[menloparkbum]

he did what he loved

But was he really doing what he loved, or was he partially an automaton doing what his parents engineered him to do, eventually becoming the only things he knew how to do? It seems like he almost had no choice in the matter, and all his eccentricities were his way of coping with destiny.

[zimbabwe]

I don't know enough about Michael Jackson to be able to respond well to this, but he made his career out of it, invented his own moved, and genuinely seemed to love what he did. That's not enough to say it was of his own accord, but I'd like to think it was.

[shiranaihito]

> But was he really doing what he loved, or was he partially an automaton doing what his parents engineered him to do

Someone with that much musicality in him will make music no matter what. He's right up there with Stevie Wonder and Prince. They make music.