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Michael Jackson’s new posthumous and controversial album XSCAPE is in stores today via Epic Records. The album, which is receiving mixed reviews contains 8 never heard before songs in both their original form as well as reworked version by top contemporary producers like Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins and Stargate.
When he died in June 2009, Michael Jackson left behind a trove of unfinished recordings — some were released on the 2010 album Michael , while many more were left behind because they were in rough demo form. Jackson's label went through the material, then asked Timbaland and other top producers to finish the King of Pop's ideas with an album called Xscape A posthumous Michael Jackson album was to be released back in 2010, but things fell through. Xscape , like the album Michael, will feature unreleased vocals from the King of Pop.
It was announced today that on May 13th Epic Records, in conjunction with the Estate of Michael Jackson, will release XSCAPE, an album of new music by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. XSCAPE is executive produced by Epic Records Chairman and CEO L.A. Reid. After mining by the Estate of Jackson’s archives, Reid was granted unlimited access to the treasures spanning four decades of material on which Jackson had completed his vocals. Reid then teamed up top producers to “contemporize” the songs while retaining Jackson’s essence and integrity, creating the best music you’ve never heard.
There’s literally no reason for Xscape to exist unless you believe that American society requires a new Michael Jackson album to be released every three years or so until the end of civilization. That’s a different thing than saying Xscape is inessential or bad. In fact, the second posthumous release from the Jackson estate has some honest-to-God, capital letter M Moments across its 34-minute runtime. It’s just that there aren’t enough of them to justify its existence, nor are the reinterpretations of them — mostly with Timbaland at the helm – sonically intriguing enough to make Xscape something you’re going to remember by next month, or maybe even tomorrow.
What makes the tone-deaf interpretations of Jackson’s source materially all the more confounding is the fact that the album opens with an almost pitch-perfect template of what Jackson in 2014 would and should be. “Love Never Felt So Good” is an almost impossibly great 21st century disco revival jam that changes almost nothing from the Jackson original, opting only to add some killer Studio 54 strings and a neon-lit roller rink percussive backbone. There’s a version tacked onto the deluxe addition that features Justin Timberlake doubling the song’s vocal melody, and it’s everything you hoped a Timberlake/Jackson collaboration would have ever sounded like.
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