Having read your post here, I think you need to check your sources. This rider is actually for Michael Jackson’s residency at the O2 centre in London. I should add that if you were a touring musician, you would understand that the host of doctors, massage therapists and cooks etc are NOT just for Jackson – but for the team of musicians, dancers and roadies who put the whole show together. As you should really be able to imagine, if a dancer or musician injures themselves on or off stage, it has to be dealt with swiftly. The cooks will be working for the entire team as well, which will probably number about 50 people in all. As far as Jackson himself is concerned, he will be singing and dancing for almost 2 hours every 2 days. Again, if you were a performer, you’d realise what an enormous strain this puts on your body. Millions of pounds rests upon these shows; the local economy is receiving a huge boost as a result of the jobs created by this event, and so frankly, Michael Jackson is in an incredibly responsible position: many people’s careers are based upon how these shows go.

As far as Bling H2O is concerned, frankly, if this is his poison of choice, good luck to him – if you had to go out there to entertain 20,000 people for just one night, I think you’d find yourself asking for many more unreasonable substances to keep you going – for a much higher price.

Your article is ignorant and stupid and shows absolutely no realisation that the media continues to swerve public opinion towards being crass, flippant and litigiously slanderous.

classy… you are wasting your time trying to explain to these eco-hypocrites. michael is probably sipping an ice cold bling right now. he’s a closet blingaholic.

Hey, tap is good enough for me. If I’m going to have a bottled beverage, it’s going to be Honest Tea–and I’ll recycle the bottle afterwards.

I don’t do bling.