Post by The Curmudgeon on Aug 4, 2010 10:01:43 GMT 2
Sigh, well, that's didn't take long. One year after his death, it still seems there's enough meat on the Jackson corpse for the vultures to feed on. Because guess what? There's an album of "new" Michael Jackson music coming out in time for Christmas.
Funny how, when he was alive, MJ didn't release any new music in close to ten YEARS, but he's been dead for a little over ten months and we're getting a new record? How does that work?
So what do we think of all this? I think we can assume the songs won't be anything to write home about, or surely he would have released them already? We're not talking about someone like Prince here, who has vaults of unreleased songs building up because he knocks out fifteen track albums at ease. MJ didn't have a back catalogue like that, and the worryingly poor recent material he DID let surface (his last album Invincible, for example) shows the labels weren't exactly spoiled with tracks to choose from, so what exactly is getting released?
But does it matter? MJ is dead, and his reputation as one of the greatest entertainers of all time is set in stone. Will a cash-in release of old songs taint him in anyway? Or will younger fans buy into this release thinking they're getting some of this much talked about MJ magic, only to find a (possibly) sub-standard set of songs?
Discuss.
Funny how, when he was alive, MJ didn't release any new music in close to ten YEARS, but he's been dead for a little over ten months and we're getting a new record? How does that work?
So what do we think of all this? I think we can assume the songs won't be anything to write home about, or surely he would have released them already? We're not talking about someone like Prince here, who has vaults of unreleased songs building up because he knocks out fifteen track albums at ease. MJ didn't have a back catalogue like that, and the worryingly poor recent material he DID let surface (his last album Invincible, for example) shows the labels weren't exactly spoiled with tracks to choose from, so what exactly is getting released?
But does it matter? MJ is dead, and his reputation as one of the greatest entertainers of all time is set in stone. Will a cash-in release of old songs taint him in anyway? Or will younger fans buy into this release thinking they're getting some of this much talked about MJ magic, only to find a (possibly) sub-standard set of songs?
Discuss.
