That discussion was helpful; I think I understand the believers’ position a little bit better. It seems to me that you’re listening to these Cascio tracks, and you feel that PARTS of it sound like Michael. The parts that don’t sound like Michael--like the vibrato--you’re explaining away with various excuses like melodyne, etc.
You can’t look at the songs in pieces. You have to look at them as a whole. If you hear a part where you say to yourself “that sounds like Michael, I can feel Michael in that line/verse” it’s not because it’s Michael Jackson. It’s not like Michael sings “you can look at them climbing out the bushes” and then an impostor is singing the line, “mama say mama got you in a zigzag” It’s just that the impostor (JM) can sound more like Michael on some lines than on others. I still don’t think there’s a single instant in Monster where he sounds identical to the real Michael, but sure, at some parts he sounds close. You can’t just pick out specific words, specific phrases, specific seconds, of the song and say those are Michael but the rest isn’t.
The song is a whole. It has to be taken as such. I mean, ANYONE could probably sound like Michael Jackson for a couple of words. But overall? It’s instantly obvious that it’s not him. Look at it this way, I’m sure you could isolate certain words or phrases from “Mamacita”, totally separate them from the song as a whole, and it would sound pretty similar to Michael Jackson.
Has anyone (Pentum?!
) tried to do that? Take some lines from a song we know is JM, and try to pick out certain parts that sound like Michael Jackson? It shouldn’t be too hard, since that’s JM’s main objective when he sings. But when you step back and look at the whole thing, it’s CLEARLY not Michael. It’s a macro/micro problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1qyHVlK5PI
This is a good example. In the JM song “Let Me Let Go” I would say that the part from 1:35 to 1:40 where he says “moves on the single scene” he sounds pretty close to Michael Jackson. Not identical, but pretty damn close. Does that mean that Michael Jackson came in for 5 seconds, recorded those vocals, and the rest was filled in with JM? Of course not. It just means that at certain moments, with certain phrases and certain words JM can do a better imitation than in other parts. Even the title of this Youtube clip: “Jason Malchi feat. Michael Jackson.” Really? What if Sony had released this track, exactly as is, with that title, “Jason Malachi, Let Me Let Go, feat Michael Jackson”? Would we be having this discussion? Would we think certain words/lines/sentences were Michael? Probably. It’s ridiculous.
Step back and look at this. Be honest with yourself. If there were ONE Cascio track I might (MIGHT) be able to believe that it was an unfinished demo that Michael had recorded 1 or 2 words/lines of, and they brought an impostor in to finish it out. Which would still be incredibly dishonest, by the way, since they said it was 100% MJ lead vocals. But that’s not the case. There are 12 tracks. From what we’ve heard so far, they all sound exactly the same. It seems far more likely to me that they’re 100% sung by JM.
I’d just like to re-iterate that not one line of these songs sounds exactly like Michael Jackson to me. It was really hard for me to pick out even one sentence of Monster that a “believer” might argue is Michael. And as a whole, there’s no freakin way these songs are anyone but Jason Malachi. I don’t think MJ utters a single word.
