Michael - The Great Album Debate

And that explains all Jason's vocal characteristics that are present on the original untouched vocals how exactly?

I don't think anyone has the raw vocals. I believe even the stolen songs to be at least the versions that Cascio's edited/processed. They might not be the finished versions but I don't believe them to be the raw vocals either.

Other organized actions exist such as:

-act united (it's crucial), all MJ fan websites should have continued with the petitions due to the controversy

example tribute concert :close to 50 sites joined. they still did what they wanted to do.

-write publicly to the press relentlessly about our controversy
-ask the press to interview all the people supposedly involved with a list of questions that we would make all together

it's a year old event. they made the story, it's old news now. and no major media will make criminal accusations - ie fraud.

-write public and open letters to SONY/Estate to clear things up till they react

already done

-in the case of this web site not bow under SONY's pressure and make this thread visible to the general public

watch it. you are going into dangerous claims. I explained it over and over again. There's a group of users that do not want to see this topic and it's a controversy. that's why it's here. any accusations about MJJC wouldn't bring you anything.

-forensic analysts' addresses are public, we could send them the samples of our comparisons around the world and simply ask them if our approach is conclusive, at least some of them would probably respond

you could try. maximum jackson as least tried. they were told by experts there was no grounds and that probably other expert reports were right and they were leading the experts with the comparisons.

-build and multiply the number of websites regarding the controversy till they respond in accordance with our demands to clear things up

you could try

-ask SONY/Estate to render their analyses public, at least partially or complete, they should have nothing to hide regarding this issue

as I said we have already asked. I know that multiple other people asked as well. I believe even Pentum asked them. They said no.

Are you saying that Michael couldn't sing a simple line "you're breaking the news", he would sing only portions of lines? Or are you saying that MJ needed that many takes for a single line despite the fact that he could record entire portions of songs in one take?

I'm saying that you clearly do not know how guide vocals or demos works.

Real life example: The vocalist I worked with would get the ideas down on recording and he would record some lyrics as mumbling, some parts as harmony, sometimes while singing he would stop and talk to the person that's recording to give directions and then pick up from another line and even stop to smoke and drink.

that's how guide vocals are done. do you remember MJ's Billie Jean guide vocals "buttercup a day"? Do you remember MJ shouting commands, do you remember the recording with the boards falling on to him? Assume that you were going to come up with a finished and releasable song from those takes. What would you do? Oh yeah cut- copy - paste right? how did they do the biggie's second posthumous album? took verses from different songs and combined them. again cut -copy -paste.

I'm saying that perhaps he did multiple takes like that and they combined (cut and pasted) those takes to come up with the finished song.

such as john lennon song - he recorded it to a tape recorder and some parts were low quality (perhaps he simply stepped one step away from the recorder), they filled in those parts with Paul McCartney.

To me it shows that they didn't have access to the singer to re-record. In my mind there's no logical reason that they couldn't do 2222 takes with Jason to get one single line out - especially if he's that good to fool experts and musicians and fans.
 
Thanks Ivy. It just makes more sense that MJ would record these songs than a imposter.
If you listen to "In the Back" you can hear where MJ isnt singing words, its just mumbling, MJ gibberish, etc. If they wanted to finish that song, im sure they would use copy and paste.

Cant anyone assume the possiblity that Michael just recorded these to record? Maybe he didnt feel like singing these songs but didnt have the heart to tell his cascio friend?
 
I don't think anyone has the raw vocals. I believe even the stolen songs to be at least the versions that Cascio's edited/processed. They might not be the finished versions but I don't believe them to be the raw vocals either
Ah, so you still believe all vocals on all the Cascio songs are edited /processed... I can tell you that they are not. Listen to All I Need and Black Widow for example. There are no processing. This is how the voice of the singer sounds like when trying to copy MJ as much as he can.

Cant anyone assume the possiblity that Michael just recorded these to record? Maybe he didnt feel like singing these songs but didnt have the heart to tell his cascio friend?
No matter how much you twist it, it doesn't make him sound like someone else! Didn't "feel like singing"... Listen to "and tell me you like what you seeeeeee" in Monster, how is this not "feeling like singing? The singer is cleraly doing his best, trying to stay on tune.
 
Ah, so you still believe all vocals on all the Cascio songs are edited /processed... I can tell you that they are not. Listen to All I Need and Black Widow for example. There are no processing. This is how the voice of the singer sounds like when trying to copy MJ as much as he can.

ask any professional musician and they would tell you that the best processing is when it sounds like there's no processing. Even editing and mixing is a form of processing. I'm saying that no one has the raw acapella vocals - which MJ estate said used in the expert testing. so what you have and compare isn't the same thing as what estate/sony/ musicians had and compared.
 
It's so obviously blatantly Jason Malachi, people. It IS Jason Malachi. I'm 100% certain. It's not Michael Jackson! SORRY! :) Much respect for all of you, though.
 
example tribute concert :close to 50 sites joined. they still did what they wanted to do.

In other words you are saying "let's give up"? No way Ivy.



it's a year old event. they made the story, it's old news now. and no major media will make criminal accusations - ie fraud.

1) It si not old news as long as it is an ongoing battle to know what happened!
2) No one talked about accusations but about pressuring to reveal what happened into more details than what we have at our disposal.
3) No one is shouting fraud. We are shouting "CONTROVERSY, CLEAR IT UP!"



already done

So you give up. What has been done is not enough. The way I see it NOTHING has been done untill the problem hasn't been solved completely.



watch it. you are going into dangerous claims. I explained it over and over again. There's a group of users that do not want to see this topic and it's a controversy. that's why it's here. any accusations about MJJC wouldn't bring you anything.

I am not going into any dangerous claims. I am saying that this thread is not a public thread. Are you saying the opposite? Prove it.
I am not accusing MJJC, I am saying that when there is a problem it should be solved and not hidden from the public eye. It's not because there's a controversy that it shouldn't be public. Why hiding it? We all a&re complaining about the controversy,not only the believers, we all want this problem to be solved out. If you hide the problem, you will never solve it.



you could try. maximum jackson as least tried. they were told by experts there was no grounds and that probably other expert reports were right and they were leading the experts with the comparisons.

Ivy, this is not the court of law, nothing is "leading" for God's sake! It's a simple question to the forensics "do they hear Malachi or Jackson" it is as simple as that. You can try to lead them with another voice, it wouldn't work. But this controversial voice is the essence of the debate, so it is logical to ask the forensics if they hear Malachi. If it is leading and they say yes it is Malachi, then something is obviously terribly wrong. It would mean that they actually can't make the difference at all, leading or not.



you could try

Thanks for the advice, that's all I needed.



as I said we have already asked. I know that multiple other people asked as well. I believe even Pentum asked them. They said no.

So once more you give up. Well, we do not take "no" as an answer. We demand in the name of MJ's legacy to show us the report and more details.



I'm saying that you clearly do not know how guide vocals or demos works.

Oh really? What about all the artists and musicians who do know and who say the same as I do regarding the vocals on those Cascio tracks? They also do not clearly know how guide vocals and demos work? In other words, you know better than any of the musician and artists taht are involved in this debate here?

Real life example: The vocalist I worked with would get the ideas down on recording and he would record some lyrics as mumbling, some parts as harmony, sometimes while singing he would stop and talk to the person that's recording to give directions and then pick up from another line and even stop to smoke and drink.

Something that we do not have on the Cascio tracks.

that's how guide vocals are done. do you remember MJ's Billie Jean guide vocals "buttercup a day"? Do you remember MJ shouting commands, do you remember the recording with the boards falling on to him? Assume that you were going to come up with a finished and releasable song from those takes. What would you do? Oh yeah cut- copy - paste right? how did they do the biggie's second posthumous album? took verses from different songs and combined them. again cut -copy -paste.

Yes, but the copy pasted voice sounds identical to the one that recorded the demo. In our case we have copy pastes in the middle of the sentences with two different voices which the company wants to make us believe it's the same. I heard many MJ's demos, I never doubted it was him. The copy-paste issue is one thing, the different voice is another, not to mention that entire verses on the Cascio songs do not sound Michael at all and all of sudden you hear in the middle of the sentence a voice that sounds like Michael.

I'm saying that perhaps he did multiple takes like that and they combined (cut and pasted) those takes to come up with the finished song.

He did multiple takes with a voice that doesn't sound usual Michael on 12 songs? How did he do that?

such as john lennon song - he recorded it to a tape recorder and some parts were low quality (perhaps he simply stepped one step away from the recorder), they filled in those parts with Paul McCartney.

Which is a logical choice, another Beatle. Here we have an amateur guy Porte out of nowhere who comes to support MJ's professional voice on several songs. "Very logical".

To me it shows that they didn't have access to the singer to re-record. In my mind there's no logical reason that they couldn't do 2222 takes with Jason to get one single line out - especially if he's that good to fool experts and musicians and fans.

Oh you don't need for 2222 takes to answer your "logical" mind. I'll give you one simple reason - the more MJ's pasted words are in the songs sung by Malachi, the easier it gets to fool people. However they had to limit a number of copy pastes or else it would have sounded just like "take me away" which at least is 100% Michael Jackson.
 
In other words you are saying "let's give up"? No way Ivy.

no. I'm saying that you can ask but not demand. and even if you ask it doesn't mean you'll get what you want.

1) It si not old news as long as it is an ongoing battle to know what happened!

you clearly do not know how media operates. that album was released a year ago. from media's perspective that's old news.

2) No one talked about accusations but about pressuring to reveal what happened into more details than what we have at our disposal.
3) No one is shouting fraud. We are shouting "CONTROVERSY, CLEAR IT UP!"

I wouldn't say no one is shouting fraud. saying it's "100% malachi" is saying it's fraud. you might be the minority if you classify it as "controversy", majority of the doubters classify it as blatant and intentional fraud. that's a criminal accusation and base for defamation in US.



So you give up. What has been done is not enough. The way I see it NOTHING has been done untill the problem hasn't been solved completely.

if it didn't happen the first time the chance that it would happen this much late is a lot less.





I am not going into any dangerous claims. I am saying that this thread is not a public thread. Are you saying the opposite? Prove it.
I am not accusing MJJC, I am saying that when there is a problem it should be solved and not hidden from the public eye. It's not because there's a controversy that it shouldn't be public. Why hiding it? We all a&re complaining about the controversy,not only the believers, we all want this problem to be solved out. If you hide the problem, you will never solve it.

and I explained it why. you and I might be still interested in this topic but there's also another group that isn't. also this thread went through several processes. the controversy was initially all over a section, then it was limited to 4 threads, then it was limited to 1 thread, later it's removed to this section. the album section is also closed and some topics are moved to other sections. That's the natural process of a topic goes through.





Ivy, this is not the court of law, nothing is "leading" for God's sake! It's a simple question to the forensics "do they hear Malachi or Jackson" it is as simple as that. You can try to lead them with another voice, it wouldn't work. But this controversial voice is the essence of the debate, so it is logical to ask the forensics if they hear Malachi. If it is leading and they say yes it is Malachi, then something is obviously terribly wrong. It would mean that they actually can't make the difference at all, leading or not.

Well I'm not the one that said it. Maximum Jackson has contacted this expert in UK and he said asking to compare it to Malachi would be leading and introduce bias. So please take your issues with him and not me.


So once more you give up. Well, we do not take "no" as an answer. We demand in the name of MJ's legacy to show us the report and more details.

and what are you doing if you are not taking no as an answer? write on this thread ? write on twitter? curse frank cascio on twitter (not you personally)? so really what's being done about this ?




Oh really? What about all the artists and musicians who do know and who say the same as I do regarding the vocals on those Cascio tracks? They also do not clearly know how guide vocals and demos work? In other words, you know better than any of the musician and artists taht are involved in this debate here?

did I say that? I said my personal experience , backed it up with examples from Michael's recordings and told what I found plausible and not plausible.

and personally I haven't heard any musicians and artists comment on the "copy -paste" issue. They commented on the vocals but not copy paste.


Something that we do not have on the Cascio tracks.

how can you know it is copy pasted to get it out? how would you know that michael didn't sing "buttercup a day" and they replaced it with the copy paste "breaking the news"?

He did multiple takes with a voice that doesn't sound usual Michael on 12 songs? How did he do that?

that he doesn't sound like Michael is your subjective opinion. and processing

Which is a logical choice, another Beatle. Here we have an amateur guy Porte out of nowhere who comes to support MJ's professional voice on several songs. "Very logical".

which again shows you that these are the original songs and not worked on songs. why wouldn't they replace porte with someone else if the goal is to fool people? have you ever considered perhaps some of porte's vocals were unremoveable? like cascio's already processed them to a mix?



Oh you don't need for 2222 takes to answer your "logical" mind. I'll give you one simple reason - the more MJ's pasted words are in the songs sung by Malachi, the easier it gets to fool people. However they had to limit a number of copy pastes or else it would have sounded just like "take me away" which at least is 100% Michael Jackson.

you can't say that they succeeded right? aren't you all focusing on copy pastes? so they did a crappy job that was the perfect crime? Naah I don't think so.
 
In my opinion, even if there is no impersonator involved, these songs are still a disgrace. The way these songs are fabricated is a slap on Michael's face. We all have read and learnt a lot about Michael Jackson, the musician. We all know that the perfectionist aimed to make each one of his song as "perfect as humanly possible" and he put quality ahead of quantity and profitability. Think about it, the man held onto Earth Song for seven years. He didn't release it until he felt the music is right. The level of commitment and integrity Michael had is beyond admirable. I don't know how many times I'm reduced to tears when I read about Michael's work ethics. I'm both touched and inspired by him.

These songs, even if 100% authentic, are still not genuine. It seems most of us here acknowledge that these Cascio tracks are just barely-there demos with sketchy vocals recorded in a sub-standard environment that are overly produced. These songs, in the condition they were in, would never ever see the light of the day if Michael were still here. So, just 18 months after he left us, people have already felt it's okay to manipulate his demos/guide vocals in the name of releasing a posthumous album. These songs are everything opposite how Michael Jackson created his masterpieces - works he sacrificed so much to create to carry himself to immortality.

Most fans are upset about the way his children are being raised now because we believe Michael would not like the exposure and spotlights the children are getting. We believe it's against Michael's wish. Parallely, isn't the way these highly processed/edited/manipulated/fabricated songs that somehow got approved by his Estate aginst Michael's artistic integrity? We respect Michael, the father. How come we turn a blind eye on Michael, the powerful artist?

Just becasue all other posthumous albums are being produced in similar manipulative manner does not justify what they did with the unreleasable demos. It's close to impossible for me to enjoy or even like these dressed up demos knowing how they are against what Michael would have done. I accept the sad reality that he's gone. But, it's difficult to accept the way things are being done after he's gone.

For people who enjoy the songs, good for you. I wish I can enjoy them as much as you can and I really mean it. Absolutely no punch here.
 
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no. I'm saying that you can ask but not demand. and even if you ask it doesn't mean you'll get what you want.



you clearly do not know how media operates. that album was released a year ago. from media's perspective that's old news.



I wouldn't say no one is shouting fraud. saying it's "100% malachi" is saying it's fraud. you might be the minority if you classify it as "controversy", majority of the doubters classify it as blatant and intentional fraud. that's a criminal accusation and base for defamation in US.





if it didn't happen the first time the chance that it would happen this much late is a lot less.







and I explained it why. you and I might be still interested in this topic but there's also another group that isn't. also this thread went through several processes. the controversy was initially all over a section, then it was limited to 4 threads, then it was limited to 1 thread, later it's removed to this section. the album section is also closed and some topics are moved to other sections. That's the natural process of a topic goes through.







Well I'm not the one that said it. Maximum Jackson has contacted this expert in UK and he said asking to compare it to Malachi would be leading and introduce bias. So please take your issues with him and not me.




and what are you doing if you are not taking no as an answer? write on this thread ? write on twitter? curse frank cascio on twitter (not you personally)? so really what's being done about this ?






did I say that? I said my personal experience , backed it up with examples from Michael's recordings and told what I found plausible and not plausible.

and personally I haven't heard any musicians and artists comment on the "copy -paste" issue. They commented on the vocals but not copy paste.




how can you know it is copy pasted to get it out? how would you know that michael didn't sing "buttercup a day" and they replaced it with the copy paste "breaking the news"?



that he doesn't sound like Michael is your subjective opinion. and processing



which again shows you that these are the original songs and not worked on songs. why wouldn't they replace porte with someone else if the goal is to fool people? have you ever considered perhaps some of porte's vocals were unremoveable? like cascio's already processed them to a mix?





you can't say that they succeeded right? aren't you all focusing on copy pastes? so they did a crappy job that was the perfect crime? Naah I don't think so.

I don't have time to answer all the points right now. I'll come back later. But to make it short, in order to claim what you claim you clearly have never heard the a cappella of Breaking News. You should.

By the way your "watch it" in the previous post I perceive as if you are threatening me. You can debate and counter-argue my opinion as vehemently as you want, I have no problem with that, but I don't appreciate at all your threatening tone. If you wanna ban me do it without threats.
 
I don't have time to answer all the points right now. I'll come back later. But to make it short, in order to claim what you claim you clearly have never heard the a cappella of Breaking News. You should.

is that the actual raw acapella or that someone removed the music from the song?

By the way your "watch it" in the previous post I perceive as if you are threatening me. You can debate and counter-argue my opinion as vehemently as you want, I have no problem with that, but I don't appreciate at all your threatening tone. If you wanna ban me do it without threats.

The rule of thumb for the last months have been to ban anyone who claimed MJJC to be under the control of Sony / Estate. Just 3 days ago someone was banned for saying if we were working for the Estate when we posted a statement from them. So those part of your post is dangerous waters my friend. and it was a warning - not a threat - so that you wouldn't get banned. and believe me if I wanted to ban you, I would have done it with no threats and warnings. It was only because I didn't want you to get banned.
 
is that the actual raw acapella or that someone removed the music from the song?

It doesn't matter, just listen to it and you'll understand what I was talking about.



The rule of thumb for the last months have been to ban anyone who claimed MJJC to be under the control of Sony / Estate. Just 3 days ago someone was banned for saying if we were working for the Estate when we posted a statement from them. So those part of your post is dangerous waters my friend. and it was a warning - not a threat - so that you wouldn't get banned. and believe me if I wanted to ban you, I would have done it with no threats and warnings. It was only because I didn't want you to get banned.

I did not break any rule, neither did I claim that MJJC worked for the Estate/SONY anywhere in any of my posts since 2003, the year I joined this web site. Now, I don't need any warning for not breaking the rules. Thanks. I am straightforward, if I wanted to say that MJJC worked for SONY or the Estate I would say it straight. You got confused between my argument of rendering this thread public which has nothing to do with your warning you are claiming you are issuing. So if you are telling me to "watch it" for something I didn't do, I am telling you to "watch" your tone. Debate, criticize and do whatever you want with my opinions, as I said I have no problem with that, but if you start turning against my person, then end it right now.
 
It doesn't matter, just listen to it and you'll understand what I was talking about.

I did listen to the fan made (music removed) acapella - to me some parts sounded even more like Michael. and how hard is it to understand that it's subjective?


I did not break any rule, neither did I claim that MJJC worked for the Estate/SONY anywhere in any of my posts since 2003, the year I joined this web site.


in the case of this web site not bow under SONY's pressure and make this thread visible to the general public

you are making a challenge and a claim. this thread is in this section and will stay in this section (as of now). so would it mean that we are bowing to Sony? that's a borderline dangerous claim as I said.

btw - sony did not send us any requests and pressure to where to place this thread. any allegation of somehow our behavior is controlled by sony would be dangerous.

So you know they are processed because they do not sound like being processed :doh:

no. all I said was just because they sounded unprocessed to Pentum doesn't mean that they are unprocessed. sorry I don't agree with the "magic ears" and "i know it all" and "because I said so" theories. the level of processing could only be determined by comparing the raw vocals to the final vocals.
 
So how come the vocals on WBSS 2008, which were recorded in the same place and at the same time, and have some processing on them sound fine?

Is there anyone who really believes that the vocals on Water, which frankly sound like a dying cat, are those of Michael Jackson? What is your opinion on the vocals from Water Ivy?
 
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I did listen to the fan made (music removed) acapella - to me some parts sounded even more like Michael. and how hard is it to understand that it's subjective?

There is a threshold where the subjectivity stops and self-persuasion begins. With your claim then anything is subjective. Santa Claus exists.





in the case
of this web site not bow under SONY's pressure and make this thread visible to the general public

you are making a challenge and a claim. this thread is in this section and will stay in this section (as of now). so would it mean that we are bowing to Sony? that's a borderline dangerous claim as I said.

btw - sony did not send us any requests and pressure to where to place this thread. any allegation of somehow our behavior is controlled by sony would be dangerous.



no. all I said was just because they sounded unprocessed to Pentum doesn't mean that they are unprocessed. sorry I don't agree with the "magic ears" and "i know it all" and "because I said so" theories. the level of processing could only be determined by comparing the raw vocals to the final vocals.


There are two different things I said:

SONY pressuring all of us

and this thread being away from the public eye. I don't see ant correlation between SONY and the reason this thread is in the hidden part. So don't twist my words.

I agree not to leak or post leaked material as it's stolen and even understand SONY on that part, but I don't understand this thread being hidden. So in a way we are enduring some kind of pressure. I never said anything you claimed I said, and still your warning was completely misplaced. I am not your student to tell me to watch it for expressing my opinion.
 
Ah forget it..

Lol. I read it and your right. Are we supposed to believe that they processed vocals like Water, Fall In Love and Ready To Win so that they are deliberately out of tune? I'm still waiting for someone to explain how processing changes a persons pronounciation.
 
Lol. I read it and your right. Are we supposed to believe that they processed vocals like Water, Fall In Love and Ready To Win so that they are deliberately out of tune? I'm still waiting for someone to explain how processing changes a persons pronounciation.

It doesnt. and the word "Processing" is such a general word....i think it could mean anything.
{copy paste, word inserting, autotune - melodyne, speed, pitch etc editing.}
 
All this back and forth bickering, with the doubters asking questions and the believers either remaining silent or replying with the words from a higher entity, almost reminds me of the lyrics of "Sound of Silence".

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools," said I, "you do not know"
Silence like a cancer grows
"Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sound of silence


 
Also, I've debated enough to know that there is no way you are getting somewhere when talking with Ivy. She could keep me writing all night long!

and why do you single me out? Do you really believe that there's the chance of "getting somewhere" with people who says "it's malachi I bet my life on it"? It just shows that we are all pretty confident in regards to our opinions and stick to them no matter what. Again singling me out like there's something wrong with me is so uncalled for.

Simply accept the fact that I don't think the way you do and I cannot be that easily influenced to change my mind as I believe myself to be strong individual person.

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sony is not pressuring me. sony had not pressured MJJC to remove this topic and/or limit this discussion in any way. honestly in none of our conversations the discussion of the controversy has been mentioned.

the only complaint from sony was towards the leaking of the songs which they held the copyrights. Which wasn't any different then any "pressuring" we received when Google contacted us and asked us to remove links to a copyrighted TV show posted in off topic discussion thread. which is not any different than a person is contacting us and asking to be properly sourced or have their work removed (in terms of copy paste posts).

there's "no pressure" on us to keep this thread "hidden". Like I said we had a "michael album" section which had all the controversy available to the public, later the tone became too destructive we limited the discussion to 4 threads (one general and 3 threads for the songs), later it was reduced to 1 thread from 4, later the album became old news and that section was archived and this thread is removed to controversy and kept alive as there were still people wanted to discuss it.

and as a staff of MJJC I do not even like slightest innuendo of we are bowing to anything Sony says. Your dearest friend Pentum can tell us how his unbanning happened despite the requests.
 
Also, I've debated enough to know that there is no way you are getting somewhere when talking with Ivy. She could keep me writing all night long!

and why do you single me out? Do you really believe that there's the chance of "getting somewhere" with people who says "it's malachi I bet my life on it"? It just shows that we are all pretty confident in regards to our opinions and stick to them no matter what. Again singling me out like there's something wrong with me is so uncalled for.

Simply accept the fact that I don't think the way you do and I cannot be that easily influenced to change my mind as I believe myself to be strong individual person.

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@bumper

sony is not pressuring me. sony had not pressured MJJC to remove this topic and/or limit this discussion in any way. honestly in none of our conversations the discussion of the controversy has been mentioned.

the only complaint from sony was towards the leaking of the songs which they held the copyrights. Which wasn't any different then any "pressuring" we received when Google contacted us and asked us to remove links to a copyrighted TV show posted in off topic discussion thread. which is not any different than a person is contacting us and asking to be properly sourced or have their work removed (in terms of copy paste posts).

there's "no pressure" on us to keep this thread "hidden". Like I said we had a "michael album" section which had all the controversy available to the public, later the tone became too destructive we limited the discussion to 4 threads (one general and 3 threads for the songs), later it was reduced to 1 thread from 4, later the album became old news and that section was archived and this thread is removed to controversy and kept alive as there were still people wanted to discuss it.

and as a staff of MJJC I do not even like slightest innuendo of we are bowing to anything Sony says. Your dearest friend Pentum can tell us how his unbanning happened despite the requests.
 
Ivy - have you based your conclusions on hearing all the original demos and all the songs? Not just the Michaeled up versions but the originals?
 
I'm back, so I have a little time to answer your points.

no. I'm saying that you can ask but not demand. and even if you ask it doesn't mean you'll get what you want.

Ask or demand is not actually important in itself, what is important is not to take "no" as an answer.

you clearly do not know how media operates. that album was released a year ago. from media's perspective that's old news.

I clearly don't know anything I am a dumb.

On a serious note, you seem to mix things up. The release of the new album is old news. The controversy when BN was streamed is old news. The report written by the Estate is old news. But the debate triggered by the controversy is not over. And it is clear that if we hide the debate it will be forgotten by the media and labeled as old news. MJ's death is old news too, yet it is re-ignited by Dr. Murray trial and it's all over on the news again. It's not hidden in some kind of invisible thread to the public eye.



I wouldn't say no one is shouting fraud. saying it's "100% malachi" is saying it's fraud. you might be the minority if you classify it as "controversy", majority of the doubters classify it as blatant and intentional fraud. that's a criminal accusation and base for defamation in US.

U.S. or not, the MJ's fans are not limited to the U.S. jurisdiction nor territory. As far as I know, even this site is not American, it's British if I am not wrong. If SONY/Estate refuse to publish the details of the report done by the forensics it is a completely logical outcome that the fans will draw their own conclusions and indeed shout FRAUD! If SONY/Estate have nothing to hide, then they should publish the reports and shut the fans' mouths rather than chase them on youtube and spy on them in the forums.

if it didn't happen the first time the chance that it would happen this much late is a lot less.

Giving-up attitude again? You know there are some people who would say: "Nobody could do it, so I must do it". And there are others who would say "Nobody could do it, so how do you expect me to do it." Your posts reflects rather this second attitude.

and I explained it why. you and I might be still interested in this topic but there's also another group that isn't. also this thread went through several processes. the controversy was initially all over a section, then it was limited to 4 threads, then it was limited to 1 thread, later it's removed to this section. the album section is also closed and some topics are moved to other sections. That's the natural process of a topic goes through.

First, it is not a natural process to put all the threads in a hidden forum. According to your logic the entire news section would be hidden now because it's old news.

Second, if I follow your logic regarding subjectivity-objectivity, then you should put Dr. Murray's trial in the controversy thread too, since there is a lawsuit and a debate within the lawsuit.

Third, this isn't about you and me, nor any fans, nor this web site, nor this thread, it is all about Michael Jackson. We are facing the biggest problem ever in MJ's musical history and career because of SONY/Estate, and some fans still can ignoringly enjoy those tracks without wanting to know what really happened.

No matter how you turn it inside out or upside down, but there is one undeniable OBJECTIVE fact:

We do not know a damn thing about those songs. We do not have a slightest proof they are Michael's, we do not have the report from the forensic, we do not have any raw acappellas or raw demos or worktapes, not a damn thing. These facts are undeniable, yet immensly important to convince the public opinion. How does SONY or Estate expect to convince us without any recorded evidence or proof? Only by writing a poor little summarized report and by Oprah's show where Eddie and Teddy all they had to say was "it is Michael" and showing a picture of an empty studio? I am sorry, but all they did was "LEADING" without a slightest proof to back it up. Yet you are telling me that asking forensics if Malachi's singing would be leading?

If I pointed my finger at the moon and asked you if this was planet Mars, how would you react? You would say that my question was "leading" when you can clearly see the difference between the moon and Mars?


Well I'm not the one that said it. Maximum Jackson has contacted this expert in UK and he said asking to compare it to Malachi would be leading and introduce bias. So please take your issues with him and not me.

In other words that forensic purely couldn't make the difference between the two. It is not because someone is a forensic that he or she must follow the same rules out of court such as asking question if it's Malachi. Saying that the question is leading to me would be the same as if someone couldn't make the difference between the moon and Mars when asking "Is this Mars?" while pointing at the moon.

and what are you doing if you are not taking no as an answer? write on this thread ? write on twitter? curse frank cascio on twitter (not you personally)? so really what's being done about this ?

I am going to continue to send e-mails. As long as I don't get the answer, those songs are non-Michael Jackson songs to me and I certainly will spread that around me be it on the forums or in my classrooms, schools and institutions to all those who are interested in the subject. SONY/Estate attitude of "no" will certainly fire back as a bad-publicity boomerang. The day they give me the proof, I'll correct my statement and inform people around me. Other doubters probably do the same around them.

did I say that? I said my personal experience , backed it up with examples from Michael's recordings and told what I found plausible and not plausible.

How do you know from your own experience how Michael recorded? There is no correlation between the two.

and personally I haven't heard any musicians and artists comment on the "copy -paste" issue. They commented on the vocals but not copy paste.

Copy-paste is not the issue in itself. The issue IS the leading vocal that does not sound identical within the same song. Be it copy-pasted or directly recorded for the song, it has been addressed by the musicians by saying that something is wrong with the vocals. And it is. But not to you apparently.

how can you know it is copy pasted to get it out? how would you know that michael didn't sing "buttercup a day" and they replaced it with the copy paste "breaking the news"?

Because you can clearly hear the cuts. My ear is trained enough to know when a person says a sentence vs. when a person breaks the sentences into separated words. I teach students not to do that and I hear it on Breaking News, but not becaus ethe person decided to break his sentence into words, but because the words have been cut and pasted to majke a sentence. It is as obvious as "Take me away" fabrication. It has nothing to do with the subjectivity.

that he doesn't sound like Michael is your subjective opinion. and processing

No Ivy. Subjectivity is when you out of blue say something you believe it's true. Objectivity is when you observe things and draw conclusions. I have observed MJ for decades. And after those decades I can say with confidence when I hear Michael. I have observed also another singer that sounds like Michael -- Malachi. I am still astonished how close he can sound to Michael's voice. When I observe the Cascio tracks and MIchael Jackson's previous songs, they do not sound the same voice. When I observe Malachi's voice and the voice on the Cascio tracks the voice does sound more like Malachi than Jackson.

It is pure observation.

Now, I can draw conclusions:

A) MJ sang those songs, but I am unable to recognize MJ's voice any more
B) Jason Malachi sang them so I clearly heard it

Now if I have such a dilemma all I can do is turn to SONY/Estate and require the full report made by the forensics. They refuse.

Well, between my conclusion A or B, they don't give me a choice, do they -- I don't recognize Michael, although I recognize Michael in post 2007 recordings.

What is subjective here? Nothing. I try to be as objective as possible, but I bascally don't have any choice but rely on what I hear and not on what the official statement wants me to make believe without a single proof.

Finally, their forensic conclusion isn't any more objective that is my life experience in listening to Michael's voice.


which again shows you that these are the original songs and not worked on songs. why wouldn't they replace porte with someone else if the goal is to fool people? have you ever considered perhaps some of porte's vocals were unremoveable? like cascio's already processed them to a mix?

Oh I certainly have considered that Porte is entirely integrated into those songs and I am not denying it, but I wonder if you have considered that the lead vocals are not Michael's, which is the issue here actually.

you can't say that they succeeded right? aren't you all focusing on copy pastes? so they did a crappy job that was the perfect crime? Naah I don't think so.

Well they did do a crappy job, but not only regarding the copy-pastes, but also regarding the lyrics, copied melodies from other songs, not to mention the voice timbre and the accent of the singer.
 
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sony is not pressuring me. sony had not pressured MJJC to remove this topic and/or limit this discussion in any way. honestly in none of our conversations the discussion of the controversy has been mentioned.

I didn't claim SONY pressured MJJC to hide this thread. Stop repeating that as if I said that. I said SONY is pressuring fans especially when removing comparisons on youtube. I said that this thread should be public so that the people know what's going on among MJ's fans.

the only complaint from sony was towards the leaking of the songs which they held the copyrights. Which wasn't any different then any "pressuring" we received when Google contacted us and asked us to remove links to a copyrighted TV show posted in off topic discussion thread. which is not any different than a person is contacting us and asking to be properly sourced or have their work removed (in terms of copy paste posts).

Ok, I didn't say anything regarding that.

there's "no pressure" on us to keep this thread "hidden". Like I said we had a "michael album" section which had all the controversy available to the public, later the tone became too destructive we limited the discussion to 4 threads (one general and 3 threads for the songs), later it was reduced to 1 thread from 4, later the album became old news and that section was archived and this thread is removed to controversy and kept alive as there were still people wanted to discuss it.

You really stick to things I did not say. I don't even know why you are saying this to me.

and as a staff of MJJC I do not even like slightest innuendo of we are bowing to anything Sony says. Your dearest friend Pentum can tell us how his unbanning happened despite the requests.

Staff of MJJC or not you are not any different than any of us, so stop throwing your staff title into my face as if you were any different. And again you are saying things I did not say, your comments start to get repetitive about things I didn't say. I am not the innuendo guy when it comes to debates, I say what I have to say without innuendos. So don't you "watch it" to me.
 
Could you clear some things up?

A) What has the vibrato got to do with the shower environment?
B) Does it mean that Jason Malachi who has exactly the same vibrato recorded all his songs in the shower environment too?



Are you saying that MJ tried not to sound as usual on 12 songs in order to do a new innovative thing, but never planned to play a single note of it for This Is It show and never talked to anybody about those songs, yet we've seen him in the studio with Will I am?



So when you see something written for you it is enough to believe it is a fact?



Ok, have you heard the version before it was melodyned? I haven't.



Ok, have you heard the songs before they were overproduced? I haven't.



The so called demos aren't different, they're simply richer in copy pastes from previous songs such as "what about us" that was removed from KYHU.



The voice does change, but after decades of career it bonifies, it doesn't need melodyne. Furthermore, if it changes it doesn't mutate into unrecognizable voice in 2007 and then back to usual voice in 2009.



First, with all erased traces of proof they risk nothing at all. Second, SONY does not care about MJ as an artist, they care about themselves and uses MJ's name as a label to advertize their own company rather than they would advertize MJ. Try it for yourself. Invest some money in a product and stick a renown name to your product, it'll sell.



I know who's the best football club in the last world cup. I know who's one of the best scientists in the 20th century. I know who's been voted the best musician, singer, band, author, prize nobelist, doctor of medicine, etc in different years and domains.

Now you tell me first who determines who is the best forensic musicologist? And second, if they are the best we should automatically know their names. You know, forensic people's contact address is public, so tell me who they are?

Regarding Bruce, he's not a musicologist. He even couldn't remember who wrote the song Childhood whereas any MJ fan knows it. That shows how well the fans know MJ vs Bruce.



I asked that same question back in 1993 and 2003 when two families whom he considered as his own stabbed him in the back and eventually caused MJ to die so soon. He was tremendously affected. The Cascios just didn't take advantage of MJ when he was alive, they're taking advantage of him now that he's dead. Isn't Frank Cascio writing a book?
If each MJ's friend wrote a book about MJ, we'd have a whole library of books on MJ.




They did not take any risk actually, they're untouchable and covered. Plus, they have people who believe them and who are backing them. Among those people you have MJ fans.

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I don't know what to say you have a very nice imagination you want more proof I guess sue Sony.
 
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