Re: "A Truth Untold" GOES LIVE. Book publication aimed to present the truth about the Cascio songs.
This is not information we already know otherwise there would be no point.
A number of fans claimed in this thread we know everything already. This is, in my opinion, blatantly incorrect.
I'm going to elaborate on this a little bit
First of all if people are wrong, the ATU team can tell us who they have already interviewed and so on. After all they are asking for financial support, they can get more support if they say "exclusive interviews with x,y,z" and so on. Why aren't they advertising this unknown information & sources for their advantage? They seem to love secrecy but at the time when they are asking for money they could provide more details to get more supporters. Currently they are trying to convince people that this is a worthwhile effort to financially support them. The more information, the more transparency would result in more support. If people have questions, concerns and if they are mistaken, why aren't they answering such questions and correcting such misconceptions?
Secondly given the posts on Damien's blog, I have no question in my mind that he probably already asked those collaborators of Michael what they think about Cascio songs. I know for a fact that one or more Jacksons have been talking to them (or their friend circle). Given Cory Rooney and Michael Prince as the top tier reward and so on there's no question in my mind that there have been some interviews have been done. But also from asking "travel costs" it's also apparent that some interviews aren't done either.
However that still isn't enough to convince me that the promise of the book can be delivered in regards to the "whole story". And I'll explain
- Some people have already talked about this stuff. For example Cory Rooney have commented about this a lot. I'm sure (given that he's a top tier reward) there will be a more detailed interview with him but to me that doesn't account for a substantial new information. I / We know the basis of his position, more details are fine but it won't be ground breaking.
- While interviews with Michael's collaborators - that had nothing to do with Cascio songs / Michael album- is nice, they don't bring much to the table in regards to this issue. We again know that some of MJ's collaborators think it's Michael on the songs and some don't. So such interviews is just the opinions of those people and only "he said - he said" situation.
- Whole story promise requires to be able to interview everyone involved. Given that in the interview video they say they'll invite Cascio's, Estate, Sony etc to discuss the topic with them, they actually do not have the whole story, they only have a hope. So it might turn into a promise they can't keep. As Alec said the side that did not talk or address this issue at all is the Cascio's, Estate and Sony. Without getting them to commit to take part in this I don't know how anyone can make claims of "whole story".
Also interestingly I'm not sure if the expectations versus planned the book is the same things. For example I'm sure that the donators are expecting the book to do the big reveal of "these songs are fake" however Damien's comments about being objective, definitely reaching out to Cascio's etc - if goes as planned- the book could be in the tone "this is what one side say, this is what the other side say" without making any definitive claims so I'm not sure if such book would satisfy the donators. Secondly again in the interview it was mentioned that reading the "whole story" would bring closure which given our great album debate and what people's expectations are (such as wanting the songs to be removed from discography) I don't see how a book will bring any closure. I'm confused as at least to me what the authors aim to do versus what people expect seems to be two different things - unless of course the authors are heavily biased and just using words as objectivity and such to just hid their bias.
He just pledged to the kickstarter campaign, and a meeting with him is the top tier reward...
which is a nice reward but truly a rich fan reward. at least $900 donation
plus the travel costs, not everyone can afford it. I tend to think more in number but smaller in money amount rewards might have worked better. but the donations seems to be going strong so the rewards might not matter after all.
edited to add : While I personally prefer to be more neutral in this regard when compared to Gaz, honestly I wouldn't be baffled about any non support from MJJC. After all the founders of ATU haven't necessarily been kind to MJJC and it's staff members in the past.
