mj_frenzy;4305193 said:
Yet, he decided to include the ‘One More Chance’ song (that R. Kelly wrote) on his ‘Number Ones’ collection album even as a lead single one year later (2003).
In other threads on here you were very eager to claim to know that Sony were able to
FORCE Michael to do this and that, regarding choice of singles, ways to dress (based on one nonsense boulevard article) etc during the 'Invincible' album promo, to make him sellable again.
But surprise surprise, as soon as you see another chance to portray Michael in an unfavourable light - f*ck consistency - you suddenly forget about Sony, and now claim to know that it was solely Michaels own decision and will to release this song and release it as a single, so then you can claim this meant Michael didn't care about R. Kelly being indicted on 21 counts of child pornography.
Where's Sony in your picture?
My picture:
As we know, the R. Kelly written 'One More Chance' was an outtake from the 'Invincible' album, so Sony likely was in possession of the recording since then. It was recorded BEFORE the news about the
allegations against Kelly first broke on 21st December 2000.
It's well possible that these allegations were the exact reason for Michael to not include this potential second 'You Are Not Alone' formula success on 'Invincible' in 2001.
Fast forward to 2003....
The year earlier Michael had fallen out badly with Sony. Now Michael was in a situation that he wanted to get out of his contract with Sony as soon as possible, but still HAD to deliver 1 or 2 (?) albums / compilations to them.
We don't know to what extent it was Sony's wish (or how about "FORCE" here, frency?!) to release this song on the compilation and as a single.
From Sony's business perspective, R. Kelly was responsible for the record breaking first ever US Billboard chart entry at Number 1 with 'You Are Not Alone'. Furthermore the name of the song 'ONE more chance' simply fit perfectly to the concept of this 'Number ONEs' compilation. (Whose idea was it?)
And after the public falling out with Michael, Sony surely couldn't care less about how it made Michael look to release a song written by the indicted R. Kelly.
So, even if Michael agreed to the release of 'One More Chance', it was a very different situation compared to the 1995 'You Are Not Alone' release. For one, it was just one bonus song on a best of compilation, and it wasn't even a duet or feature with R. Kelly present in the song, which would have made it extra controversial at that time. If Sony insisted on having the song on 'Number Ones', Michael likely just gave in, simple to move on fulfilling his remaining contractual obligations with low effort.
If Michael and Sony had not fallen out, 'One More Chance' might have never been released.