Is that Optimus Prime singing on the track with Robin Thicke??

Timmy84 said:

Cerebus said:

Dude, are you serious? Report it? It was a joke.

I was joking too.

Never liked the song before, But this is horrible...

but then again it's by T-Pain... so is this really surprising?

and is Q getting senile?

EmbattledWarrior said:

Never liked the song before, But this is horrible...

but then again it's by T-Pain... so is this really surprising?

and is Q getting senile?

Not "getting", he IS lol

Not ALL older folks get senile at Q's age but he sure has signs of such.

I actually like T-Pain, and Robin Thicke. But this remix. Let's just say I'll be buying the new Q album, but it definitely won't be for this track.

I can't do it. I won't. I refuse to press play. I'll take all ya words for it... that it's Blasphemous Trash!

You guys can't blame Quincy. He didn't know T-Pain would be on it, he just got a call that a Hip-Hop cover of the song wanted to be done and he gave it the okay.

LayzieKrayzie said:

You guys can't blame Quincy. He didn't know T-Pain would be on it, he just got a call that a Hip-Hop cover of the song wanted to be done and he gave it the okay.

He allowed it.

LayzieKrayzie said:

You guys can't blame Quincy. He didn't know T-Pain would be on it, he just got a call that a Hip-Hop cover of the song wanted to be done and he gave it the okay.

Then what gives him the right to have an album with his name or face on it? Makes me doubt the extent of his involvement in his successful projects like The Dude.

Ellie said:

LayzieKrayzie said:

You guys can't blame Quincy. He didn't know T-Pain would be on it, he just got a call that a Hip-Hop cover of the song wanted to be done and he gave it the okay.

Then what gives him the right to have an album with his name or face on it? Makes me doubt the extent of his involvement in his successful projects like The Dude.

Exactly!

Glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks so. Why should he be the only one to have it both ways? Get all the glory when something is a hit, but be able to distance yourself when it's a piece of shit?

If it's a tribute album then leave it at that and stop inserting your name and image on it. Somehow he gets credited as a "performer" on all of these albums. As much as Andrew Ridgeley was a part of Wham maybe.

Timmy...you did a great job in this thread my friend

The senile ape is determined to destroy his legacy....let him do it

Ellie said:

Glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks so. Why should he be the only one to have it both ways? Get all the glory when something is a hit, but be able to distance yourself when it's a piece of shit?

If it's a tribute album then leave it at that and stop inserting your name and image on it. Somehow he gets credited as a "performer" on all of these albums. As much as Andrew Ridgeley was a part of Wham maybe.

That used to always disturb me as a kid reading the name of the song and seeing just his name on it. But I knew better. Quincy can't sing but yet he took all the glory from folks like James Ingram and Patti Austin. Quincy was the first producer to want to be in the spotlight as "his own artist" yet he didn't really go that route that Puffy and Timbaland and them did. And it's one thing to take credit and then when the album gets criticized back off on it. It does make you wonder about what he actually contributed.

seeingvoices12 said:

Timmy...you did a great job in this thread my friend

The senile ape is determined to destroy his legacy....let him do it

I think Quincy don't even know where he's at and if he does, he sure is acting like a pompous ass about it.

In a sense, I ain't mad at cha Quincy Jones. You're destroying your own legacy and showing your true colors. None of that can touch MJ's legacy.

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this is what's happening to Quincy's legacy

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inia said:

In a sense, I ain't mad at cha Quincy Jones. You're destroying your own legacy and showing your true colors. None of that can touch MJ's legacy.

Just 'play dead'. You'll know who your true friends are.

RipTheJacker said:

this is what's happening to Quincy's legacy

as shown by this individual

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Which would make T-Pain the Joker....

Close but no ciggy!

The beat sounds soft as baby schitt.

If T-Pain is gonna sound like a robot for the whole song, the beat better jam like Daft Punks or suh'n.

RipTheJacker said:

this is what's happening to Quincy's legacy

as shown by this individual

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bboy87 said:

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OMG, I just hollered so loud

Girl4both said:

You guys are seriously cracking me up!!

You should read the comments at YouTube. They're a lot rougher than ours.

Ellie said:

LayzieKrayzie said:

You guys can't blame Quincy. He didn't know T-Pain would be on it, he just got a call that a Hip-Hop cover of the song wanted to be done and he gave it the okay.

Then what gives him the right to have an album with his name or face on it? Makes me doubt the extent of his involvement in his successful projects like The Dude.

I like Quincy JOnes's music,and it's hard to deny his involvement in a huge number of successful projects, from MIles to Frank to Michael to his own stuff.

But there has long been a question in my mind of what he actually does

Cinnie said:

The beat sounds soft as baby schitt.

If T-Pain is gonna sound like a robot for the whole song, the beat better jam like Daft Punks or suh'n.

the song is still terrible.

PoppyBros said:

Cinnie said:

The beat sounds soft as baby schitt.

If T-Pain is gonna sound like a robot for the whole song, the beat better jam like Daft Punks or suh'n.

the song is still terrible.

I clearly like PYT the song as a composition.

And a remake didn't have to sound so weak. Here's proof!

It's just a remake and they're seldom that special.

The autotune sounds very cheap on it, but it always sounds cheap when it's overused.

I don't think there's anything too strange about old artists releasing "updated" versions of material they were involved with during their most successful years. Quincy Jones has done a lot of covers anyway, so it seems like a natural choice. The track might have been also chosen for an inclusion on his record, because Quincy Jones was given also a songwriting credit for it originally. Notice that Michael himself wasn't. It's not like Quincy is insisting on including this version on all the future editions of "Thriller".

NDRU said:

Ellie said:

Then what gives him the right to have an album with his name or face on it? Makes me doubt the extent of his involvement in his successful projects like The Dude.

I like Quincy JOnes's music,and it's hard to deny his involvement in a huge number of successful projects, from MIles to Frank to Michael to his own stuff.

But there has long been a question in my mind of what he actually does

Very good point.Quincy seems like the type of producer who basically brings together a bunch of talented musicians and supervises their work.In the case of 'Thriller',Michael had already written and recorded a few demos before entering the studio with Quincy.

SoulAlive said:

NDRU said:

I like Quincy JOnes's music,and it's hard to deny his involvement in a huge number of successful projects, from MIles to Frank to Michael to his own stuff.

But there has long been a question in my mind of what he actually does

Very good point.Quincy seems like the type of producer who basically brings together a bunch of talented musicians and supervises their work.In the case of 'Thriller',Michael had already written and recorded a few demos before entering the studio with Quincy.

Back then, the "arranger" term was more used than producer, which is the practical term that describes Quincy just as much it described Gil Evans, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler, Willie Mitchell.

Those guys provided the musicians, the setting and how an album should be recorded.

Really? I've never seen the word "arranger" used in that manner. That sounds exactly what a "producer" does, or rather, used to do in the past decades. An arranger is the person who provides the musical arrangements for the songs, by taking into account what type of musicians and instruments are going to be involved. That's exactly what someone like Gil Evans did.

In some cases, an "arranger" may be someone who writes only specific parts for the music. For example, Clare Fischer has done many string arrangements for Prince's songs. I've never seen the term being used for "arranging" organizational and practical matters.