New Michael Jackson album: "Michael," 12/14/2010

Was he going to play new (unheard) songs on the This is It show?
After hearing the new single, I can hardly consider it "better" than anything he's ever done, it sounds like "Jam" (from Dangerous) to me. It's MJ, period.

 

I'd bet mine, and other's lives, that that is Michael Jackson singing. Sounds like there's a filter on his voice though. I like the single a lot. It seems to borrow some horn bits from "Jam", and I hear a little "You Rock My World" in it. Although I will admit, as a fan, it's VERY predictable sounding. Like they went by a formula for making a Michael Jackson song. Like someone said, "Great! now have the ending go Boom! and don't forget the invincible sound effects."

Edit: Stan posted as I was typing my post, but I think he's hit the nail on the head.

 

No. It was going to be all hits (though I think the This Is It song would've made for a nice closer to the shows).

 

Predictable is the right word for it. It just reminds me of everything I didn't like about HIStory and Invincible (let's call it New Jack Whine)

 

Love Never Felt So Good would've made a great first single. sigh.

 

These songs would be much better reviewed and sell more after he died. nest egg for the kids.

Expensive studios? He'd either skipped out on paying, charm a freebie or let middle eastern loan sharks deal with it.

He loved recording, but MJ wasn't too into promoting his albums. He was 90 minutes late for the 90 second press conference announcing the 02 shows.

One of the snippets sounds like Martin Bashir.

 

I think Michael HAD to be in the studio a lot. He often spoke about how he was only every truly happy when he was recording.

One last thing I thought about the single, I'm suddenly reminded of The Rutles. How they took some original ideas, and mixed it with slightly altered, sometimes exactly the same musical parts. Only thing is they were better at it masking it then this team, and they were comedy so it was all good. And now, I've made it a Beatle thread. I'm so sorry...

 

They should've called the song Auto-Pilot because that's what it sounds like the producer and MJ are on.

 

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The "imposter" crowd think this is the singer on the track. He worked with the producer and did some MJ sounding tracks and had Sony affiliations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSKIjcuownw
Here he is as an MJ dead-ringer singer.

I did find it odd that MJ would sing in the third person and use the word "b*tches" in the lyrics of Breaking News.

 

He did swear from time to time (most noticably on the HIStory album which carries the same "I'm just a poor victim, the media are bastards" vibe) so it's not out of the question that he'd do it.

 

Isn't it sort of weird that we don't have a tracklisting about a month away from release? I mean if you're going to announce it, why not announce the full tracklisting too? I bet they're still ironing it out.

 

Agreed, on all points. The fake press snippets were somewhat interesting when they were used on TJ, but here it seems like a poor rehash, and a somewhat tasteless one at that.

 

This is not MJ : Sony got punk'd by the Cascios. This could be the biggest scandal in the music industry since Milli Vanilli.

The only place you can hear MJ on the song is during the chorus, and even that is way in the background.

My guess is that the Cascios did have some tapes of MJ singing this song, but not enough and nothing that could be released, so they got a sound-alike to sing the rest of the vocals. Cannot believe Sony got fooled. Can the album even be legally released now?

 

It's MJ, so yes it will be released. It's not an impersonator but I could understand why some might think it was.

 

I'm inclined to agree with you. When I initially read the report that the Katherine and the kids were balking at some of this, I was QUITE skeptical. Now, I'm thinking they're on to something. To my ears, this doesn't really sound like him at all. He would have gotten a little crazier on the ad-libs at the end. He always had a history of doing that but not here. It also just sounds deeper and less nasal than he was known to sound. I dunno about this...

Ed

 

Not really. What would be the import of telling us. The very idea that it's an album full of MJ stuff we haven't heard is likely enough to sell the record. They don't need to give us a track listing. Also, it only makes the fans thirstier.

Ed

 

Who is in charge of compiling this release? Are there going to be competing posthumous releases from different parties? I remember hearing there were new songs on his hard drive that the Jackson family "took". Who owns these? The family, SONY or some other third party? Does SONY still have a record deal now that Michael's deceased?

I am thinking MJ's unreleased songs could be lumped into four categories:

• Unused songs from previous album's recording sessions.
• Different\alternate recordings of previous released songs from said sessions.
• New studio recordings since his last released studio album. Would SONY own these?
• Home recordings\demos. Who would own these?

A lot of questions but I am trying to get a feel for what these releases are supposed to represent (and how they are compiled).

 

If a producer who did some incomplete tracks with MJ, then hands SONY recordings he says are both complete and the real MJ then who can disagree?

The Hendrix estate once bought a "forgery" recording. There's been bonus tracks on reissues of other artists that session musicians have no recollection and even claim to have never heard before.

Also keep in mind MJ himself used to use a lookalike during illusions onstage to cover costume changes and maybe as a car decoy.

 

MJ must have enough material...that Sony could use stuff in which there is no question as too who is singing?
This looks like a Jim Hendrix// Nirvana situation with the estate/songs.

I just have a real hard time believing that Sony could be snookered into buying a fake. MJ must have tons and tons of decent material that could be mined for a new release. I am not a huge fan, but this just strikes me as sad sad sad.

 

whoa, first postumus release and already some drama.

 

Let the questionable releases of "newly finished" previously unreleased material begin!

 

It somehow seems appropriate, doesn't it?

 

Remember the Anka publishing drama a year ago for THIS IS IT?

 

I look for a at length article in a new Rolling Stone...soon

 

paul anka? no, sorry.