Timmy84 said:

JackieJackson5 said:

The rumors about #TheJacksons touring in #Japan are false.... (via jackiejackson5)

Lemme guess - Jermaine gave the interview, lol.

So far according to Jermaine:

The Jacksons were going to tour.

Then there was going to be the Vienna concert.

Then there was going to be a Wembley 2010 concert.

Then Janet was going to join them for a tour doing the Jackson stuff.

Now AI.

I'm waiting for the Prince joins Jacksons for tribute story - shouldn't be far off now.

Swa said:

Timmy84 said:

Lemme guess - Jermaine gave the interview, lol.

So far according to Jermaine:

The Jacksons were going to tour.

Then there was going to be the Vienna concert.

Then there was going to be a Wembley 2010 concert.

Then Janet was going to join them for a tour doing the Jackson stuff.

Now AI.

I'm waiting for the Prince joins Jacksons for tribute story - shouldn't be far off now.

Yeah that's a good scenario he was behind this "latest reunion rumor".

He ALSO said the Jacksons were gonna put out a reunion album this year. Well the year is over and no Jacksons album.

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http://ellen.warnerbros.c...reURL=true

Better quality of Ellen dancing to Hollywood Tonight.

[Edited 12/3/10 15:43pm]

On Behind the Mask i was hoping for the same beat as the Greg Phillinganes version but it different.

Hollywood Tonight is da bomb!

It's gonna be one of my jams on this album.

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Jay....where did you find this?

I'm crazy about Hollywood Tonight

bboy87 said:

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Am I the only one who thinks that these liners look alittle cryptic and creepy???

SherryJackson said:

Jay....where did you find this?

on MJJC

that place is good some things

BBC NEWSBEAT-First Listen: Michael Jackson's new album





Thursday, 2 December 2010


"Disrespectful", "keeping his legacy alive", "fake" vocals?

Michael Jackson's first album of new material since his death has arrived amidst a storm of controversy.

Michael is released on 13 December.

It's the first album of "new" Michael Jackson material in nearly a decade.

The run-up to the release has seen major controversy with other artists, record companies and Jackson's own family wading into an argument about whether the album is legitimate or in good taste.

Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am branded the release "disrespectful" earlier this year.

But Akon, who features on the album's opening track Hold My Hand, hit back, claiming the body of work would be "keeping Michael Jackson's legacy alive".

'Scientifically tested'

The album, Michael, is released on 13 December Then came the questions raised over Jackson's vocals. His nephews, TJ and Taryll Jackson, complained on Twitter about the track Breaking News. They said it sounded "fake" and "shady".

But record company Sony, who are releasing the album in conjunction with the Jackson estate, said they had "complete confidence" the singing was his own, arguing that it was scientifically tested.

Michael Jackson has written the credits on all of the album's 10 tracks. Significantly though will.i.am and Lady Gaga's producer RedOne's tracks don't feature.

What this isn't, is a new Michael Jackson album, but a jigsaw collection of previously unheard material.

The tracks have predominantly been written in the last five years, in various locations like New Jersey, Las Vegas and London.

But final track Much Too Soon was written almost 30 years ago, during the Thriller sessions in the early 80s.


Modern flavour

It's oddly prophetic in the context of this album and MJ's death, featuring the lyric "I guess I learned my lesson much too soon".

But even though it's been unheard, the collaborations included on the album do help to give this a distinctive, modern flavour.

50 Cent raps a verse and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl plays drums on Monster.

Jackson's track with Lenny Kravitz, leaked online at the start of 2010, (I Can't Make It) Another Day, also appears.

The press release given to journalists at the album playback is honest in describing the source material for the album as "creative blueprints" and "foundations".

In other words the songs were incomplete.

A team of producers including Teddy Riley, Eddie Cascio and Theron 'Neff-U' Feemster helped turn them into fully formed tracks.

The result, somewhat predictably, is not a cohesive body of work. It does sound like tracks have been picked from various points within his distinguished career.

Hollywood Tonight, written during MJ's Invincible sessions - his last studio album in 2001 - recalls powerful, driving pop tracks like his 1995 collaboration with sister Janet, Scream.

Keep Your Head Up, one of a handful of ballads on the album, includes some sombre guitar-picking and a huge key change complete with choir. It sounds more like Earth Song than any of his previous work.

However, Best Of Joy, again a slower number, which Jackson reported was working on during the build-up to his run of concerts at London's O2, sounds incomplete and repetitive.

Beyond the individual tracks already premiered online (Breaking News, Hold My Hand and Another Day) Behind The Mask features a meandering saxophone opening and an approved sample of Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra.

With a disco beat it's the track which sounds most like The Jackson Five, with slap-funk bass and sultry vocals.

It also features vocodered vocals in the chorus.

Much Too Soon, a downbeat, reflective and, arguably, the most personal song on the album, draws the LP to a close.

"Take away this never ending sorrow/take away this lonely feeling from my soul," croons MJ.

What this album doesn't do is give fans an indication of what Jackson wanted to do with the new material he was writing, or leave clues as to his state of mind in his last few years.

However, avid Michael supporters, of which there are millions worldwide, will still be hungry to own a previously unheard piece of one of the world's greatest pop stars.

'Michael' is released in the UK December 13th.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11898874

Anyone else think that the order of the tracks suck? Hollywood Tonight is an album opener, Hold My Hand is an album closer.

Yeah, its a pretty minor issue, but still.

As for the 3 shite tracks, its not the backing vocals or "accents" I have a problem with. It's the leads. They sound like herky-jerky garbage. If its actually MJ, I'll be surprised.

And aren't these guys supposedly producers? Why were they producing shit with one of the prime vocalists/musicians of our time?

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Like I said earlier, the label didn't really have a game plan as far as that went and without Michael there, this is what you get.

Superstition said:

Anyone else think that the order of the tracks suck? Hollywood Tonight is an album opener, Hold My Hand is an album closer.

Yeah, its a pretty minor issue, but still.

As for the 3 shite tracks, its not the backing vocals or "accents" I have a problem with. It's the leads. They sound like herky-jerky garbage. If its actually MJ, I'll be surprised.

And aren't these guys supposedly producers? Why were they producing shit with one of the prime vocalists/musicians of our time?

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Money and time, the latter they felt they didn't have much of.

Timmy84 said:

BBC NEWSBEAT-First Listen: Michael Jackson's new album




50 Cent raps a verse and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl plays drums on Monster.

Sadly I have not read one review of the album yet that has been 100% factually correct.

Isn't Dave on (I can't wait) Another Day.

If they can't get these little simple fact checks right you have to wonder how much you read is correct period.

Swa said:

Timmy84 said:

BBC NEWSBEAT-First Listen: Michael Jackson's new album




50 Cent raps a verse and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl plays drums on Monster.

Sadly I have not read one review of the album yet that has been 100% factually correct.

Isn't Dave on (I can't wait) Another Day.

If they can't get these little simple fact checks right you have to wonder how much you read is correct period.

I bet none of it is.

Hey guys, where have you heard all those snippets of Hollywood tongiht and Best of Joy (or what it´s called)?

PYTDee said:

http://ellen.warnerbros.c...reURL=true

Better quality of Ellen dancing to Hollywood Tonight.

[Edited 12/3/10 15:43pm]

Ah.

Superstition said:

My favorite MJ songs are the ones where I can tell he's singing.

Timmy84 said:

Swa said:

Sadly I have not read one review of the album yet that has been 100% factually correct.

Isn't Dave on (I can't wait) Another Day.

If they can't get these little simple fact checks right you have to wonder how much you read is correct period.

I bet none of it is.

I'm wondering if even a single reviewer will say that don't feel the Casio tracks are MJ. I have a feeling most of them either don't know shit and so wont hear it or if they do believe they don't sound right will want to avoid any controversy and not bother saying anything...I hope I am wrong

dag said:

Hey guys, where have you heard all those snippets of Hollywood tongiht and Best of Joy (or what it´s called)?

Go back two pages, I think HMV Digital. For some reason now, the snippets won't play.

I've rocked this snippet so much I'll be tired of the song before I hear it in full, lol.

CPest1 said:

Timmy84 said:

I bet none of it is.

I'm wondering if even a single reviewer will say that don't feel the Casio tracks are MJ. I have a feeling most of them either don't know shit and so wont hear it or if they do believe they don't sound right will want to avoid any controversy and not bother saying anything...I hope I am wrong

Or they'll do like some reviews I've seen, and talk about the vocals on songs like Hold My Hand or Hollywood Tonight and say stuff like "They do sound questionable, but we think its MJ".

They'll question the legit tracks and not the others

I hope someone posts the snippet of "Best of Joy" on YouTube since HMV's acting like a bitch right now.

All the snippets here in good quality:

http://mjteam.pl/index.ph...atest-news

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Superstition said:

CPest1 said:

I'm wondering if even a single reviewer will say that don't feel the Casio tracks are MJ. I have a feeling most of them either don't know shit and so wont hear it or if they do believe they don't sound right will want to avoid any controversy and not bother saying anything...I hope I am wrong

Or they'll do like some reviews I've seen, and talk about the vocals on songs like Hold My Hand or Hollywood Tonight and say stuff like "They do sound questionable, but we think its MJ".

They'll question the legit tracks and not the others

I would say I will just not bother reading reviews, but it's something of a habit for me to want to read reviews for something I am looking forward to or already enjoying, to get an opinion from people who are supposed to know what they are talking about. Reading these reviews is going to suck.

I read that the album has leaked in full but it's hard to find it.......

.....I mean....not that I went looking.....

bboy87 said:

I read that the album has leaked in full but it's hard to find it.......

.....I mean....not that I went looking.....

I definitely didn't just go looking for it when I read that. Nor have I been looking for it the last few days. Furthermore I shall not be looking every couple of hours for said leak. Honest.

i just heard what suppose to be the full version of another day at a friend.

and it sound like a copy paste job with him singing the same verses and back ground vvocals from other songs kick in the end ...

motownlover said:

i just heard what suppose to be the full version of another day at a friend.

and it sound like a copy paste job with him singing the same verses and back ground vvocals from other songs kick in the end ...

That's not the full version, it's a fan made edit.

The full version has just leaked though. It was on MJJC but the thread got deleted.

I checked the main sources for new album leaks but didn't see it anywhere. I'm not gonna feel guilty about it, I pre-ordered the album anyway and it was bound to leak. As soon as I see that link I'm on it like white on some motherfucking rice.

And if any of y'all find it, you know what you need to do. Am I right? Not that I should have to tell you....