love is magical
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People are all over the place with the varying degrees to which they believe these songs were "demos". Personally, I don't care: I clearly hear someone singing most of the leads.... Keep Your Head Up has two verses and a bridge, Breaking News has a couple of verses and a bridge, Monster has two verses and a bridge... So what are people saying, that he mumbled those parts and someone else has gone over them and sung them? It's him or its not. There is no middle ground.
If the only point of contention was the chorus, or some voice in the far background, many probably would ease up. Personally, I've got no issue with someone fleshing out backing vocals. My issue is with the leads and the leads alone. Regardless of their authenticity, I think they sound whiney, awful and totally in stark contrast to songs like Hollywood Tonight or Best Of Joy.
In fact, Hollywood Tonight is an example of a demo; a couple of Mike's lyrics are rehashed during the song, someone else is whistling and doing some spoken parts, and there is a spoken bridge by one of his nephews. THAT'S what I consider a demo brought to completion.
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