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The Discussion of MJ's Unreleased Tracks

femi said:
He was joking, sometimes his humor could be mistaken for seriousness but that wasn't the real reason why he declined the track. I don't even know why that song specifically was even considered as a duet, it would not work as a duet in my opinion. Far better songs to work with if there was ever a Prince & MJ collab.
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I Just Can't Stop Loving You, for example
 
BlackAnon said:
I wonder if he means the reference demo or if Michael cut the demo before discarding

It's actually - in my opinion - a very pretty song. Babyface was very involved in it (I think he wrote or co-wrote it), and we cut the demo in NY during HIStory in '94. Just my opinion - but I think Michael was looking to push things pretty hard on HIStory, and Waiting was maybe a bit softer than the direction he was going. - Brad Sundberg on "Willing and Waiting"
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I'd love an MJ version of Willing and Waiting, the pre chorus and chorus is really catchy. I can only imagine the potential this song would have had if Mike worked on the lyrics for the verses

It wouldn't have been right for HIStory but it might have worked for an early version of Invincible
 
SmoothCriminal1995 said:
I'd love an MJ version of Willing and Waiting, the pre chorus and chorus is really catchy. I can only imagine the potential this song would have had if Mike worked on the lyrics for the verses

It wouldn't have been right for HIStory but it might have worked for an early version of Invincible
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I quite like that demo tbh, it's basic for sure and needed some work, though. I doubt MJ worked on it, seems it was just presented to him and not used.
 
SmoothMel7 said:
Its first name is "Heal LA" and is instrumental only.
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there's a lyrics sheet with partial lyrics dated to 1993 - he may have recorded vocals in some form


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WalterTacos said:
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One of the mods here took questions from the forum and when they tried to get answers from Brad he didn't exactly answer anything, so there's no point in asking him about unreleased music. If you want answers about unreleased music it'd have to be when there are guests like Matt Forger or Michael Prince at the seminar.
 
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Yeah we all felt that here lol, there were actually a lot of interesting questions that the forum had made. Hopefully Brad will become more open to answering those kinds of questions in the future.
 
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Ask him about his response to Sheila E and Prince hearing Bad at Paisley Park. Sheila said in an interview last week how she and Prince listened to Bad at Paisley and Prince said he wasn't going to do the song but recorded his own version and deleted it immediately after. Brad said the song was never sent to Paisley and that Prince came to Westlake to hear it before rejecting the idea.

1. How far in completion was Bad [the song] when Prince came to Westlake to hear it? How long was Prince there and did he make comments on the song while hearing it in the studio? How did he decline the duet?
 
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