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At first I thought it was hype…….that Michael Jackson was having back issues again….that FOX news had embellished the news once again …………if it bleeds it leads……..not that I watch FOX news and not that FOX is the only media outlet guilty of this. Then I thought all the morbid one liners……if it was true. Remember….wicked sense of humor and can sometimes be offensive……Then when I saw a few videos…..I got sad. It always takes me a bit for the severity of a situation to hit me. Being a product of the 70s and 80s…….who liked to move her body…….MJ was a huge influence in my life. He was there in college to groove to…….my college room mates and I knew EVERY word. Between the Off the Wall Album……….yes ALBUM, not CD…….and the Boston album……we danced to them pretty much every day. We loved MJ so much that we even used the Off the Wall album as a poster. 
Today in my step class, I used a CD that had Billy Jean on it. It was at the end of our cardio. My Friday class is a great group. Fun, relaxed, full of happy people. Billy Jean comes on and the class erupts in to whoops and hollers…………..then it got silent while we worked…..but not for long thank God, because I just knew I was going start tearing up….I don’t think I was the only one. The moment was so perfect. And If things couldn’t have gotten better……my favorite Elvis song came on just in time for Abs. (a little less conversation, a little more action)
Since the CD was such a hit in my 9am class, I thought I should also use it for my 10am water class. Towards the end of class Billy Jean comes on. They whoop it up………I turn the volume up on my tiny little boom box and then…………….
it went silent…………the batteries died right in the middle of Billy Jean! So odd……….so weird!
Rest in Peace MJ.
And let us not forget Farrah……….loved her…….and tried to have Farrah hair.
