And then again, there are also other posts by him e.g. about Michaelās creative process, which donāt correlate with what every other one of his collaborators has said in the past. This reddit user is the first person to claim Michael would go to the keyboard and try out chord progressions for hours by himself.
Then, there is this statement:
āI was around for the sessions of Scream, Money, Stranger in Moscow, D.S. and Tabloid Junkie. Stranger in Moscow made me sad, because throughout the entire time we were all working, there was a very pained look on his face each time after recording. It seemed very personal, I remember at one point after recording the chorus, he walked out instead of working on the lower harmonies. ā
Yet later on he said:
āWe started recording in October 1994, at least that's when I was there.ā
But Stranger In Moscow was actually the first song to be recorded for the album, and it was recorded in February 1994. By October, the song was pretty much done. So, how could he have been present for that session?
And another weird statement:
[About Little Susie]: āMichael had difficulty composing what exactly it was he wanted with the song. It sounded too much like Basszouille haha. That's why it kept getting shoved off the schedule until eventually being dropped.ā
We now know that there is a demo of Little Susie from 1978 which is instrumentally and lyrically identical to the version on HIStory. How could Ryan Arnoldās have witnessed Michael having difficulty with the composition?
He was also asked about how many takes Michael would do for a song, and he said āsometimes one, sometimes manyā. I doubt Michael every did only one take for a song, unless it was a scratch vocal for a demo.
These are all of the weirder comments he has made, which make me believe he isnāt who he claims he is. Perhaps Iām wrong, who knows?