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Timbaland and Justin Timberlake both worked on Xscape. Picture: Isaac Brekken Source:APMichael was comprised a bunch of unreleased songs Jackson had been working on in the decade before his 2009 death — not his most inspired period.When your musical partners are Akon, will.i.am and a whole bunch of unknowns it was never going to be another Thriller.To his credit, will.i.am has said he will never release the songs he and Jackson wrote, as he knows the singer wouldn’t want the world to hear the unfinished work.Which is where Xscape comes in. Would Jackson want this album released, considering he never got around to releasing these demo songs when he was alive? It’s the musical equivalent of using a body double to finish a movie where the star tragically died before the film was completed, but the $how Must Go On.Producers including Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins and Stargate have been given access to a pool of Jackson’s unreleased songs, from 1983 to 1999.Those were Jackson’s most creative years. So what have they done? Removed the original music, kept Jackson’s vocals and melodies and wrote new songs around them.(A deluxe version will feature Jackson’s untouched originals, as he left them — unfinished).Some Jackson fans are already horrified vintage songs that the perfectionist deliberately didn’t release to the world are now in the public arena. But Sony paid a reported $200 million to release a string of ‘new’ posthumous Jackson albums and there’s only so many reissues and remixes you can milk out of what the world already owns.However while Sony have branded it “contemporising” you could argue writing brand new music for Jackson’s private demos is musical necrophilia.Jackson’s family have been quiet so far about this project, but naturally they stand to profit from it and they’ve never been slow to cash in on his name and talent, even when he was alive.So to Xscape.
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The first thing that’s clear is that, just in case you had some fantasy about Jackson’s unreleased material, there is no equivalent of Billie Jean left in the MJ vaults. The posthumous Michael Jackson album Xscape. Source:SuppliedYou’ve already heard the best thing this album has to offer, the single Love Never Felt So Good.Jackson wrote the song with Paul Anka in 1983. One other song from those sessions, I Never Heard, was retitled This Is It for the posthumous compilation of the same name in 2009.Love Never Felt So Good was released by Johnny Mathis in 1984, and a demo version exists on You Tube that reinforces it was obviously never finished, hence it was unreleased.The Xscape version wisely recreates Disco Michael, trying to sound like he did circa Off the Wall. There are lots of lush strings and his voice soars on the chorus.The deluxe edition of the album features a version turned into a beyond-the-grave duet with Justin Timberlake that’s a good business decision but a so-so creative one.Chicago is another highlight on Xscape.It wasn’t written by Jackson. That’s no problem — some of his best songs including Rock With You and Thriller came from Rod Temperton.Cory Rooney, who wrote Chicago, is best known for writing Destiny’s Child and Jennifer Lopez hits, so you’d suggest it’s a recent recording.Timbaland uses squelchy beats and 80s synths but it’s the lyrics and vocals that dominate here.Jackson swings from singing quietly in the verses, like he would in a ballad, to Billie Jean style anger in the chorus.
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Michael Jackson performs during a concert at Vincennes, near Paris in 1992. 1991’s Do You Know Where Your Children Are probably never made Dangerous for two reasons — it doesn’t sound like a No. 1 hit and Jackson’s lyrics are fairly graphic.It’s the story of a 12-year-old girl who ends up being pimped out on Sunset Boulevard.“She wrote that she is tired of stepdaddy using her, saying that he’ll buy her things, while sexually abusing her,” Jackson sings.Blue Gangsta is for diehards only, and the backing vocalists are doing their best to sound like Michael. This one could have happily stayed lost.The title track was started by Rodney Jerkins and is now finished by him, complete with his ‘Darkchild’ vocal watermark.It sounds like Jackson’s ’90s swingbeat Dangerous period; the vocals change so much you presume they were pieced together from various takes. When a song didn’t make the patchy Invincible album you know it’s not particularly special.There are two ways of looking at the 34 minute running time. Perhaps they’re keeping with the theme of the ’80s when, pre CDs, albums were less than ten tracks and uniformly short.Or, more likely, they’re rationing the salvageable material for even more albums.
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There were 24 songs from the vaults picked for this album, and only eight made the cut. You do the maths.The album is designed to showcase how good Jackson’s voice is, but this is not news. There is a reason songs aren’t released; not everything superstars write is designed to be heard.After all the hype at the end of the eight songs there’s something that should never follow hearing Michael Jackson — a sense of being seriously underwhelmed. To paraphrase what should have been his final tour you’re left thinking — is that it?Xscape (Sony)3 out of 5Released on Tuesday.