A Pepsi Moment

Everday I check Yahoo News, just to keep up on current events. Yes I know that they don't have the best writers, and their information is very unreliable, but whatever. Anyway, I saw a story that caught my eye titled, "Was James Durbin's "Pepsi Moment" In Bad Taste?" The story was posted by Lyndsey Parker in Reality Rocks. Of course the title made no sense to me, as I don't know who James Durbin is, and I wasn't sure what a 'Pepsi Moment' was. so I had to read it just to keep from going crazy wondering what it could be about.

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It turns out James Durbin is a contestant on America Idol (well no wonder I've never heard of him). So, yeah. Now we all know who he is. According to Lyndsey Parker, (an avid American Idol watcher) James Durbin had a 'Blazing Cover' of Elton John's "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting." And it was pure madness. The dude lit a freak'n piano on fire, and was going all Hanna Montana up on the stage. There was even monkeys juggling knives, and Vanilla Ice in a giant gopher ball (some parts of this story have been exaggerated to make it better).

After the hell raising show that Durbin laid out on the frenzied crowd, Ryan Seacrest (You have the urge to buy toothpaste right now don't you?) asked him about the dangerous pyro display. (This is where it gets shocking.) James Durbin said, and I quote, "I have a lot of hairspray in my hair to keep it from jumping around so much--so the one thing I was worried about was having a 'Pepsi moment'!" End Quote.

Dude! Don't mention Pepsi. The show is sponsored by Coca-Cola. There goes your career. Oh wait it's American Idol.




But the amazing thing is that no one really cared about Durbin mentioning the arch nemisis of Coca-Cola. PEPSI (the taste of a new generation...ahhhhh. so refreshing.) Instead the whined about the reference to Michael Jackson's burnt jerry curl moment, when his hair caught fire during the shooting of a Pepsi commercial in 1984.

The Jackson Family's rep made the following statement to TMZ: "We were shocked to see this. It's nothing to make light of and everybody should be focusing on who was responsible for Michael's death."
(Huh? Dude it's not a murder mystery. It's called a self induced drug overdose. Case solved.)

Joe Jackson even added his comments (in a desperate plea for attention).

James Durbin then got on Twitter and apologized for the joke. What? WTF? Okay first of all who is the Jackson Family? They're freaking out because they can't take a joke? You know what, it was funny back then, and it's still funny today. No one died. MJ was alright. Get over yourselves.

Michael Jackson was a very talented person, who made some great music, but that's all he was. A musician. Not a god. He was an entertainer. Making jokes about him is not off limits. With all the controversy surrounding the late performer a joke about his hair catching on fire is the least of their worries. And Joe Jackson why do you keep talking to the media? Come on guy. You're the original Michael Lohan. Shutup.

The whole thing is just nutty. Grown people getting all bent out of shape over a joke. Boo frikin hoo. I bet if Michael Jackson were alive he would shake that dude's (hey I was going to say hand pervs)...hand, and say, Durbin, you rock.

James Durbin, I won't remember your name tomorrow, but keep on rocking. This Pepsi Moment is for you.