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I wasn't mourning so much Michael the personality passing away, but the end of an era that he came to symbolize. Michael represented an innocence that no other artist of his stature could capture. His videos were clean, his music caring, worldly, sensitive and beautiful (in the latter years, they kinda became raunchy but never reached the level of raunchiness and profanity you see in todays videos). Other artists like Madonna were already experimenting with sexuality in their videos, while Michael showed that talent and hard work and passion meant everything. Thats why even people who didnt know him mourned his passing away, because while people sneered at his childlike innocence projected in his music, the fact of the matter remains that he truly meant and adopted it, and made people like myself hope that that innocence would remain.
