It's interesting that right at the end of that interview Rodrigo mentions that the song was still planned to be released one day, Michael Prince and Eric Kirkland must've been meaning on handing it over to another artist if MJ never recorded the song. I can only imagine this leak especially is gonna hurt MP most lol.
Nearly all recent leaks did -
It will leak when it leaks... it's not like there is a specific time frame for these things to leak. Or a date to look forward to.
It doesn't surprise me that Michael didn't finish this song; it doesn't sound terribly exciting. I think there's a lot of better material slumbering in the archives.
I heard it was around 4 minutes
It's too fast. The real one is generally more groovy and has more elements to it. In other words, the creator took a really fun track and made it lame. It is 5 minutes and 1 second long.
don't forget Neverland Landing
Dark Lady, boa
Was waiting for someone to mention this lol. I couldnt remember which impersonator it was.
Strange recording. Isn't this just what was released on the 3D Promo BluRay?
The song itself isn't bad, I was talking about the sound being dated (we only have the demo to go by but it doesn't sound like it was going in any new direction)
Yeah thats what i've been saying about alot of the songs MJ worked on in the 2000s, they sound so incredibly dated for the time. Like compare the final MJ version of HT to the 2010 one its crazy how much more modern the 2010 one is, the 2008 one sounds like its from the same period as the version from nearly decade prior. It's so fascinating to me how these songs MJ worked on for so long still sounded dated while he also was seemingly wanting to lean into the 2000s/Early 2010s sound with producers like Rodney, RedOne and will.i.am. Only explanation I could think of (other than that he didn't creatively evolve much past the late 90s which ive seen some people piss their pants in anger over lol) is maybe he was going to remix the songs at the last second prior to release but that really doesn't make much sense imo. The entire streak of tracks from like 2002 - 2009 i would LOVE an entire multi-hour documentary/podcast on but that'll never happen.
The Teddy remix sounds so bad imo, but I love the demo.
Yeah it seems this take is pretty common, i always loved that version but the vocal mix is sooo bizarre. Especially on the start of the 3rd verse it sounds like he's drowning lol. My point was it does sound MUCH more for the time than the original version, despite being made only 2 years later.
I think MJ choosing Brad Buxer as his primary collaborator throughout the 2000s didn’t help much as far as artistic evolution goes. I adore Buxer and mean no disrespect, but he has a very specific sound/aesthetic that started to feel dated by the mid-decade. I think Neff-U, Akon, RedOne, and will.i.am were the people MJ should’ve spent more time with. “Hold My Hand,” for example, isn’t a groundbreaking song, but it was undeniably modern and showed that MJ could keep up.
Buxer was not going to be a hit maker. The music is nice, but it's not anything that was going to get MJ back on top of the charts.
Are you talking about the BG vocals? "Westbound Greyhound to Tinseltown, To pursue her movie star dreams"Finally some folks mentioning that..
you can hear it more clearly when checking out the a capella that was inverted from the album version.
At first i thought that was a result from the acapella filtering but later I noticed that this is also in the actual song…
But if you listen to the „throwback mix“ it’s not there… so the raw vocals were available but not for Teddy ?
I think they are referring to the weird vocal effect in the verse after the bridge. The vocal goes back to normal on the word "jeans". It's not there in the Throwback Mix
Heavenly arrangement!
Correct.
Now I hear it too. It's not in the dry vocals. The whole song is butchered with weird effects. Also mixed very weirdly, even the demo (original version).
Nah
