings and we went "wait what?!"

EDIT: we first saw that it said he was in the hospital, and a few minutes later he was confirmed dead

[LynpheaStar 886]

I was in a hour long bus drive  with my class mates. We were returning from a class trip and we heared the news in the radio playing in there - we went crazy

I was 13 by that time and I remember getting Love Game sent to my phone via Bluetouth on that drive (sorry  random )

[mariomania1234 11,368]

I remember I was 14 at the time. It was the summer so I was asleep when the news broke. My grandmother knew I was a huge fan so she called my mom and told her about MJ being rushed to the hospital. I quickly got up and turned the TV to CNN. My whole family was watching the situation unfold and I was praying that he would pull through. Then Wolf Blitzer came on and announced his death. I was in absolute shock and went to my room and bawled my eyes out. It's legit one of the most surrealist days of my life. I hope no one has to feel that pain of their fave tragically going like that. The worse part was seeing his body being carried to the helicopter. It broke my heart.

 

It just made it 10x worse that he was on the cusp of the biggest comeback of all time.

[Nino 12]

I went on my computer and on msn(I was 11 don't drag me for using msn) the story had just broke literally like 2 minutes ago. I wasn't familiar with most of his work,only the hits. But you could just feel the world suddenly became a darker place without the light of his artistry through the way the news was being broke.

There was no spin, no agenda behind the story, no commentary on his troubled past. Just straight facts about what we knew at the time, it was like even the journalists who are trained to be prepared to report on the worst of tragedies were in complete shock and couldn't think straight long enough to write out a typical article about it. In that moment nothing else mattered, the entire world was desperately worried that our hero was in danger and might not live to see the closure of the public welcoming him back with open arms with This Is It. It was a dark moment for all of humanity.

[Mobster 14,604]

I was at school playing chess... The simple thought was unfathomable... It took me a long time to realize he would never write/sing/perform another song ever again (apart from the posthumous songs that have been released)... I would never have the chance to watch him live...

[Warholian 6,880]

Last day of elementary school, I was 10. It's weird how vividly I remember it, sort of like some adults would remember Elvis' death. I came in the door just as it was announced he had been taken to the hospital. What I found much more interesting was the media frenzy afterwards. The crying fans, massive flower piles across the world, the Jacksons saying weird stuff to news reporters. Last I can remember of the whole thing was watching the funeral live in Toronto. His death must've made such a massive impact on pop culture seeing how big it was. 

[FlopSlut 1,190]

I was like 13 y.o and didn't care about pop music and barely knew who michael was, so it didnt have any impact on me but RIP mikey. 

[Future Lover 2,588]

I'd heard some of his stuff but I didn't really care at the time. I sat with my mom and watched the news. I went on a trip the next day and that's all that was on the radio, nothing else. 

It makes me sad to see Gaga get so upset about this. I know it's selfish but I wish she'd go into more detail about their relationship and how she was supposed to open for his tour.

[UnculturedBigot 16]

In the summer, I was in middle school and we were enforced to take summer school and the previous day we had had karate classes, the day Michael died I was at home, sore from the day before (we had to do 200 push ups) and I was watching Malcolm in the middle when the news broke out. At first I thought it was a joke, but obviously it wasn't  

[joshdemoravia 111]

i was in the car outside of my school getting ready to go in, then when i was leaving the car, it came on the radio that he had died :((

[Zsolti 2,688]

He died a day before my 9th birthday, and I just heard the news that my best friend could make it to the party, so I literally just burst through the living room SCREAMING "Yay!" for dear life and there I saw my parents turning to me in shock with the TV in front of them reporting that the king of pop has died. 

[Killa 17,491]

I really loved Michael's music. It is very strange when people like him just die.

I remember it been shown on the news as i was cleaning the restaurant i worked at the time, was 19.

[Rebel Heart 5,142]

I was 10 and I was trying to set up the TV in our playroom so I could play some karaoke video game and the news was on while I was plugging everything in and then suddenly they cut the report they were doing to run a breaking news story on his death. I knew who he was but wasn't really a fan of his at the time but I could tell it was a massive deal

[PartySick 160,751]

I was sitting with my grandmother helping her on her computer with the news on in the background (I think it was CNN?). Suddenly, a breaking news story came on and I heard his name then "rushed to the hospital after cardiac arrest" and my stomach sunk to the ground. We were both glued to the screen and when they said around 1pm - 2pm that he had died and...wow...both my grandmother and I just burst with water works.

Then came the criminal investigation of Conrad Murray. I can't speak as to whether he killed Michael or not, I know Michael asked for those drugs, but you don't administer CPR from a bed, you don't administer surgical anesthetics outside of a hospital setting, you don't leave a patient unattended while under those anesthetics, and you don't chit chat on the phone while your patient is in the other room dying. That man belongs in prison for malpractice at least, if not, manslaughter or murder.

I was so depressed in the weeks after 'cause ever since I was three he had been such an influence and inspiration to me. All that innocence and childhood wonder, the way his music moved me, he taught me how to dance from the other side of a TV screen, influenced my decision to grow out my hair, my style, the way I speak, and the way I carry myself. That man was my biggest hero, from one broken spirit to another, and when he died it felt like I died a bit too.

Then Gaga came along and I got a second icon