A CHALLENGE AND A PROOF
Many expressed their respective opinions. Now we really need some facts.
Here is one of them: when I first listened to Phillinganes version of "Behind The Mask" I already tried to imagine Michael singing the song. I liked the song, but the voice was just plain and too much ordinary, despite phillinganes huge talent. Even Eric Clapton's version has the same effect - complete flatness. I could compare it to "flat water".
Out of experience as a MJ fan I knew that if MJ sang it his voice would bring some freshness on that song. Something like "sparkling water" or in other words his so recognizable husky voice at times. And as a matter of fact, you can clearly hear that Michael sings the song with that spark that we all fans know very well and what actually makes Michael's voice so special.
Now, we've all heard many imitators trying to reach high pitches and have the same voice timbre and sing as high as Michael. Indeed some imitate him quite well, we must admit it, since they can fool non fans and even some MJ fans. I am not necessarily talking about Jason Malachi's voice in some of his songs or in some parts of his songs, but also about artists such as Tom Fox in the song "Wayfaring Stranger". For quite a long time many MJ fans believed it was MJ singing "Neverland Landing" or another Michael's unreleased song.
However, even if some fans have been fooled by some artists reaching high notes and having almost the same voice timbre as Michael, to this day I have never heard any imitator being able to imitate Michael's husky voice or what I like to call Michael's "sparkling" voice.
Clearly Michael does not sing in every song with his "sparkling" voice, but when he does it, it is mostly on his fast songs.
When the supposed Michael sings Monster or BN, when you most expect to hear that spark in some pitches you don't hear it at all. It is flat. Completely flat! As flat as when Phillinganes or Clapton sing Behind the mask!
Furthermore, when you hear in some parts of the song Monster the supposed spark in the voice like when the singer says "...stalking me..." it sounds nothing else but an attempt to have Michael's spark. In reality, Michael's original spark is absent and what is more, it is not Michael's accent at all when you hear the singer say it.
Unfortunately we do not possess demos of Monster or Breaking news to prove it as a fact, nevertheless Teddy told us that the voice on those tracks sounds different because of heavy processing.
@ Teddy: Fair enough Teddy, and I want to believe you without a slightest doubt. But I need more than just your word.
Now, nothing prevents us to do the job the other way round. We all have plenty of Michael's demos, don't we?
Well, here is the deal: I am challenging anyone among fans to pick any Michael's demo and heavily process it in order to obtain exactly the same voice timbre and accents and huskiness and sparks as in the Cascio tracks Monster or Breaking News.
If Teddy claims he did it with bad quality demos, he can also do it with good quality demos and obtain the same results in terms of "different voice sound". I think that way Teddy could prove Tarryll was wrong and in the same time relief some fans who are having hard time to recognize their idol on the Cascio tracks.
So fans, here we are, let's process and try to obtain the same results.
))) Thanks love is magical, but I think that nobody is willing to do it, because you don't change someone's voice timbre even with high tech or any kind of heavy processing as many have claimed up to now. All of sudden everyone has turned mute regarding melodyne or any other devices, softwares or programmes.
