"that's not michael jackson!"

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Do you remember this? I had this Michael Jackson album many, many years ago. It was a topseller in those days and having one to show off to friends and classmates was cool. I remember pestering my dad to buy it for me the day I saw it in a record store somewhere. I begged and pleaded to no avail. “It’s too expensive,” he said. But I didn’t give up that easily. I went back to the record store two days later and bought one, with money from mom. he he.

I have lost that Michael Jackson album. I couldn’t find it in my closet or in the boxes of my old stuff stocked in the garage. I must have lent it to someone many years ago and forgot all about it. That’s a shame considering that it was one of Michael’s best. It must be a collector’s item by now, not only for the music but also for Michael’s old look on the cover! Before the bleaching, peeling, plastic surgery or whatever else!

We were talking about this album the other night. My cousin Ron was cleaning his closet several years ago when his two kids saw his old records on the floor. They asked what they were and he told them they were records. “What’s a record?” was the next thing he heard. He we go again, he
told himself. After a lengthy show and tell with his kids, Ron felt exhausted, drained. He realized how difficult it was to explain things of the past to inquisitive young children. But it didn’t end there. He just could not keep his mouth shut. He took Michael’s “Thriller” album from the stack of old records and showed it to his sons. “This is one of the best, if not the best. Look, it’s Michael Jackson,” Ron bragged. However, he was unprepared to what he was going to hear next. “That’s not Michael Jackson!” OMG, here we go again!

Ron said that he tried convincing his sons that it was Michael on the album cover to no avail. They just wouldn’t believe that he looked that “ugly”, even arguing that Michael has white skin (bleach), long straight hair and a small nose, unlike the guy in the photo! Ha ha ha. I don’t blame them. If I were in their shoes, I wouldn’t believe it either, even if it were dad convincing me. “How could you explain plastic surgery to a six-year old?” Ron asked.

Naturally, we were in stitches as Ron was relating this story.

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