Man, Black Widow is ridiculous… not in a good way. Pasting on an ad-lib here or there is one thing, but there are so many… You Rock My World, Unbreakable, Invincible, Cry, Earth Song… they're all used to make Black Widow. The bridge sounds like a copy of Morphine, some of the original ad-libs (the ones not pasted-on) sound like they were heavily "inspired" by Superfly Sister… I see why the estate chose the three songs they did for the album. I don't like them, but they're the best of the worst.
When people said Ready 2 Win was a ripoff of On The Line, I wasn't convinced… until I heard the song. The theme of the song and the gospel choir are all very much the same. It's not just the chorus, its the whole song.
Sort of a bizarre situation. I don't like to say Malachi is the vocalist on these songs, but the voice is identical to his to my ears. Some of the Cascio songs don't even sound like MJ impersonations to me. If someone posted only the bridge to Black Widow (or several parts of the other songs), I probably wouldn't even think they were supposed to be MJ songs. When a snippet of Monster leaked back before the album came out, I wasn't even convinced it was a Cascio track. Sounded like one of the many, many misleading songs on Youtube posted under MJ's name, only to find out it has nothing to do with MJ.