The Idols have taken to twitter to share their feelings on the sad passing of Michael Jackson…Â I’ll add more as I find them…
Matt Giraud: I heard MJ’s band practicing across the hall a few weeks ago and it made us all so happy to know he was coming back to perform..sad day.
Ricky Braddy: Simply cannot believe Michael Jackson is no longer living. Thank God his music will live forever.
David Archuleta: Ah, I can’t get over MJ. I know everyone’s talking about it but he deserves the respect. I hope people will appreciate what he’s done.
Brooke White: Just arrived in Sacramento and heard the unbelievable news about Michael Jackson, sad day…..
Scott MacIntyre: My thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Jackson family. Words cannot express.
Diana DeGarmo: i’m already all weepy from Ed Mcmahon, Farrah Fawcet, and MJ. i’m a hot mess right now!
Danny Gokey: Please pray for Micheal Jackson!!!!
Anoop Desai: Michael Jackson was one of my first musical influences, and I am reeling from his loss. The man epitomized pop music
Mikalah Gordon: MJ farrah an all family involved,,, all my love an prayers. Many hearts have been blessed.
Josh Gracin: MJ!! You made a musical impact on my life unlike any other! U will be missed by many. Live on through your music King Of Pop!
Michael Sarver: What a sad day in the world of music. MJ was a huge influence in my musical life as he was for many others. Unbelievabe. RIP MJ.
Adam Lambert: RIP MJ
Chikezie: Tender love and care… MJ, the vultures did NOT win, you will live on. R.I.P.
Kris Allen: This is one of those moments in time you will never forget
More after the JUMP…
Cardin McKinney: Mr. Jackson, thanks to you Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve moon-walked in my kitchen at least a thousand times.. Youà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve inspired us all. Rest in peace, Michael. #fb
Mandisa: It happens in 3à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s: Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson. Prayng 4 their famliesà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦& 4 God 2 use this 2 show us our time here is short.
Joanna Pacitti: So devastated about MJ – Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m in complete shock!
Jordin Sparks: Lighting a candle for Michael Jackson at 10pm EST – please join. Spread the word.
LaToya London: In Peace To the King of Popular Music!! Michael Jackson.
Kim Caldwell: I’m in an airport right now and it’s so sad to see everybody that loved mj gathered around the tv. This is devastating. Say prayers.
Chris Richardson: Tears falling everywhere right how… My idol gone. Michael Jackson thank you for making me fall in love with music…
Matt Giraud: I’m sending out my prayers and thoughts to my biggest musical influence, Michael Jackson. A true inspiration.
Chris Daughtry: Holy crap!!! Michael Jackson is dead…2 icons in one day. Very sad for his family.
Danny Noriega: RIP KING OF POP MUSIC<3 MICHAEL JACKSON =(
Blake Lewis: So many tears falling, my heart crushed, my idol no more. Micheal Jackson you will forever live in my heart. May you R.I.P. With James Brown
Jordin Sparks: Omg I’m bawling right now. Michael…
Melinda Doolittle: I don’t even have words right now…what in the world?!?!
Michael Sarver: The news of Michael Jackson has sucked the life out of the idol rehearsals. I am shocked and stunned.
Chris Richardson: Timeless music doesn’t come around often. When it does you remember…Fan or Not. RIP MJ
David Archuleta: Oh my heck…. Really really sad to hear about Michael 
Alex Wagner-Trugman: I’m absolutely stunned about farrah fawcett and Michael jackson. My thoughts go out to their families.
Brandon Rogers: Totally devastated. RIP Michael Jackson. The best performer the world has ever seen. One of my musical idols. He’ll be missed.
Mary Murphy: Michael Jackson just passed away. I am so sad and crying in my dressing room, this will be a hard show to get through tonight.
Tamyra Gray: I CANT BELIEVE MICHAEL JACKSON HAS PASSED AWAY! My heart is broken.God bless him and his family.Such an unexpected tragedy.My prayers go
Leah LaBelle: Omg I canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t. Really. Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m in the biggest shock. They had just said how healthy he was. 
R.I.P Michael Jackson u have touched us all.
Felicia Barton: – please comment back with your FAV MJ songà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦.I canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t believe he has passedà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦he changed music and influenced so many with his creativity!
Chris Sligh: – wow Michael Jackson is dead. Pray for his family, as cheesy as that sounds. Someone so famous for so long.
Michael Sarver: – This is like a bad dream.
Ramiele Malubay: – I still donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t really believe mjs dead. One of my major idols you will be missed MJ
This came from Kelly Clarkson’s twitter-I’m pretty sure.
^^^This was on the msnbc page showing celebrity twitters and it came from kelly_clarkson. Since I’m not a twitteree, I could be wrong.
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She’s re-tweeting what John Mayer had to say. That’s what the RT at the front means. It’s like saying, “Yeah! What he said!”.
David Archuleta added this after his concert tonight…..
Ah, I can’t get over MJ. I know everyone’s talking about it but he deserves the respect. I hope people will appreciate what he’s done.
Kelly Clarkson doesn’t have a twitter. It’s fake!
Another tweet from Carly Smithson — Crazy night. I live about 6 blocks from Michael Jacksons star on Hollywood blvd. So many people filling the streets and playing his music
Jennifer Hudson — R.I.P michael jackson!
David Archuleta paying tribute to Michael Jackson at his concert tonight…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol885ibfyFQ
@ carroll – sorry to be passing condolences in a blog but i’m sorry to hear about the death of your friends. to you they would be more important than MJ.
Kimberly Caldwell — His music will live in forever. He will never be forgotten. But it is still very surreal.
Chikezie — Remember where you were today… for the generations that will never experience what we have through this man…
Imagine… this man could have taken any # of professions in life, but God, thru circumstances put him in all our lives in the best way…
Blake Lewis — MJ’s music will live on through all of us! We are all blessed to have been and be apart of it.
Jordin Sparks — My heart hurts.
La Toya London — Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and our beloved Michael Jackson. No more troubles in this world. May you rest peacefully.
Another one overnight:
Lisa Leuschner (helleuw) – i will never get over this… a true tragedy.
Taylor Hicks tweeted–he did a moonwalk and a bow after his curtian call for Greese in onor on Micheal Jackson….
Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m quite sure that his father never meant to do him any harm, but when you completely take away someoneà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s normal childhood, no matter how talented they are, well, some people just donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t respond to that well down the line. Lots of child stars are witness to that, and, really, MJà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s genius-level talents and the fact that he was sort of *leading* the group and was so heavily relied on as a very young child both had to put enormous pressure on him, making him grow up absurdly fast in some ways while other ways of maturing may have got hopelessly left behind and out of balance. To me, the whole à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“boyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ thing and the Wonderland thing were him caught in a childhood he never had and grasping after it in a crippled and sad way as an adult. Very sad for him and others. I hope that he came to some peace in himself in the last few years. His story has just always been so sad to me and such an ironic thing to be connected to the amazing gift of music and dance he gave us all.
I couldn’t agree more. My family and I were discussing this. My sister is a social worker, and I’m pretty sure she would agree with you as well. It makes me watch myself as a parent very carefully, too.
Granted, he doesn’t have twitter or has said anything about this news, but…the obvious one might be coming in Denver, CO (and for 2 other stops in CO this weekend; Aspen tomorrow, followed by Beaver Creek on Sunday). That is…whether or not David Cook will be doing the Chris Cornell version of MJ’s Billie Jean that he did on Idol last year.
From Justin Guarini-
Thank you Michael for inspiring me, and the world.
I got into this business specifically because of MJ’s genius on that stage. I saw him and said to myself ‘I want to do THAT’.
Truly fell in love with music and performance. I met and hung out with MJ and his brothers…Jermaine later became a great family friend…
The very first concert I can remember was 1986’s “Victory Tour” ( I still have the jacket my parents bought me). It was then that I fell…
David Archuleta — Hello. In Boston now. Listening to MJ along with everyone else lol. Gettin’ my groove on with The Way You Make Me Feel right now.
Matt Giraud — Jackson 5 and Thriller is some of the best music I heard as a kid. I’ll never forget it. There’s a lot of MJ tribute parties tonight in LA
It was an honor to record Human Nature in the SAME studio he recorded it in. An amazing moment in my life.
Anoop Desai — dress rehearsal today. still shocked about mj…
Michael Sarver — Good morning everyone. I think I woke up expecting to find out yesterday was a dream. This is unreal.
Melinda Dolittle — Determined to celebrate the lives of the 3 icons we were so blessed to have in our lives.
Brandon Rogers — In 1983 the first video I saw was Thriller. In 1987 my first concert ever was MJ. In 1993 my choir sang with MJ at the Super Bowl.
I can plot the musical journey of my life to his career. I’m still having a difficult time wrapping my head around the fact that he is gone
Tamyra Gray — Aside from Lisa (Lefteye)Lopes’ passing,I’ve never been affected by a celebrity’s death. For some reason The clouds keep overflowing w/rain.
I appreciate the honorarium the radio stations in the bay are having I’m gonna dance the night away in celebration of the music he left.
And now it’sBen.Oh this night will never end. I’m destined to swim 2nite.I guess u never know how much someone’s effected u till their gone.
Leah Labelle — Up bout to go to the venue & I really just can’t believe I’m in Boise the day after MJ passed cuz I haven’t heard 1 person talk about him…
.. Except us & the band of course. But really? I feel like I need to walk down the street & hear his music. Evry store should b playing…
… His songs when I walk in!!! I wanna be in LA!!!!
Felicia Barton — writing today…still in shock about MJ…so what was your 1st experience with him…can’t forget watching Thriller on MTV for the 1st time!
Syesha Mercado — At UCLA supporting Michael. We love you!
Still at UCLA Medical Center.hundreds gathered singing, dancing, holding signs & lighting candles.
We started marching for Michael now!!!!
LaKisha Jones — I am still in shock! Michael Jackson was apart of everyone’s family. Now I can only wonder what it would be like to see him in concert
When I was on idol I actually recorded in the studio where michael’s ( we are the world ) was recorded.
Cherish each moment like it’s your last!
I’d guess close to 60 Idols have now posted their respects…that is the equivalent to 5 seasons worth of finalists, or enough to push a single season back to Hollywood week.
Lisa Tucker: Michael Jackson’s legacy will live on forever. I love you Michael. You will never know the impact you had on people’s lives, including mine.
Jordin Sparks: Still feeling a little weird today…its still setting in. Been listening to MJ all day. Isaiah 40:31.
Kristen McNamara: Lost the greatest entertainer, that will EVER walk, sing, or dance on ANY stage. We lost a hero, we lost a legend, we lost The King RIP MJ
Paula Abdul: Pain is daunting M Jackson gave his all for his fans every time he performed. Let’s focus on the incredible impact he had on all our lives