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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
sitting respectfully isn't weird.
at the Motown museum people were partying- that was weird. I guess singing his songs along to loud music could be seen as a celebration of his life, but it seemed wrong.
what I thought off was the TV coverage that focused on how great he was. they kept interviewing celebrities that knew him, and forgot that for the past 15 years their networks had uniformly mocked him.
I'm not saying they shouldn't have mocked him, but why pretend they didn't now?
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I just don't get why people sit around like that. Somehow the people singing along to his songs makes more sense to me. I didn't know the man but I know the music and that's what I want to remember. And it is danceable music so I guess what the people at the Motown museum did makes more sense to me than sitting around a star on the sidewalk. Celebrate his music as a way of honoring his death.
And when people die, lots of times the bad stuff gets ignored. My one uncle got crazy and mean as he got older. At his funeral people skipped that part of his life and talked about his younger uncrazy and nice days.
