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What were the planned singles to Invincible?

From Carole's book "There're playing our song":

One night I got a call from John McClain , Michael's manager at the time , saying they were missing one last key song and they wanted me to write it with Babyface . We only had three days to write and record it . And we did it . Our " three - day ” song , " You Are My Life , " joined the same album with songs that had taken more than two years to complete ( not to mention all of the unused partly finished tracks and vocals scattered in recording studios across the country )
 
Fuzball said:
From Carole's book "There're playing our song":

One night I got a call from John McClain , Michael's manager at the time , saying they were missing one last key song and they wanted me to write it with Babyface . We only had three days to write and record it . And we did it . Our " three - day ” song , " You Are My Life , " joined the same album with songs that had taken more than two years to complete ( not to mention all of the unused partly finished tracks and vocals scattered in recording studios across the country )
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I don’t get it - so Michael himself asked Babyface to write him a song in just three days? Does that mean Michael can be considered a co-writer? After all, it was his request to write something on short notice. Maybe the idea for the song to be about his kids was his too?
 
Spaceship said:
They were credited as being one of the co-writers, so it's safe to say that, yes, they did, in fact, co-write the song.
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Do we know what Michael’s actual contribution to this song was?

For example, with YAML, we know for a fact he got a co-writing credit just because he changed the title from You Are My World to You Are My Life at the last minute. I wonder if it was a similar story with Shout?

Maybe the song was originally called Shoot, and Michael just swapped an O for a U and then they decided to make him a co-writer
 
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