Jackson: The Last King of Beauty

Published in El Comercio
(Spain) on 30 June 2009
by Editorial (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Guilherme Serôdio. Edited by Christie Chu.
Michael Jackson leaves us a musical and dancing legacy full of beauty. Beauty! A sublime attitude that mediocrity has sentenced to death. Michael Jackson, with voice, songs and dance, opens (even now) a space to the Beautiful: His legacy allows human transcendence, allows us to recognize that we are something more than just mass in movement. He, as Lennon, Rimbaud, Poe or Vallejo, has dressed the world in beauty.

I can’t think of anything more unbearably crude than a planet without art - and they want to steal it from us. Michael Jackson lifted the show to the level of beauty. And, in times of simplicity, the truly beautiful is not easily sold. Nevertheless, the pack dictates the price and "political correctness" dictates the sentence: the death of Michael Jackson.

The crowd has held beauty at the razor’s edge for a long time. For some reason the world, at the speed of stupidity, has became a less humane place. In the mean time we, the followers of beauty – against the noisy hordes – celebrate, singing and dancing, the sublime existence of Michael Jackson.


Michael Jackson deja una obra, musical y dancística, cargada de belleza. ¡Belleza!, actitud sublime que la mediocridad ha sentenciado a muerte. Michael Jackson, en voz, canciones y baile, le abre (en continuo presente) un espacio a lo bello, posibilita la trascendencia humana, nos permite reconocer que somos algo más que masa en movimiento (o en inercia). Él, como Lennon, Rimbaud, Poe o Vallejo, vistió de belleza el mundo. No sé qué cosa más insoportablemente grosera sería el planeta si no existiera el arte. Y nos lo quieren robar. Michael Jackson logró elevar el show al nivel de lo hermoso. Y, en tiempos de simplismos, lo verdaderamente hermoso no se vende muy fácil. Sin embargo, la jauría pasa factura, la falsa seriedad de lo políticamente correcto dicta sentencia: ¡Hay que vender la muerte de Michael Jackson con el polvo que despierta la bestia milenaria (que ensombrece la razón): el morbo. La jauría hace tiempo que tiene en el filo de la navaja (y de sus colmillos) a la belleza. Por algo, el mundo cada vez más -a la velocidad de la estupidez- es un lugar menos humano. Mientras, los seguidores de la belleza-de espaldas al ruido de la jauría-celebramos, en canto y baile, la existencia sublime de Michael Jackson.
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