Social Issues in Michael Jackson's Songs

Introduction

Michael Jackson was vocational singer, peculiar dancer, and affective songwriter. Everyone knows him as "King of Pop music" and of course many people recognize him as a big humanitarian. I chose to write about Michael Jackson because I was always interested about him. Before I just listened to his music and love it very much, but I didn't know anything about his life, how his personality, character was. And writing this essay made a chance for me to get interesting information about Michael. We were just sitting in class and discussing our EE topics. Teacher said that you can also write about music, at this moment immediately Michael Jackson came to my mind and I share my wish with teacher. I was very happy when she replied positively.

As songwriter he used his imagination, his creation and wrote his own books. And I use one of his books as the primary source, book named "Moonwalk" by Michael Jackson. Book starts with his childhood and continues until his 1988 year's lifetime. Michael expressed all his sadness, happiness, sufferings, victories in this book. Unfortunately, there were so many sad moments in his life, media and other people made cruelties against him, they hurted him so much. Michael always endeavored for all of us, but whole life he had anguish, pain in his heart because of some people's disrespect and this is really disappointing event.

Michael Jackson's childhood was written in his book very legibly. Success was with him from his childhood even though there were barriers. He didn't afraid, he just went further and he always thought about how he could do something better than it was. I mean, if he did excellent project, he would not be satisfied, he wanted to do better. And he really did. Michael was hard-working. Because of his diligence he made wonderful creations-his songs. Songs which can treat our world, which every person have to listen and think what he or she can change, which kindness they can do. Because they are not just songs, they are great lessons and everybody must learn them.

ESSAY

Michael Jackson was born in 29th of August, 1958, in Gary, Indiana, in a very poor family. Their big family lived in a small and tiny house. But this didn't prevent their success in music. Parents tried to buy whatever their children needed to improve their ability. If their mother Katherine Jackson found out that they had an interest in something, she would find any possible way and encourage it. She could come home with an armful of books and work with each child. And children also were hard-working. Even though Michael was smaller than others, he also spent his whole day for rehearsals, because he loved music so much and had a great talent. He wasn't forced into this business by parents. He did it because he enjoyed this profession. When they were in some invited places, Michael alone was in backstage. He watched every step, every move of other stars. He wanted to learn as much as he could. This was his education. Michael said, "You couldn't teach a person what I've learned just standing and watching. I'm a performer at heart." But it really was hard for him. He didn't have childhood. All children were playing games outside while he was rehearsing in studio. He didn't have such freedom, carefree life. Michael even didn't have time for his homework, he came home from school, put his books down and get ready for studio. He sometimes felt like an old, as if he was near the end of his life, turning eighty, because he started so young. Maybe that's why he loved children very much and spent much of his time with them. He wanted to live his childhood no matter how old he was and he could do it only with children. Michael was child inside of his heart. As pure, innocence as children are. I watched one of his interviews with Martin Bashir. Michael invited one group of children to his house, to Neverland. He created there magical and fairy condition for children. There were everything for entertaining them- different kinds of carousels, animals etc. I wish every rich person have such wonderful place and use it as Michael. Michael was playing, running with them, and enjoying carousels. It seemed so pure and sweet. Forty four year old man was playing with children as if he was four year old little boy. Some children even asked him that could they stay with him and of course Michael didn't refuse. He wanted everything to be as children wish, of course with permission of their parents. What I don't like in that interview with Martin Bashir was that he wanted to judge Michael being pedophile. Martin said that it's wrong for children to stay with an adult man. But Michael replied that, Martin interprets it with a dirty way. I don't see any bad thing in telling the tales to children or drinking milk, eating cookies before sleeping. Children need love, care and Michael took care of them, he shared his love with them, and he didn't do any crime. There are people who bring harm to children, but this harm couldn't make person who was listed in the 2000 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for breaking the world record for the " Most Charities Supported by a Pop Star", who supported 39 charitable organizations. Why people are so worrying and thinking about such bad things? I agree with Michael that it is what everybody has to do- to save, to share love with our children. Everybody must have some childish feelings inside. He wrote hundred of songs about children, almost in all of his songs he recalled them. He saw them as the treatment of this world, as the symbol of purity. He wanted to give them love which he was deprived of when he was a kid. He had so many sad moments in his childhood. And one of them Michael described to producer Cory Rooney in remark: "When I was a kid, I was denied not only a childhood, but I was denied love. When I reached out to hug my father, he didn't hug me back. When I was scared on an airplane, he didn't put his arm around me and say, "Michael, don't worry. It's going to be OK." When I was scared to go on stage, he said, "Get your ass on that stage." I will never deny a child love." I can imagine how Michael pained while saying these words. He wanted people to understand him, to stop judging him in vain. Michael just wanted to share his love and childhood lost with other children. Because he passed through this and he knew how painful that was. He thought that the best way of expressing feelings and thoughts is to write them. As always Michael used his creativity and made a song to deliver people that he lost the most beautiful period

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