it looks like it's slowly sinking in to everybody that sony is pulling a stunt here.
for those who do not see the motives and mechanisms: michael jackson's musical heritage is probably the most valuable content of any single singer and sony music paid a lot of money for it. but there is one BIG PROBLEM: what they have is tons of fragments, vocal takes, and demos, hundreads of those. probably much more than ready to release tracks that were polished back then by michael himself. so what goes on in sony's mind is this: if we manage to somehow manage to put those musical fragments together, we can make far more money. it's basically like a drug dealer that is stretching the dope by mixing in a substitute. and this method is being done especially on the upcoming record because they want to profit from the power it carries by being "michael's last recordings". unfortunately michael's last recordings are very sketchy. a track done by michael shortly before he died has more selling potential than a track from 1992. i'm not saying that there aren't any great unrelaesed songs in the vaults. i'm sure that there is amazing stuff like "men in black" and others from the 90s and invincible recordings. but those are few compared to the mass of unfinished material and those will hopefully be out one day. but most likely on releases like invincible10 or other packages. if we are lucky they make up their mind to release an album of outtakes, combining works of his entire career.
But: we need to remember that the majority of sony employees is going through the same process of finding out just as we do. of course the decision to add an vocalist on the cascio rcordings has NOT been openly communicated. there is big drama going on behind sony's doors right now, all over the world.
i have not been a sony hater and i am aware of the fact that this had been the decison of very few executives. but that is sony's self-inflicted problem now.
i take this as the biggest scandal in the history of pop music ever and it needs to be dicussed. even if it does harm the sells of "michael". i hate to say it but i just hope that the big media outlets will pick this topic up and start to ask questions and thereby pressure sony so that they openly talk about their procedures.
if they want to mix and alter the stuff, ok, it's kinda fair for they bought the rights to it can use it for whatever purpose. i won't buy it but some of you might still enjoy it and be really happy with a catchy pop song. it's fair and up to the consumer. but what is not fair is LYING ABOUT IT.
