xuebingb
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No. Invincible will be the last
For me "Invincible" was and always will be Michael's last album... anything else is just bonus material for me! To be honest the "Michael" album had lots of problems to my eyes (which i'm not gonna even get to right now hehe) ...but ironically enough "Best Of Joy" is one of my all time favorite songs from MJ, it represents so much to me and makes me feel quite emotional in a good way everytime I hear it, so it's not all bad for new releases to come through, but it will never take the place of Michael's true finalized work done in his own hands.
No, I don't consider it a true MJ album.
Some of the songs are finished very nicely (e.g. Best Of Joy) and if all the songs were up to that quality then maybe I would consider 'Michael' to be an official Michael Jackson album.
However, the ludicrous decision to include the Cascio tracks just ruined the whole album for me. Unfortunately Mike didn't really complete much in his last years and so the 'vast' legacy of unreleased music he was reported to have left doesn't exist. Things aren't going to get any better in the future and the public seem to have completely lost interest in MJ unreleased music. I put the blame on Sony's shoulders - their decision to include the Cascio tracks and the subsequent (justified) backlash from the family and fans killed the project. I doubt the general public will ever regain any significant level of interest unless somebody can put together a catchy dance track like the 'A Little Less Conversation' remix by JXL(?) a few years ago.
It wouldn't be truely 'MJ' but it would be nice to hear MJ vocals on pop radio all the time like in the old days.
In ten, twenty years' time, when most of his latest music will have been released, you will see you were wrong. He did record enough material in the last decade for an 15 track album, an album that would be as good as any of his other solo LPs. I do not claim to be an insider, even though I've heard a few unreleased and unleaked recent tracks... that's just how it is. You'll see that the Estate fucked this up even more than you imagined.
Of coure there's not enough material for dozens of albums, there are no hundreds of songs as have been reported by the tabloids. However, there was enough brilliant work for this project, and it's just a shame it was handled the way it was.
There was no album completed by Michael himself, but all that was needed was a person with some common sense and creativity to make one.
I don't. Any albums that are released now are just posthumous albums to me. Don't get me wrong i'm interested in hearing new MJ music but for me the last official album will always be Invincible