I think this song is MJ, I also think Breaking News is MJ and Keep your Head up is MJ.
I have said before that i think we are hearing a guide vocal that has been manipulated in the track and brought to completion with backing vocals.
Some people have used the demos we have heard of other records as examples that MJ's voice has never sounded so 'flat' and that he always sang with passion. What you are assuming is that MJ only created one demo when a song was fully formed. I would suggest that MJ probably had all kinds of recordings lying around when a song came to him - all at various stages of completion. The demos we have heard included on the ultimate collection and special editions and leaked to the web are all more complete demos, later in the process.
For the record, I think his voice on these songs sounds good, different but good.
Now the question is why would Sony pick these tracks that require work ahead of something as brilliantly complete as Blue Gangster? I think the reason for this is that Sony wanted some tracks on the album representative of his final work even if it was very incomplete. I for one am happy for that. They are also looking to make money and are spreading out the quality of tracks over the course of multiple albums.
What irritates me slightly is people who believe that they can tell MJs voice without any doubt. If I took MJs voice in a computer altered pitch and tone and chopped it around would you know if it was MJ? No of course not. If MJ woke up one day took a tape recorder and made strange sound that he had never put on record before would you know it was him?
The point is, just because MJ never pronounced a word a certain way in one of his earlier songs, doesn't mean he wouldn't do it in one of his new song. MJ playing around with his vocals, trying new things doesn't sound beyond the realms of possibility.
Im not telling people to like the songs, music is subjective, but I would ask everyone to at least except that these vocals could be MJ. If you then except that, then it is not far from the realms of possibility that Sony could be telling the truth and not committing fraud.
There are those who claim that Mj would never write a song like this, or that Mj wouldn't have included those lyrics, or that a song sounds like a boy band or this artist or that artist. That I believe is music snobbery in the extreme, all styles and types of music have a place and a value equal to that of Michael Jackson. MJ may be my preference or your preference but it is not to everyones taste. There is no reason why MJ would not have experimented with other styles, other lyrics.
I am sorry I have written so much, I just feel that there is a reasonable discussion to be had here that is being lost in the petty squabbling. I just think people need to open their mind. Perhaps I am wrong and Sony are screwing us over with fakes, but i can not see any logical reason for it.
