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Sony Releases Fake "Michael Jackson" Songs For Christmas
The cover of "Michael"
December 13th, 2010: The new album "Michael", which Sony promotes as a new Michael Jackson record, contains three fake tracks, on which an imposter vocalist pretends to be Michael Jackson.
- Hold My Hand (Duet with Akon)
- Hollywood Tonight
- FAKE: Keep Your Head Up — imposter vocalist
- (I Like) The Way You Love Me
- FAKE: Monster — imposter vocalist
- Best Of Joy
- FAKE: Breaking News — imposter vocalist
- (I Can't Make It) Another Day (featuring Lenny Kravitz)
- Behind the Mask
- Much Too Soon
Show Sony that you won't accept being insulted. Don't buy the album. Spread the word.
Listen yourself
"I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or music. Like Michelangelo, he said, 'I know the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.' And that’s how I feel. I give my all to my work. I want it to just live."
— Michael Jackson, in his last interview, Ebony 2007
It seems far-fetched, but it is impossible to come to any other conclusion; three out of the ten tracks on the recently released posthumous album "Michael" feature someone else than Michael Jackson as the lead vocalist.
There is no need to take our word for it, however. The full album is available for listening here:
The three tracks in question can be found at around the 8:15 mark (Keep Your Head Up), 17:32 (Monster), and 25:41 (Breaking News). As can be clearly heard, the person singing on the three tracks shares neither Michael Jackson's distinctive timbre nor his velvety vibrato.
But if the voice on the fake tracks does not belong to Michael Jackson, who can it be? Although the identity of the imposter vocalist is unknown as of yet, there is an argument to be made that the voice might belong to the singer Jason Malachi. Malachi has made a name for himself for several years by singing in a similar style to Jackson, and the similarity to the voice on the tracks is remarkable. Have a listen:
Snippets from track 3 on "Michael", "Keep Your Head Up", compared to similar vocals from Malachi:
Snippets from track 5 on "Michael", "Monster", compared to similar vocals from Malachi:
Snippets from track 7 on "Michael", "Breaking News", compared to similar vocals from Malachi:
Quotes
"How can you release a record without Michael Jackson? It's not Michael Jackson. I heard the song that's on the Internet now ['Breaking News'] and I'm like, 'That ain't Mike.'"
— Will.I.Am, Black Eyed Peas, Michael Jackson's producer
"I remember when Teddy and I were at Encore listening to Keep Your Head Up. We both knew it wasn't my Uncle."
"Out of the 10 songs listed, only 7 of them are Michael Jackson."
"I've always admired the talent of Teddy Riley, but after hearing him lie on Oprah I am terribly disappointed."
— Taryll Jackson, Michael Jackson's nephew
"Some of the songs are him, and some aren't. I would bet my life on that."
"And as to the vocal authenticators, they work for pay. And I wasn't there when they did their analysis."
"Like I said, Sony and the executors have 250 million reasons to influence the public."
— Randy Jackson, Michael Jackson's brother
"I have read the statement from the MJ estate and I have to say that it's just more bullshit! I was in that room, and the majority of the people mentioned did NOT agree that it was MJ! Some felt it sounded like him but all agree that there was nothing there that was consistent with any MJ habits like finger snaps, headphone bleeding, foot stomping or just simple things like his voice asking for another take. Both Dr. Freeze and Teddy Riley sat with Taryll Jackson and myself and stated that they felt what we felt. As for the specialists that were brought in, I don't think anyone from the actual Jackson family got any direct confirmation that made them feel any different then what they have felt all along."
— Cory Rooney, producer
"It seems like everybody is trying to put everything out that they can with him. I don't understand it. It's all to make money. He wouldn't have wanted it to come out this way. They must just be trying to make as much money as they can. I don't know why else they are doing it."
— Quincy Jones, producer of Michael Jackson's
"Off the Wall", "Thriller", and "Bad" albums
The last word
"Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons."
— Michael Jackson