I agree that the Michael Jackson estate is doing what Michael would do, I'd even say I prefer the Michael Jackson estate which doesn't release stuff every month like you said in this thread just to give what fans want. Also on behalf of pressed stans saying "MJ ESTATE RELEASE SOMETHING YOU TOTALLY HAVE SOME MAGIC VAULT WITH MILLIONS OF SONGS!!!! BE LIKE PRINCE ESTATE". First of all Prince didn't do demos like Michael, he completed every song that he did meanwhile the majority of Michael's vault is mumbling over a instrumental. XSCAPE and The Ultimate Collection were enough for me. Also the estate does not have film negatives for concerts. Those film reels are probably lost in time or in a collector's possesion.
Whatever lies in the vault cannot just simply be left to rot with time, now can it? We are not asking for a new release every month. In fact, that would not work out, due to inadequate time to create, promote, the whole process. However, it does not hurt to put out re-releases or special editions to celebrate anniversaries of Michael's albums on specific years that mark specific anniversaries of the release of these albums. Bad 25 was in 2012, Dangerous 25 could have been in 2016, and HIStory 25 could be this year, for example. To extend the time gap, Dangerous 30 could be next year, as well as Invincible 20. I understand that anniversaries of these albums may not be commercially successful due to their notability not being as strong as, say, the Thriller album. But that is the benefit of it. The less mainstream they are, the more that people may be curious to purchase a special anniversary edition, and also realize that Thriller and Bad were not the only solo albums Michael produced in his lifetime, which in turn can flood the Estate's bank account. I feel that celebrating the anniversaries of Michael's less prominent albums could bring more attention to them so they are no longer less prominent, or at least not as less prominent as before.
As a matter of fact, a petition has been started for the Estate to release
one Bad World Tour concert on film or HQ. Just
one, not all the shows. The last official concert release was back in 2012 with that concert in London in celebration of Bad 25, which settled eight years ago.
Eight years ago. Is it not much to ask for just one concert release after this long period of time? Given the amount of concerts from the Dangerous World Tour and HIStory World Tour coming out in recent years, people wish to see a new show from the Bad World Tour see the light of day, a wish the Estate could grant. Keyword
could, not can. The type of people who first had these unreleased Dangerous and HIStory Tour shows would not budge with their Bad Tour inventory, so the Estate has the upper hand in this, because unlike these people, they can profit from it.
Oh, and some of the leaks of songs, like Throwing Your Life Away, prove that not everything in the vault is Michael mumbling lyrics over a band. There is a brief snippet I have heard from a song called "Seven Digits," which apparently was worked on during the production of the Dangerous album. There was no mumbling. There was even another small snippet of a song called "Don't Believe it," in which certainly Michael did not sound like he was mumbling.
All in all, we aren't demanding an official release every month. On grand occasions like Dangerous 25, it only feels right to want to celebrate the albums in the best ways possible, ways similar to those of Bad 25. It cannot be that much of a burden to release a concert eight years after the last one was officially put out for the world to see, can it? It hurts me to think about whatever that lies in the vault slowly rotting away into thin air, when it could have been heard or watched by many supporters, and eventually, appreciated.
