Any one of you out there actually disagrees? As a New Media student myself, of course, I am already deeply intoxicated with media related etc etc and etc. If I can remember correctly, media speculation can still be so influential and powerful because of the majority of people who are media-illiterate. Hey! I’m not saying you are dumb or what k! I mean I don’t even know if I am media literate enough or not. haha! In the layman term (hehe perhaps my own definition too), it simply means we are just not logical or sometimes not sensible or sometimes are just too unbothered to recognize that certain news are plain stupid or nonsensical.

Well, this thought actually arises mainly because of the recent Michael Jackson’s death and all the uprising tributes, tabloids and discussions. Bla bla bla Yada Yada Yada. Sometimes, we should just let the dead rest in peace, shouldn’t we. Come on, quit speculating already! As a disclaimer, I am not here to judge in a sense of justifying the rights or denying the allegations…I’m just going to say what I think about media speculation itself because 1) I don’t know MJ – the King of Pop – personally, as the only song I can remember is you’re not alone (which I can’t even remember the lyrics) and 2) I am not an honours degree student so I don’t write thesis.

So there there, we have people saying that MJ’s a gay, a child-lover (k, I preferred using softer word to describe can.), eccentric legacy, and etc. (Read more…) What triggered me into writing this is actually the 80s speculations of MJ taking estrogens or even a castrado to maintain his high-pitch voice! HAHA! Of course, it is then continued with the endless WAR OF WORDS in the forums and all. Even until today, the local chinese paper still highlighted that part in a “tribute” to MJ.

Why? Because MJ is a MALE! Remembering the fact that he is neither a Mariah Carey/Georgie Brown nor a Dolphin.

HAHA! Okay lar I’m exaggerating on the high notes. But honestly, I think speaking in MJ’s kind of soft yet squeaky pitch is not impossible that you need estrogen what. I think must be because then Vitas has not been spotted yet. haha. Or perhaps Vitas also did the same thing?! =X See, I just did yet another nonsensical speculation didn’t I. haha.

Check this MV, you will be surprised. Of course, I am no musician to talk about countertenor, octave and whatsoever (see I didn’t lie, I only know that few terms).

I don’t deny the fact that I’m writing all the above bullshits with that little facts I read about. Honestly, which reader nowadays do research on the news article and their speculations anyway. And that what makes it more valid to understand why media speculation is so POWDERFUL and INFLUENTIAL! But one fact we cannot deny, without these, life could have been more BORING and I will have nothing to blog about at this moment. HEH!