I cannot stand Teddy bro lies for no reason but to give him the benefit of the doubt, Joy is a released song, just without MJ's lead vocal obviously. So there really is no unused stuff like he said (unless there's unreleased Teddy stuff we dk about)
But Joy is a song he worked on with Michael and his version is unreleased right? So either he's forgetting the song altogether or Michael has no lead vocals besides the chorus
If there is any unused stuff, those would be all the instrumental grooves Teddy submitted to Michael that weren’t developed into songs… He did say he played 15-20 grooves to Michael, and some were bound not to be used anyway.
What if he's mixing it up with Michael's Joy (Best of Joy)? Just a thought.
Very uncertain. The 1991 list had both "Best Of Joy" and "Joy," plus Jean-Marie was working on several Teddy originals at Larrabee so it'd be hard for him to confuse the Teddy-produced Joy with a song that was likely worked on exclusively at Record One (and the period where Teddy worked there came before Jean-Marie joined him when his team moved to Larrabee North).
The latter assumption wouldn't really line up with what Tammy Lucas said about "Joy," where she describes Michael singing the verses in a very MJ-esque way.