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i can't believe you said thanks to that arklove. if only i took a flying leap off a cliff... :lol:
I added this one before I'm not sure if you saw it
edited to add: and both in academia and in legal testimony credentials is everything.
so again technically a guy with a PhD and with 20 years expertise in voice recognition would be > than a 20 year MJ fan.
this is the reality.
If this was to see a courtroom and they got Swedien on stand and when he explained his credentials, history etc he would be more knowledgeable than any fan.
and you should know this in your personal life. why are you doing the job you are doing and people trusting your evaluations? because you have the expertise and credentials.
It's pure reality.
sure experts can be wrong. it's just they are "less likely" to be wrong.
and don't you find it hilarious that one hand we see "experts can be wrong" argument and on the other hand we see "I can't be wrong" argument? and that's why a fan would never be taken seriously.
In academia and legal testimony yes. But here, we are outside academia and legal testimony on the one hand. On the other, not all PhD holders agree on the very same subject.
12) Before any of us even heard Breaking News, there were clearly concerns behind the scenes, with the Estate contacting Thad Nauden etc? Why are our concerns not taken equally as seriously?
in regards to knowledge : experts > fans. similarly look to the recent tribute concert events. before they announced it jermaine and randy was against it. after they announced it fans are against it. but yet it is still going on. you / we can make noise to get our opinions heard but in the end of the day someone else is going to make the decisions and it might not be always the decisions that we like. it's called life.
How about a PhD with 20 years experience in voice recognition who happens to be also a MJ fan and disagrees with the PhD with 20 years experience in voice recognition and who is not a MJ fan.
You make it sound as if all experts and PhD claim that those songs are MJ's. This is simply not the case as many haven't voiced their opinion at all. That's also what I call a hasty categorization of people, making it sound as if experts were on the one side and fans on the other.
In your book.
Right. In other words those fans who tend to agree with Swedien are more knowledgable than those who dare
to disagree with him.
Are you saying that PhD holders with whom you are working know better your voice than your friends, family and all those who would listen to you on a daily basis among whom there are also PhD holders?
Now I'd be curious to see the result of a competition between Bruce Swedien and a hard core fan. I'd bet on the hard core fan that he/she knows more MJ's songs than Bruce has ever heard of. If Bruce knows about 100 MJ's songs (without knowing the lyrics by heart) and a hard core fan about the double, triple or even more (knowing all the lyrics and a single Michael's mimic in each song) + those of soundalikes, even in court Bruce's credibility would suffer.
Indeed, but in my job there are also people with same credentials who tend to disagree and use other methods and rely on other theories. That's why I also believe that Bruce, despite all his credentials, is wrong in this particular case.
Again you are categorizing by saying "experts" and "fans". You make it sound as if all experts agree and as if among fans there are no experts. Indirectly you are implying that the non-doubters are more credible than the doubters only because they follow some experts' opinions.
bumper i think you are forgetting the original question. it was something like "why they didn't listen to fans" and I answered to that as they had experts. and my point was if this thing ever got serious such as lawsuit they had the expert advantage.
again not the point. the question was "why didn't they listen to fans". and again my point was merely that they had "experts" over the fans. I wasn't debating who is a better expert.
I definitively wasn't saying "all" experts. but we know that estate/sony has 2 experts that say it's Michael. I haven't seen any expert saying the opposite. so as of now this is an expert - non expert positions.
in academia and in law.
I never said such a thing. again please go back to the original set of questions. it questioned estate / sony to go along with these songs despite the fan reaction. my whole point was once again they had something bigger than fans such as musicians that worked with michael with decades , experts etc.
I didn't say that either. I said that a person that holds PhD in music, forensic audiology etc would be a better determinant of voice identification than a fan. I didn't say that it applies to all phd's. For example I will (hopefully) have a phd in business that makes me an expert in business and not in voice identification.
this is wishful thinking imo.
and your position shows that we have two conflicting positions and not an undisputed fact.
again didn't do any of that. I merely pointed out that the reason the "fans" opinions wouldn't be listened is that they thought that they had a group of people - musicians and experts- and that their opinion would have more weight when the push comes to shove. that was all my point.
and i didn't get an answer : bruce can be wrong, experts can be wrong but people on this thread that says "it's 100% malachi" can't be wrong? is that it?
I think that's the problem. There weren't as many complete tracks lying around as they thought. Certainly not hundreds as has been speculated. When they were presented with the opportunity to acquire 12 complete contemporary MJ songs from a seemingly reliable source, they jumped at the chance.
^^i'd say doing something over and over and over and over again, on a daily basis, to the point of obsession makes you an expert in that thing.
Like i was watching one of those crazy TLC shows the other day where this kid was obsessed with collecting vacuum cleaners (what up with that?!) Anyway, he has like a house full of vacuum cleaners, he searches for them on the weekend, people call him up and ask him about vacuum cleaners, he researches them, he can identify the brand by sound without looking at them . . . he's an odd kid. But yes, i'd consider him an expert on vacuum cleaners.
we're as obsessed about mj as he is about vacuums, right? I mean, we listen to him all the time, we have collections of his stuff, his pictures, his music, we've researched him, i'm willing to bet any one of you could identify which mj song you were listening to from the first 3 notes. if we're not experts, no one is. The very nature of our love (and obsession) MAKES us experts. we keep it up and we never stop. yes, we're more qualified to judge than anyone else, i'd say. including bruce swedien.
do i know the sound u mean? ya, it goes something like; 'drrr nerrrrr" HAHAHAi was saying it in my head reading your story![]()
well clearly whoever MADE these tracks was no expert in mj's voice, anyway. any one of us coulda told them that "mama got you in a zig zag" is--umm--wrong.
ah, no, here's our boy
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ya, sure he mixed billie jean 90 times. did he mix billie jean 90 times . . . yesterday? no. did i listen to billie jean 90 times yesterday? well, no, but pretty close.
my point is a super fan listens to mj much more frequently and RECENTLY.
if you want to stick with the "kid obsessed with vacuum cleaners" analogy (i know III do) the guy that manufactured the Kirby Legend (which is apparently some holy grail of vacuums) in 1989 is probably not as much of an expert on vacuums as this 16 year old kid. cuz the manufacturer is not surrounded by it every day, he doesn't keep up with it, he doesn't study OTHER vacuums and take them apart.
also, this isn't one fan against a single "expert". our collective knowledge seems a lot more credible to me than a single expert. we're like a legion of experts. and bruce swedien didn't go through and pick apart the tracks like Pentum. He didn't go through and compare the tracks to known samples from JM. he didn't hear portions of the song and KNOW they came from existing michael jackson songs and analyze them with waveforms. He didn't talk about this for 10 months. You know who did? we did. the fans did.
as to your other point: ummmmmmmmmmmmmm. hmm. i can't acknowledge that i might be wrong, because i'm absolutely not wrong. I'm as sure about this as anybody can be about anything--but i guess that all comes down to what 'sure' even means. even the theory of relativity is just a theory, after all. but scientists have every reason to believe it, in our current understanding of how the world works.
who do you classify as an "expert" in the fan community? and expert in what? credentials?
for example you multiple times said that you wouldn't deny bruce swedien's work with michael but also he's not an expert in voice identification. so wouldn't that also apply to the fans? no one is going to deny that there are fans that listened to mj for decades but what makes them "voice identification experts"?
okay
doing it over and over make an expert - so you say that if a fan listens to mj everyday for 20 years then they are an expert.
then why wouldn't swedien be an expert then? didn't he mix billie jean 90 times?
see my point? to me some things seem such double standard.
for example
if you are going to argue that swedien is a sound engineer and not a forensic audiologist / not trained in voice identification- fine. then you should also accept that all the fans that are not forensic audiologists / not trained in voice identification - wouldn't be experts either.
if you are going to argue that regardless of expertise swedien (or anyone else) could be wrong, you really should also acknowledge that you can be wrong as well.
because if you go "he ain't an expert but we all are" and "he can be wrong but we can't" then you only sound highly biased.