Skrevet af Tom Wallaert:
Two days after Michael Jackson died, a set of 12 songs were registered at the copyright office. These songs, “All I Need”, “Alright”, “Black Widow”, “Breaking News”, “Burn Tonight”, “Fall in Love”, “Keep Your Head Up”, “Monster”, “Ready 2 Win”, “Soldier Boy”, “Stay” and “Water”, were supposedly written and recorded by Michael Jackson and two nobodies called Eddie Cascio and James Porte in 2007. Parts of all 12 songs can be found online and they all feature the same voice, but the voice does not sound exactly like the King of Pop. These songs were specifically created to sound like Michael Jackson songs, yet the fact of the matter is that none of them are actually sung by him. None. “What? Are you crazy?” No, I am very serious. They are all sung by an impersonator who calls himself Jason Malachi. His sloppy technique, which includes a really bad vibrato, sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the King of Pop’s vocals, both on his own music and these 12 tracks. To this day, Jason has never personally denied singing these songs, however for some reason many people have posed as Jason online (imagine that, impersonators of an impersonator!) to deny it in his place. Only when his Facebook page was hacked did his manager release a statement saying that Jason had nothing to do with the songs. This is however a clear lie. If you put the Cascio tracks next to some of his songs, you will find a much closer match in vocal sound than Michael Jackson, incluidng an identical vibrato.
“Black Widow” features some tiny Michael Jackson ad-libs taken from songs like “Unbreakable”,
“Breaking News” has some vocal sounds and noises taken from “You Rock My World”, “Invincible” and a track called “Escape” that leaked to the internet in 2002.
“Keep Your Head Up” features vocals taken from Michael’s epic song “Earth Song”.
“Monster” is surely the Frankenstein song of the bunch, with noises taken from songs like “Rock With You”, “Scream” and the “Ghosts” film. Along with that phrases have been constructed using a mixture of the impersonator and individual words from the song “Invincible”, sometimes repitched to fit the new key.
“Soldier Boy” features some vocals from “They Don’t Care About Us”.
“Stay” features just one falsetto “you” copy-pasted from “Butterflies”.
When you listen to the tracks, you can’t help but hearing obvious references to Michael’s past work, to make people further think the songs are his.
“Ready 2 Win” is a sloppy rewrite of “On the Line”, with the line “I believe I’m ready 2 win” featuring an almost identical note structure as “Gotta put your heart on the line”.
“Monster” references “Threatened” and “Off the Wall” and rehashes some of Michael’s paparazzi themes.
“Keep Your Head Up” rehashes the main theme from “Keep the Faith”
“Alright” is a straight ripoff of “Stranger in Moscow” music-wise.
“Soldier Boy” draws heavy influences from “They Don’t Care About Us”.
“Black Widow” has some similarities with “Why You Wanna Trip on Me”.
“All I Need” borrows from “You Are Not Alone”.
Finally “Breaking News” rehashes its intro from “Tabloid Junkie”, its guitar from “You Rock My World” and its overall theme again from past paparazzi- and tabloid-inspired songs
Dette indlæg er redigeret af fuzzball: 14 November 2011 - 10:00 AM