Re: "Breaking News" Jason Malachi Talk Here
Thanks Earthlyme for this twitter response of Jason
. But if this twitter message is not really his then I have the following to say:
To begin I would like to say that I like the song, and the production, so I must give credit to Teddy Riley for his wonderful producing. I think Michael is certainly in the song (mostly background, the adlibs and parts of the bridge?), but Jason Malachi aswell (most lead vocals dubbing over Michael's). Before reading the following I would like to say I believe in the honesty of both Taryll Jackson and Teddy Riley on this issue. They only told what they know or think.
Just a theory, but could it be that actually Jason wrote this song for Michael and sent him a demo of the song. If I can remember correctly on 'some' mjboard 'Jason' (don't know if it was a joke or really him) told the future would tell more about his link with Michael. Maybe this is the time. If you listen to just Jason's 'Bigger Man' his pronunciation of 'man' is almost the same as the 'again' in 'Breaking News'. If this is the case this could mean different things. For example that Jason's demo is mixed with some Michael vocals, which Michael recorded at the Cascio's. So someone at the Cascio's could have wrongly mixed them together before any producer could work on them. However Taryll Jackson wrote that he was told there was only one mix of the song, while the other takes were deleted cause Michael was so happy with this performance. Taryll was also told the computer was broken where the recordings were created on, so he could not listen to them to check authenticity.
The collaboration with Jason could also mean that Michael sang the whole song by himself but in a way Jason would do it.
If you listen to the Teddy Riley radio interview, he told that John Mcclain also did an producing effort for this song. But after Teddy came with his version, Mcclain said it wasn't Michael on the track. Could this mean jealousy, or did John just realised it was fake while working with the song himself?
Another theory why it might not be Michael on the track is that there are no other people coming forward claiming they were there at the recording. Teddy told that Michael Prince and Brad Buxer always were there to record Michael in the past, so why not this time? Unless it was just a quick demo done by Michael himself. Did anybody got in contact with both guys? And what about Bruce Swedien?