Re: BREAKING NEWS Countdown and Reactions thread! All discussion in here. [Merged]
I am going to go all out here a bit and I am going to say that I believe the end of the song to be 100% Michael. Of course having said that, just because I can hear Michael, the vocals in question which I believe to be Michael, may not be from this song.
The verses I believe are not Michael at all.
I must say though I love the song. I think it could be hit material, and that is maybe what Sony are aiming for here. I think this is an unfinished MJ song, far from finished in fact, but in some sense, it is "too good" to pass up. If Sony could convinve everyone this is Michael then great for them.
However Sony has really done one over on themselves. I cannot even begin, in more realistic terms, to comprehend what Sony thinks they could achieve with this, unless they were convinced it was Michael, but even they obviously are not convinced it's Michael. The very fact that they had to bring in audio experts to verify it, suggests even they, doubted it too (or just were not sure). If it was Michael, there would have been no question about it to begin with.
This leads to even more questions. We have known for years Michael was in the studio working on, what I will call, "stuff". What exactly that amounts to is questionable, if far from finished Breaking News is one of them. Was most of it just experimentation with sounds/melodies? Are there any recorded songs at all? If there were, why would they need to concoct Breaking News like this?
However one could argue in favour of the to some degree. This to us, straight away, is not Michael. I mean come on, we are the fans, just how does Sony think they could fool us with this? If I were Sony, in that regard, and was not sure it was Michael, how would you get the fans to believe it was Michael, if they had no doubt in their minds it was Michael to begin with. However they clearly did like I said above having to get the vocals verified.
Oh Sony. I don't know what to think.
I am a Michael fan first and foremost, and in the hope that some material is authentic, I will still get the new album, and I will still wait for it with excitement and aticipation. For me, this is about Michael, first and foremost, not Sony. Their wins, losses, and their image mean nothing to me next to Michael.