MJJuniorSinceMW
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And what do you think will happen next?Okay, I was asked last year and confirmed to a forum member that Thriller 40 was a thing but the MJE had little interest in contrast to Sony. Commercially it's just nothing important to them due to their shift in business priorities. As you can see they didn't bother to do anything with most of the versions they had. Basically they took some of MJ's own leftovers and the Quincy material that they have cleared long ago:
"Sunset Driver" (2004), "Got The Hots" (2008) and "Carousel" (2001, 2008) are reused. Then there's "Can't Get Outta The Rain" again which simply remains the odd Thriller era B-Side that actually has nothing to do with the album (you all know its true origins from THE WIZ' "You Can't Win") that they used on the Riingle and the T25 Limited Single Collection box set last time.
The other Quincy produced material has been cleared decades ago. Sony wanted to release several Thriller outtakes back in 1999-2001 like "Starlight", "She's Trouble", "Hot Street" and "Nite Line". We all know this. It was the same in 2007 but MJ went with will.i.am / Akon / Kanye West instead.
The "new" MJ demos here were considered or actually have reworks done for either the MICHAEL or XSCAPE album.
Oh boy, did they botcher "Carousel" on this. It was beautifully mastered in 2008 but this sounds muffled, somehow they didn't use the master they already have.
Number one in regards to the sony/estate situation? They have a contract, the estate privately shifting their business priorities shouldn't free them from fulfilling the contract. Do you know how many "projects" / album releases are to be expected?
Number two in regards to album of new material as mentioned by Teddy Riley in connection to a hard disc drive of Michael Prince with over 40 different MJ vocals/melodies/songs? Is this coming/in the works?
And is it possible that you could explain the situation regarding "the vault"?
Is there even one vault? Or does the estate have a vault? Has sony music it's own vault of MJ material?