yeah sounds fake to me, probably AI if it's from the MIB guy
‘86? God, no wonder there aren’t many MJ books dedicated to how his songs came together. The timelines are insane.
. Sometimes you start a project, you hit a point where you're stuck, you continue with other things and get back to it later... but the fact that there's years between starting and finishing a song is really mind-blowing. After a certain amount of time I, personally, would totally lose interest in working on "old" stuff again.Neither
crazy, isn't it? BoW (intro), Monkey, TDCAU, Earth Song - all of them were started in 1986.
I don't always disagree with Kai, but that's a pretty bold assumption.
Source for the other three? Already asked about BOW on Twitter and got my answer but I don't quite remember Bill talking about the other three having started in 1986.
It's all revealed by Bill in some his numerous tweets. Pretty sure, these haven been posted here in this thread, too.
So funny, because I totally get that
Yeah, true... I would go crazy knowing I have so much unfinished material, tbh I would probably forget about most things, so I could go on with other projectsIt’s interesting for sure!
I think MJ has famously said to the effect that you can’t force good music. It takes time and it’s important to work on whatever feels important at the time. What speaks the strongest to you. Otherwise it’s mechanical work with less real emotion.
There’s good reason his released music is very authentic and representative of his mindset at each time. But also practical reasons things were released had much to do with team work and how far along producers were at any given time. And whether others on his team were really attuned to his vision…
He seemed to work ”by epiphany”, often calling people in the middle of the night with ideas on his ongoing work…
Being the sole overseer of (over the years) many hundreds of songs and ideas is quite a task, especially for OCD folks like MJ.
And the old ideas had to compete with his ongoing creativity which was at times extremely productive.
I think the song lists found after his death show how structured he knew he had to be to get anything done.
Still, when something just took over his system, like Billie Jean which didn’t need too many embellishments, it could be perfected it in quite a short time.
But imagine ideas of that calibre that weren’t released for years… it makes sense that they would continue to speak strongly
Like releasing little suzy in the 90s
Some of the most heartfelt music grows slowly
. Really interesting.
That's literally beat it also if you slow it down lol
You’re right, if you pitch it down by 5, you can hear the beat it intro being overdubbed
Short story: Im a dj as well & caught on to this about 16 years ago. I was just messing around with b.o.w one day & had that part looped & stopped for a min because I was already on cloud 9 for letting it loop so many times & then I slowed it down & was like
..... THATS BEAT IT lol
Son Of Thriller
This Beat It song sounds really important. I don't remember MJ releasing a song with that name. After Off The Wall he dropped this album Starlight Sun and then he retired full time in Ireland. Is this "Beat It" an outtake from that time?Short story: Im a dj as well & caught on to this about 16 years ago. I was just messing around with b.o.w one day & had that part looped & stopped for a min because I was already on cloud 9 for letting it loop so many times & then I slowed it down & was like
Absolutely, I really doubt the final mix was ever meant to sound that bad, like every instrument's been muffled.
Agreed. I don't believe in tampering with Michael's music. That's just wrong.
Are you selling it too?
I'll give you a hint: The DAT was picked up from someone outside Germany. Add one and one together and you'll figure it out.