So, the primary vocals in the Cascio songs don't sound like Michael Jackson because, well, they're not Michael Jackson.
I would love to know how you can state this with such certainty?
At times, I really question the intelligence of people making such blatant and direct claims as this. I really wish, just once that many of the 'naysayers' stood back and took a real good look at the "bigger picture" here.
It is relatively clear to people with frontal-lobe capacity that when the initial rumours broke about "fake vocals" on the Cascio tracks, those people stating these very serious claims (which again, were publicly posted on a social networking site!) clearly have ulterior motives and can most definitely benefit in a big way if these outrageous claims would be accepted by a large percentage of people.
Now, let's start with the obvious.
Firstly, if certain members of the Jackson camp and their cronies have taken such an issue with these "fake" songs and found them disgraceful and dishonest, surely considering how litigious this family has demonstrated they are many times over
and the size of the project that these "fakes" appear on and it's importance to literally many millions of people, you must assume that the following the proper channels (I.E. reporting the matter to the appropriate authorities) would be priority number one!
Twitter certainly is not the correct outlet for such concerns to be raised...at the very least not intitally.
Unless you're actively trying to cause mass hysteria and confusion amongst fans and the like. As someone else posted here a little while back, has anyone taken notice of the fact that ever since Mike's death, anytime certain members of the Jackson camp (Joe, Brian Oxman, Randy, Jermaine and 3T to name a few) are overlooked fiscally in any of the projects etc. they immediately (and publicly) decry "FAKE"!?...
Case in point, when Michael's latest Will surfaced and suprisingly (at least to Joe and Oxman) the Jackson's were not figured in on it, they bombarded the world's media with "The Will itself and signature's are FAKE!"...When This Is It the film was in production, Joe and his 'Yes men' fuelled the fire of a "body double" appearing and performing in the movie after they found out they will not be benefitting financially from the film "It's not all Michael" claimed silly old Joe.
I'm sure there's a couple more examples I could use, however since I'm actually putting some thought into my post and attempting to clearly explain my own viewpoints, my mind is all over the place at the moment and I may be temporarily missing some key examples! If anyone would like to 'jump in' and re-enlighten me, feel welcome!
However, regardless of my memory loss, this brings us to the here and now and the Cascio tracks. Taj and Taryll have made their own opinions known about the Cascio tracks since literally the day before the stream of 'Breaking News' was up and running on mj.com.
Despite their claims of "knowing the tracks are fake" for many months and their admission of being made aware that three of the songs they question will feature on the new Michael album long before they raised their "concerns". Of course, as I mentioned above, they weren't raised to the appropriate authorities who could have stepped in and settled this early on...No silly, they posted rants on Twitter! :smilerolleyes: Before any fans had a chance to hear the songs themselves...They "got in first" so to speak.
Now, the 3T boys' musical career has been stagnant for some fourteen years now. Having (possibly) multiple tracks of theirs featured on the new Michael album which given the circumstances is a sure fire favourite to not only take the "number one" spot the world over, but will most likely sell in the many millions automatically, would expose Taj and Co. to a huge audience and give them the best chance to relaunch their flagging careers all in one foul swoop.
To go from 'chart toppers' to trivia game answers surely isn't what 3T had in mind when they started making music! A stronger inclusion on the Michael album would not only return a little of the spotlight to 3T but would also furnish the Jackson Family coffers with some serious cash!
One can only imagine how livid and upset Taj and his Brothers were when they were informed that the Cascio recordings had been chosen above whatever work they had left over from recording with Mike fourteen or fifteen years ago to appear on the new album.
Taj himself admitted that he was present at some of the earliest listening sessions Sony, The Estate and other Executives had with the new tracks. Clearly, Taj has heard the demo nature of the recordings which are lacking Mike's finishing touches and backing vocals and kept the "fake" card up his sleeve if and when his tracks weren't represented on the new album.
All that has happened though, by not following the proper channels with his "concerns" and ranting on Twitter, mass confusion and anger have consumed the online Michael Jackson community and negative connotations have been unnecessarily attached to the Michael album that were not needed or wanted.
In my opinion, what has transpired on Twitter and the online forums due mainly to 3T is repulsive and puts on display for all to see how desperately they crave some media attention for the reasons I mentioned above.
Now, onto the Sony part of the equasion...
Does anybody here seriously believe that a
publicly traded major media/electronics conglomerate such as Sony, which has thousands of shareholders and important investors to please and keep happy, frivolously throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at "Fake" tracks!? A move like that, If shown to be true, would be disastrous on the highest level to Sony from a business perspective. It truly makes no business or fiscal sense for an act like that to transpire.
As for the extensive testing of the vocals on the Cascio tracks...The fact that these measures were taken shows tremendous business foresight on the part of the Executives who had them performed.
Firstly, the artist in question is now deceased and we're not talking about any artists here, we're talking about Michael Fricken' Jackson! Only the largest selling artist in the entire history of Popular music and the man who's death, single-handedly brought down the Internet itself for a short time!
Those tests/measures of protection undertaken by Sony/The Estate under these circumstances we must assume were pretty much protocol. I'm sure anyone here if put in the position that Sony/The Estate were would do the same exact thing.
Having the FBI forensically test the vocals and disclosing that fact publicly is more or less the Estate/Sony stating to the naysers: "If you want to accuse these tracks of being 'fake' due to your own selfish desires and you're so offended and aghast that they're being released, take us to court, prove your case and this is the evidence you're up against."
All we have been subjected to ever since from the Jackson naysayers are more derogatory rants on social newtworking websites and zero official action up to this point has been taken. As I mentioned before, that is highly suprising given just how litigious these people have proven themselves to be time and again!
3T's public rants were designed and aimed at a specific target fan base, the ever present, online fan base. Taj had to know the effect such extreme accusations would cause by releasing them the way he and others did. They correctly assumed that this particular section of the fan base would take these wild claims and splash them all over their websites. In the process, fooling the less astute into buying these wild claims.
In the end though, it's quite clear that it's highly unlikely any formal legal action will be taken by these certain members of the Jackson camp as they clearly do not "have a leg to stand on" so to speak legality wise. In other words, they would laughed out the door in court.
Finally, after all that has transpired recently, I feel it's rather fitting that a majority of the record-buyers and fans alike all concur that the Cascio tracks are some of the strongest, if not the strongest on the album itself! :clapping:
