That's it, for the farewell party

This week the MJ documentary was released, the capital suffered a large-scale cooling, but this did not seem to affect the enthusiasm of fans. The fourth time I watched it was at Wanda imax in Shijingshan, at 9:40 p.m., it was past 11:00. Such a remote venue is still 60% of the audience, and most of the film applauds, the end of the film, etc., are very tacit. When the lights came on again, I looked around and saw a lot of familiar faces—not the first time everyone saw it.

On the day of MJ's death, I was chatting as a guest on a certain website, and Mr. Hao Fang, who went with me, said a sentence: "Actually, musically or culturally, MJ's peak period has already passed, and he has ended. "(Effective) Although the words are cruel, they hit the nail on the head. Many cultural icons have actually faced this problem. Some die or retire in their prime, becoming legends. Such as Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain and Teresa Teng, Liu Wenzheng. Others have to go through all kinds of hardships in a long life, which is embarrassing, such as Leonard Cohen, who fainted on the stage at the age of 75 and still has to go on tour to make money because of his abducted property.

And MJ, it's hard to say what kind of him he is. For this era, he still has symbolic cultural significance and commercial value. Pop music culture has so far not exceeded the boundaries of what he has shown, and the concert designs in this film are still the most groundbreaking and innovative audio-visual feasts. Perhaps, this concert was originally just a comma in his life, but unfortunately it ended unexpectedly due to excessive commercial pressure.

Fans' consumption of idols will never end with the disappearance of idols, but will intensify, especially after such a legendary departure as MJ, in the face of such a movie. After watching it for the first time, my MSN signature changed to: "Please go to the theater and watch this movie again and again until all your pocket money is spent, for this farewell party. Don't stop, cause u'll never get enough." The

next day, MJ's former friend Elizabeth Taylor said something similar.

I think that's the only way all those who love him can think of to get close to him collectively.

In history, there have been many great pop artists who have died young, such as Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix... But the death of MJ is the number one Chinese fan This sad memory is shared with the whole world. Starting from this movie, MJ will also officially "rank in the fairy class" with several others and become one of the forever money-making machines of popular culture business establishments.

There is a group of fans who love MJ established a website called "this is not it.com". Their main purpose is to boycott SONY, AEG and this film, because SONY and AEG put him under too much pressure, and finally forced MJ to death, and now he wants to make money. According to reports, AEG sold the material to SONY for $60 million, and SONY will relied on this film to earn $600 million at the global box office.

I don't know how effective these fan calls will be. But even if they boycott the movie, these fans will still continue to consume MJ's other things -- whether it's records, news, or whatever. In fact, MJ is well aware of what he can bring to his fans and to the world. At the end of the credits, he says, "It's a great adventure. The audience needs to escape from reality, and we want to give them an artistic experience they've never seen before." Here the meaning of life is sought, and the audience needs to escape from reality. But when MJ faced the world, there was nowhere to escape, there was no Neverland (never land) he wanted.

for The Beijing News.

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