*sigh*
There is very little releasable material from 2005 onward. Saying otherwise is spreading misinformation.
"[Insert name here] said they heard some of MJ's new music" is an invalid defense. It's no surprise that people with integral connections to MJ would be privy to the material he was involved in. How does this culminate into the idea that they were listening to boatloads of finished/nearly-finished songs? So far as I'm aware, neither Raymone Bain nor Guy Holmes have offered any insight into the state of the material they've heard, and it's pretty common for MJ's studio personnel and managers to hear incomplete music. The connection is nonsensical.
Nearly every post-trial collaborator has inferred that the well of 2006-09 music is nearly dry:
- The Bahrain material of 2005-06 is shrouded in secrecy. Of the few titles known to have been on the drawing board, only one ("He Who Makes the Sky Gray") is known to exist with usable vocals.
- will.i.am's material of 2006-08 is similarly ambiguous thanks to a decade of inconsistent and contradictory accounts. Again, only one title can be concretely confirmed to exist in a releasable capacity: "I'm Dreamin'," which will.i.am attempted to release in 2013.
- Neff-U has yet to comment on the state of his material, though Damien Shields has claimed that they don't have a single finished song together.
- RedOne has never stated nor implied that he was sitting on a smorgasbord of finished music; the closest he edged to that cliff was in saying that "some songs" could be released. Evidently he privately told Shields that everything they worked on would require extensive guest vocalists. (Many of the RedOne songs are nearly finished and simply need a final mix? When did he say that?)
- Akon confirmed that "Hold My Hand" is the only releasable song he and MJ worked on.
- Ne-Yo has no idea whether or not MJ recorded any of the numerous demos he submitted.
- Brad Buxer and Michael Prince, the two most consistent collaborators from this era, have been willing participants in each of the Estate's primary projects (Michael and Xscape). There's no reason to believe they would withhold material.
All this notwithstanding the fact that several people with intimate access to much of this material (e.g., Brad Buxer, Michael Prince, Damien Shields, Joseph Vogel, John Barnes) have all confirmed that very little exists.
So the claim here is that, instead of releasing the myriad of finished material from 2006-09 they're evidently holding onto, the Estate chose seven songs that have been circulating online since as early as 2006, three songs of questionable origins, and one song that was previously released in 2004? And the one unheard post-trial recording they DID opt to include on an album ("Best of Joy") is, for all intents and purposes, a cover of a song MJ had originally written in 1982?
No way. Forgive my rant here, but the fan community is confused and perplexed enough. Jumping to conclusions based on vague commentary is the worst way to go about this.
