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Post by Enigma. on Nov 4, 2010 15:54:11 GMT -5
The first single 'Breaking News' will be revealed on Monday.
HUGE NEWS
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Post by Disco🌶️📖 on Nov 4, 2010 17:14:38 GMT -5
^^^ MUCH ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM FROM THE KING OF POP MICHAEL TO BE RELEASED DECEMBER 14 Exclusive Teaser and Song to be Unveiled on MichaelJackson.com New York, NY – The much anticipated album of newly completed recordings from Michael Jackson entitled MICHAEL will be released on December 14 by Epic Records in conjunction with the Estate of Michael Jackson. Tomorrow, an exclusive teaser for the project will appear on http://www.michaeljackson.com; on Monday, November 8th the world premiere of “Breaking News,” a full track from the album, will stream on the site for one week only. The creative process never stopped for the King of Pop who was always planning for his next album; unbeknownst to many fans around the world Michael Jackson was writing and recording songs continuously everywhere from a friend’s home in New Jersey to studios in Las Vegas and Los Angeles with a small group of handpicked collaborators. Now, through the unique stories that will be told about the songs that comprise MICHAEL, fans will get mind-blowing insight into how this artist worked and a chance to hear the songs he most recently created along with tracks that Michael had a desire to bring to fruition. “Breaking News,” a never heard before song by Michael that appears on the new album was recorded in New Jersey in 2007 and recently brought to completion. Fans can begin pre-ordering the album on www.michaeljackson.com in the next 24 hours. The attached image of the album cover of MICHAEL was created by painter Kadir Nelson in 2009. In the oil painting, Kadir – who is known for story telling through his art – takes us on a journey through some key moments and important people in Michael Jackson’s life. Stay tuned for the worldwide launch of the official first single from MICHAEL later this month. www.michaeljackson.com
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2010 18:12:43 GMT -5
The title sounds lame. Is it going to be like his mid 90s songs about the paparazzi all in his business? This will probably do better than This is It at least because they didnt even allow people to download that on itunes since it was the only new song on the soundtrack
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Post by Rεvôlvεr† on Nov 4, 2010 18:59:07 GMT -5
The album cover is great!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2010 21:44:26 GMT -5
Thats gaudy and reminds me of the Dangerous cover but somehow I like it. He was all about gaudy things so it represents him well
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Post by Disco🌶️📖 on Nov 5, 2010 1:26:35 GMT -5
I think the cover is good. It encompasses many key parts and aspects of his career and things associated with him. I think it is better than a plain cover with just Michael's name and the title of the album. It would have been so boring if they went that route. Using previously unused photos from other shoots would have been okay too. Chances are that there might be a lot of those.
In other MJ news, advertisements for the Cirque Du Soleil Michael Jackson-themed show have begun to air on television now. It's a little peculiar because the dates they are advertising for my area (Northern California) will be performed in January 2012. At first I thought it was an error but it really is 2012. Maybe it kicks off at the end of 2011, or it really does start in 2012. I'll look into that.
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Post by So Pure on Nov 5, 2010 13:35:21 GMT -5
The title sounds lame. Is it going to be like his mid 90s songs about the paparazzi all in his business? This will probably do better than This is It at least because they didnt even allow people to download that on itunes since it was the only new song on the soundtrack The teaser is up at michaeljackson.com. It's a bunch of reporters and clips from the trial and sound bites like "here we go again"...I'm sorry but since Michael has now passed do they really want to drudge up all of the scandal and ugliness that was the molestation allegations etc.!? Who even knows what’s on the disc but do they really want to start off with that? There isn’t a pure pop record that invokes a “Rock With You” or even a “You Rock My World” kind of feel. I wish they’d celebrate Michael the artist and not the tabloid staple he became. Kind of disappointed!
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Post by esoteric76 on Nov 5, 2010 14:34:48 GMT -5
I think the cover is good. It encompasses many key parts and aspects of his career and things associated with him. I think it is better than a plain cover with just Michael's name and the title of the album. It would have been so boring if they went that route. Using previously unused photos from other shoots would have been okay too. Chances are that there might be a lot of those. In other MJ news, advertisements for the Cirque Du Soleil Michael Jackson-themed show have begun to air on television now. It's a little peculiar because the dates they are advertising for my area (Northern California) will be performed in January 2012. At first I thought it was an error but it really is 2012. Maybe it kicks off at the end of 2011, or it really does start in 2012. I'll look into that. I got an email yesterday for tickets to the Cirque show for April 2012! I did a double take. I also like the cover for the Michael album. I find it interesting, but not altogether suprising that none of the images really showed what he looked like in the final years, but focus more on his in-between-faces (and earlier) years.
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Post by Enigma. on Nov 5, 2010 14:53:24 GMT -5
The title sounds lame. Is it going to be like his mid 90s songs about the paparazzi all in his business? This will probably do better than This is It at least because they didnt even allow people to download that on itunes since it was the only new song on the soundtrack The teaser is up at michaeljackson.com. It's a bunch of reporters and clips from the trial and sound bites like "here we go again"...I'm sorry but since Michael has now passed do they really want to drudge up all of the scandal and ugliness that was the molestation allegations etc.!? Who even knows what’s on the disc but do they really want to start off with that? There isn’t a pure pop record that invokes a “Rock With You” or even a “You Rock My World” kind of feel. I wish they’d celebrate Michael the artist and not the tabloid staple he became. Kind of disappointed! Did you listen to the song at the end of the teaser? Sounded brilliant to me - HIStory-esque
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Post by HolidayGuy on Nov 5, 2010 21:25:53 GMT -5
Wonder if the album will be available at iTunes- recall that for This Is It, the previously unreleased track was not made available for individual purchase. Would iTunes sell the album without having any tracks available for individual purchase?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2010 11:53:01 GMT -5
Wonder if the album will be available at iTunes- recall that for This Is It, the previously unreleased track was not made available for individual purchase. Would iTunes sell the album without having any tracks available for individual purchase? The reason they did that was because This is It was the only new song on the album. They were trying to get people to download the full album. Otherwise most people probably would have just downloaded This is It and not bothered with the album when he has a million other greatest hits out
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Post by HolidayGuy on Nov 6, 2010 13:54:00 GMT -5
True, but if Sony wants the album to sell even more, it may consider not having the songs available for individual purchase. Especially as it's an album of unreleased tracks (which usually aren't viewed as being as strong as cuts that make an album)- Sony may want to avoid the cherrypicking.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Nov 6, 2010 14:07:49 GMT -5
new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/thatsreallyweek/113631/nov-1-7-is-it-michael-or-is-it-memorex/Nov. 1-7: Is It Michael, Or Is It Memorex? Posted Fri Nov 5, 2010 4:03pm PDT by Lyndsey Parker in That's Really Week Nearly a year and a half after Michael Jackson's shocking death, the public's appetite for all things Thrilling remains voracious. So to feed that need, this week it was announced that a Jackson-themed Cirque Du Soleil show directed by MJ's Dangerous Tour choreographer Jamie King is in the works, and, even more thrillingly, that an album of all-new unreleased Michael material, no-brainingly titled Michael, will be in stores in time for the holidays. But perhaps the more suitable title for that album should be This Is It?, because according to Michael's own children and mother, some of the songs on the album are fakes. Three to five of the 10-12 tracks on Michael, out December 14 on Sony, were allegedly recorded at the New Jersey home of producer Eddie Cascio in 2007, when Michael and his children stayed there for four months working on remixes for the 25th-anniversary reissue of Thriller. Michael's son, Prince Michael, said this week that none of what he heard recorded then matches what he hears now on Michael, and that he believes the Cascio cuts were recorded posthumously by a Michael soundalike. Prince's sister, Paris, corroborated these claims--as did Michael's mother, Katherine, during an Oprah interview. Joe Jackson, Michael's dad, also protested the songs via a statement by his attorney. Sony reps, of course, claim they have performed voice-authentication tests with "sound experts" who concluded that the vocals on the album indeed belong to none other than the King Of Pop. The label also issued a teaser preview of one of the Cascio-produced songs, "Breaking News," so that fans could listen to it and judge for themselves. However, since the teaser was almost entirely instrumental, except for a couple yelps in the final seconds, it didn't really do much to dispel the Jackson clan's claims. Listen to it below...does that "ow!" sound like Michael Jackson to you, or an impostor? Perhaps this issue will be resolved when the full version of "Breaking News" starts streaming Monday, November 8, on Michael Jackson's official website.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2010 14:40:31 GMT -5
I think people would realize if it wasnt his voice. Maybe his family just doesnt want a bunch of horrible songs released
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Post by Rεvôlvεr† on Nov 6, 2010 14:55:52 GMT -5
Sony wouldn't release anything under Michael's name that was not him singing.
Who would walk themselves into a lawsuit that easily?
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Post by Disco🌶️📖 on Nov 7, 2010 2:53:19 GMT -5
Sony wouldn't release anything under Michael's name that was not him singing. Who would walk themselves into a lawsuit that easily? The kinds of things that some labels overlook would truly surprise you. Some recent examples. Look at what a mess the Madonna Celebration collection was. You would think that the label had the single versions sitting in a vault somewhere ready to be acquired and used. Even sourcing them from the commercially released singles or even promos would have been better, but for whatever reason, they decided to re-create certain edits which already exist and they did a poor job doing so. And they didn't fix the problem and release an amended edition of the collection at all. And for Janet Jackson's Number Ones CD which came out some time back (either it was late last year or early this year--I didn't purchase it so I'm not sure), several of the songs were sourced from the album with a millsecond or so of the interlude that preceded the song or the one after it tacked on. And in some cases, a song ended and the final second of the song flowed into the next song on the original album but on the collection, it was cut off. To the casual fan, this sort of thing may not matter that much, but to fans who have been waiting for such a collection, it's not good. Most wouldn't even notice these types of things. I didn't purchase (or illegally download) either of those collections due to the nature of the problems. Besides, I previously owned the CDs of the albums and singles that those songs had originally appeared on. In the case of a Michael Jackson album, this is a big no-no. It's extremely troubling if it is really true that songs apparently sung by someone else got lumped in with the real ones and made the final tracklisting. It makes one wonder what is going on. You would think that there would be far more scrutiny and care taken to do the best with the project. It's such a shame.
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Post by SHOOTER on Nov 7, 2010 12:51:18 GMT -5
BN sounds so dated. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Post by Adonis the DemiGod! on Nov 7, 2010 14:00:41 GMT -5
BN sounds so dated. This is a disaster waiting to happen. Why are they releasing this dated sounding mess as a first single? Sony doesnt get it. They shouldve thrown a cheap dance beat on it at least.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2010 18:42:41 GMT -5
Apparently "Breaking News" sounds like "Billie Jean", isn't the first single and will leak in full tonight.
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Post by Janhova's Witness on Nov 8, 2010 0:40:18 GMT -5
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Post by Disco🌶️📖 on Nov 8, 2010 2:32:31 GMT -5
As I stated in the Pop section, I am shocked by the song. Vocally, it just doesn't sound like him. What happened?
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Post by Rεvôlvεr† on Nov 8, 2010 3:16:53 GMT -5
2,000 Watts didn't sound like him either..
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Post by So Pure on Nov 8, 2010 10:08:43 GMT -5
As I stated in the Pop section, I am shocked by the song. Vocally, it just doesn't sound like him. What happened? I don't think that's him! :o The vocals seem layered on top of each other...there are ad-libs where is sounds like him but I honestly don’t think that lead vocal is MJ!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2010 10:44:45 GMT -5
Wow. It really doesnt sound much like him but who knows? The song is just not very good either way. It reminds me of something like Cant Let Her Get Away from Dangerous mixed with Tabloid Junkie from History. I doubt he would even want this released
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Post by Tea-why on Nov 8, 2010 13:14:54 GMT -5
BN sounds so dated. This is a disaster waiting to happen. I agree. This has "mess" written all over it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2010 14:31:23 GMT -5
Wow. There seems to be a lot of controversy on the internet. People dont seem to think Breaking News is actually Michael. I thought it was probably a stupid rumor until I heard the song for myself. I think maybe some of the vocals are him but I think a lot of it is a soundalike mixed in with his real vocals to make it sound more like a complete studio recording.
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Post by Rεvôlvεr† on Nov 10, 2010 16:04:28 GMT -5
It's rumored MICHAEL has already sold 3.2 million in pre-orders alone..
Anyone have a source to this?
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Post by wittigrxn on Nov 10, 2010 16:34:52 GMT -5
It's rumored MICHAEL has already sold 3.2 million in pre-orders alone.. Anyone have a source to this? There is absolutely no way that's true, especially with all this controversy.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2010 17:37:46 GMT -5
There is no way that is true. Even worldwide that would be a stretch and there is no way to know worldwide presales. In the US that figure is just ludicrous. I doubt it will get anywhere close to that in total US sales
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Post by Disco🌶️📖 on Nov 11, 2010 5:31:08 GMT -5
While it is always interesting to hear that a particular album has X number of pre-orders, such numbers can always be pulled out of thin air in order to create demand. There's really no way to verify that either way.
As much as I want new music, if it is going to be of this quality with this sort of controversy constantly swirling around it, I would rather that they not until all this can be properly sorted out and handled.
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