[I'm repeating here a post I sent on the Maximum Jackson website]
While I personally don't know whether the Cascio tracks are real or not, I was thinking the other day that so far, we've only looked at the controversy from one perspective, which is : "let's listen to the tracks and judge whether they sound like MJ".
But let's look at the whole thing from another angle: Would carrying out such a hoax even be possible? What would it entail? It seems to me that the following would have had to happen for the Cascio tracks to be fake :
1- The whole Cascio family, as well as James Porte and presumable HIS family, would have to agree to go ahead with their scheme, and promise never to say a word about it.
2- The perpetrators would have to contact Jason Malachi -- a man they presumably had never talked to -- and get him as well as his loved ones to go along with the hoax, and promise never to reveal it.
3- In order for the scheme to be profitable to all involved, the perpetrators -- Eddie Cascio, Porte and Malachi -- would then have to agree on a legally binding payment or financial agreement regarding sharing of royalties. Lawyers would have to be brought in for it to have any value.
4- Then, the vocals would have to be recorded, which entails that either Malachi went to New Jersey to records his vocals, or that he did them elsewhere.
Regarding this previous point, we have heard 4 Cascio tracks so far. Two are conventional, free-flowing ballads with apparently unprocessed vocals, while the other two are up-tempo, heavily processed vocals with seem to be made up of a collage of parts. A sub-question is : why do the 4 songs seem to reveal different stages of completion? Were the perpetrators so clever that they purposedly recorded "complete" songs like "All I Need", and other "incomplete" ones like "Monster" so they could create the illusion that some of them were made up on the spot with MJ?
5- Finally, the perpetrators would have to have the guts to go to Sony, to the Estate, and finally to an audience of millions on the Oprah Show, and lie through their teeth.
And they would have to do ALL OF THE ABOVE knowing full well that if their hoax was ever revealed for what it is, they would face certain litigation from one of the most powerful companies in the world, almost certain financial ruin, and utter personal humiliation.
So, here is the final question : would such a hoax even be possible?