Jon Parales had this to say about the nervously anticiaped first post-humous MJ album: “his posthumous career will not be a matter of simply revealing what was in his archives, but also of transforming the material into a current commercial product: finishing songs he started while he was alive, guessing at his intentions and hoping to live up to his inspirations. He danced with zombies in the video for “Thriller”; now he returns, reanimated. “Michael,” frankly, is not a great start.”
I have a funny feeling there isn’t that much stuff in the vaults. Everything I’ve heard, including that godawful Akon song, has felt incomplete, not enogh vocals, not enough anything. It is like MJ is guest starring on his own album.
I guess I’ll know more tomorrow.