Well, that's it. The credit of trust is used up. That's now completely turning into some kind of commercial mess. Like I believe there was a person above this all who said "Ok, we've got some unreleased material by Michael Jackson, it's outdated and we've got to make it sound modern so that people will buy it. Our main criteria is modernity and everything else is following".
The work is done soooo damn bad, I've heard stuff from amateurs that sound MUCH more professional than this. Like... I don't know, 'Bad' Remix by Tag Team, for example (that's just the first thing that popped up in my mind, I haven't listened to many remixes). It sounds 10 times more Michaelish (and well, pretty modern too, although I first heard it like 5 or 6 years ago and I think it wasn't new then) than everything from Xscape yet. Considering there already was a finished version of the song that was done by Michael himself and sounded outstanding, and it's gonna be the one to compare to after listening, I think those Tag Team guys did much better job than those who do Xscape. And still there should be people who could do it even more professionally.
So whoever is capable of the stuff for Xscape (and those might not be actually the ones who do the songs, I don't who, but there's got to be someone behind this mess, some kind of crappy manager who knows nothing about music) doesn't FEEL what Michael was about. He was not about making stuff that sounds up-to-date. He was about being himself and making music that he felt, that later turned into standards and pulled apart into ideas. So of course it's impossible to 100% clearly reproduce Michael's style of arranging a song, but it could be WAY, WAY better than this.
I may just not be a fan of popular modern music (actually, I think of it as of a bullsh*t), but I can only imagine Michael facepalming, bowing his head and laughing at the same time listening to the Xscape.
That's it, I'm done whining. Sorry for this heartfelt cry, I had to write it.
