supermodel wrote on Jun 29th, 2009 at 6:57pm:That he was mentally and physically tired.
It's essentially a similar scenario to what happened with Heath Ledger.
As times change, and energetic currents shift, you tend to get a situation where people who were instrumental within a former energetic landscape, begin to find the current one inhospitable to them, for various reasons.
Some of those reasons are developmental; an inability to change with the times. Jackson was 50, and contrary to what the media was initially saying, that is not young. In his previous public appearance, he had been saying that his next tour would be his last.
It is also worth noting that all of his really major success took place in the 80s; there was some more music outside of that decade, but none of the rest of it was ever as successful as Thriller and Bad were.
It makes me wonder when his two other major contemporaries, Madonna and Prince will go. Death usually comes in threes, and in a way it would have been beautifully appropriate if they had gone together.