R.I.P. Michael Jackson -You Are Not Alone (tribute by ALINA)

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You Are Not Alone – Michael Jackson (Cover by Alina Smith) http://myspace.com/alinamusic http://twitter.com/alinamusic http://www.facebook.com/alinamusic When someone sent me an email about Michael Jackson’s passing this afternoon, I thought it... more

You Are Not Alone – Michael Jackson (Cover by Alina Smith) http://myspace.com/alinamusic http://twitter.com/alinamusic http://www.facebook.com/alinamusic When someone sent me an email about Michael Jackson’s passing this afternoon, I thought it was a stupid joke. “MJ couldn’t die,” – I thought. And so strong was my conviction that the illustrious Michael Jackson was beyond something as commonplace as death that I didn’t believe it even when I saw it plastered on the front page of Yahoo! Now that it is finally starting to sink in, I feel strange and empty, like I have suffered a great personal loss. Sure, the Sony/BMG people can talk about his “contribution to the culture” and “artistry and magnetism”, but somehow those words bear no correlation to what Mr. Jackson meant to me. And he meant a great deal. A lot of artists list MJ as one of their main influences – and there is no denying that his work has had a huge impact on what we know ... less

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