Re: Michael - The Great Album Debate (Only Go Here if You Want To Continue The Controversy)
That's because that song was completed before he died, Bumper.
Well, obviously, lol.
These Cascio songs are the first ones that are completed AFTER his death.
From the other side of the grave?
Or by using someone else's voice?
Ok, joke aside, "This Is It" proves that they had to assemble Michael Jackson's songs after his death too. The recording conditions weren't necessarily up to a classic studio standard, yet his voice was still undisputedly HIS.
So they will obviously sound different than anything we've EVER heard before.
Why obviously? Why would they obviously ressemble someone else's voice more than his own?
They are chopped and processed, we've NEVER heard that before.
You accept that explanation along the lines that those very songs were the most complete, hence their choice to put them on the album? Chopped, processed and most complete, all at the same time? How is that?
That is why I believe you hear a slightly different voice.
I actually hear a huge difference, not a slight difference. I was frowning all along asking myself who was singing after 25 years of every day listening to MJ. Never ever have I turned my back on MJ, even during the most difficult times for MJ. Check my join date to this communty, which I actually had followed as a guest even much longer before than what my join date indicates, that says it all. Many of the fans here weren't kids or young teenagers back then, while many others turned their back on MJ and now that he's dead came back and say it is MJ's voice in those songs!
Listen to Michael on Stay, after the first line when he says something like "Oh no, now" or "Hold on, now". sounds exactly like Michael Jackson! and "She was my baby..."
"STAY"? Michael? Wait a minute. Let me explain something to you. I was able to recognize Michael's voice as a backing chorus (among other voices) in the Stevie Wonder song "All I do" when I heard it for the first time on a crappy quality radio, without having ever heard that song before and without being told by anyone that MJ was credited there. I checked it by myself afterwards in a CD shop and indeed MJ is credited.
Now, when I heard "STAY", I am sure that even with the best HI-FI equipment I would have never ever heard Michael in that song. To my ears actually the song "STAY" is the ultimate proof that MJ doesn't sing in the Cascio songs. As far as I am concerned, "STAY" is the worst example to put forward to confirm anything regarding the Cascio songs.
Is there a comparison video of those two lines?
I don't know, but it sounds nothing like MJ to my ears.
edit: Wow, every time I listen to Stay it becomes more obvious that these songs are really Michael. Malachi is just NOT this good.
Malachi is good. Malachi's voice is the most similar voice to MJ's that I've ever heard so far, but he will never ever surpass Michael Jackson, nor will he be able to fool everyone. Did you know that still today many people believe that some songs sung and credited by Malachi are sung by MJ after so many years? Observing that, we must admit that he is actually damn good to fool people so long despite all the credits.
