<tt id="6hsgl"><pre id="6hsgl"><pre id="6hsgl"></pre></pre></tt>
          <nav id="6hsgl"><th id="6hsgl"></th></nav>
          国产免费网站看v片元遮挡,一亚洲一区二区中文字幕,波多野结衣一区二区免费视频,天天色综网,久久综合给合久久狠狠狠,男人的天堂av一二三区,午夜福利看片在线观看,亚洲中文字幕在线无码一区二区

          Remember the time - you discovered the King of Pop

          By Xiao Hao (China Daily)
          Updated: 2009-07-02 13:17
          Large Medium Small

          Remember the time - you discovered the King of Pop

          Back in the early 1980s, my friends and I, in junior high, were still listening to cheesy ballads and synthetic disco from Taiwan, considered as outlandish then as wearing jeans. We longed for American pop, but had to wait until high school to get our hands on a tape called American Pop that included John Denver, The Carpenters, and Doris Day's Que Sera Sera.

          Even though we doubted the tape's pop-ness, we worshipped the songs. In chorus competition, my class did serious rounds of Puff The Magic Dragon. Every guitar afficionado in school could pluck Take Me Home, Country Road. In English class we learned to sing Yesterday Once More.

          But it was Michael we wanted to hear most. The '80s was a time when China's youth was unabashedly pro-American. Many in the big cities may have had their ideological reasons; but for high schoolers in Chengdu, America simply represented progress, freedom and above all, hip-swinging ecstatic pop! We devoured news tidbits about the Western pop world - what an exciting pantheon of gods with Jackson as the King!

          Gradually, we got pirated tapes of Paul Young, Wham!, The Miami Sound Machine, and eventually, Madonna. But Jackson arrived last. In 1987, our school received our first American teachers and exchange students from our sister school in Seattle. I gathered my courage and asked to borrow a Jackson tape from one of the students. The night she lent us the tape, we settled down in the tiny dorm room and reverently put the tape in the small cassette player.

          And what a disappointment! Jackson's voice was an androgynous screech, and the beats were not danceable for those of us just getting used to disco. How could pop have this man as its King?

          I had to wait until university to rekindle my love for Jackson. Many of us, after 1989, spent our time studying for TOEFL and GRE to get out of China. The campus, and the city of Hefei in Anhui province, were pretty dead. Then one day at the rundown movie theater before the film began, the operator showed two music videos of Jackson in concert. I was instantly mesmerized - the moonwalk, the glove, and the dancing.

          People all around me cheered. Jackson was there dancing for us, his anger erupting, his body aching to break free. Soon after, Bad was released officially in China. I listened to it repeatedly, until no music could move my body any more.

          During my early years in the US, Jackson's name and voice were among the few that I recognized on the radio. At parties and clubs, I would jump onto the dance floor whenever a DJ played his song - it was one of the rare occasions where I would not feel a complete stranger in the United States.

          Remember the time - you discovered the King of Pop

          Then there were increasing rumors of Jackson's bizarre lifestyle, his whitening skin and his plastic surgery. Soon after, the child molestation charge against him exploded. Like many of his ardent fans, I believed every word he said - that he had vitiligo, that he was completely innocent, and that he was not weird, just different.

          Time went by. I watched as my king failed to regain his former glory, his face losing its color and shape, and he was swallowed up by tabloid scandals. Time went by and I began to accept that he was not merely different, but weird. Millions of albums sold and billions of dollar made, and all he wanted was to regress into childhood - that was a bit sad.

          Yet his music remained. In New York, Michigan, Paris, San Francisco, Lima and Beijing, whenever his music played, everyone would dance - American, French, Peruvian, Chinese, and me. He used to be the fairytale king for all of us. His music used to speak uniquely to each of us. Even though eventually we outgrew his pop fairytale, he still connected with us, the childish parts of us; so now that he has passed away, we are shocked but still want to dance to his music.

          Let's dance, to our individual memories of the King of Pop.

           

          主站蜘蛛池模板: 日韩大片高清播放器| 粉嫩虎白女p虎白女在线| 成人精品天堂一区二区三区| 久久99精品国产麻豆婷婷| 亚洲日韩中文无码久久| 视频日本一区二区三区| 亚洲成在人天堂一区二区| 亚洲av日韩在线资源| 午夜无码国产18禁| 久久久久香蕉国产线看观看伊| V一区无码内射国产| 2019天天拍拍天天爽视频| 日本久久99成人网站| 久久久国产精品无码一区二区| 蜜臀91精品国产高清在线| 欧美久久精品一级c片免费| 婷婷狠狠综合五月天| 国产欧美在线一区二区三| 午夜国产精品视频黄| 国产一区二区三区在线观看免费| 一本色道久久88综合日韩精品| 亚洲性日韩一区二区三区| 国产日韩AV免费无码一区二区三区 | 国产精品亚洲一区二区三区喷水| 久久99精品久久久久久动态图| 午夜福利片1000无码免费| 国内久久婷婷精品人双人| 亚洲精中文字幕二区三区| 国产精品片在线观看手机版| 免费激情网址| 久久不见久久见免费视频观看| 欧美成人免费全部观看国产| 骚虎三级在线免费播放| 野花韩国高清bd电影| 午夜激情福利在线免费看| 韩国18禁啪啪无遮挡免费| 日本一区二区三区在线播放| 黑人欧美一级在线视频| 麻豆a级片| 精品国产国语对白主播野战 | 狠狠色丁香久久婷婷综合五月|