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[magic]

What do you think? Is it what you expected from the snippet that appeared few days ago?

Now this sounds little bit different. Yes, I love the song but...

I've been chatting with Micha little bit. She has an opinion that Michael wasn't planing any This Is It songs. If the song was written in the beginning of 90s for another artist then Michael probably recorded demo. And this one also sounds like demo. And it doesn't sound like Michael recorded it this year. According his voice and the way of talking, more noticable in the beginning of the song. So Micha has a view that Sony and AEH just want to cash in... it sounds like that.

But I still enjoy the song

[soap]

It seems the link is not working anymore.
Go to http://michaeljackson.com to listen to the full song.

[Phantom]

I love it

I also think it sounds more like demo

I can't say from which period though

and I don't care so much when it was recorded, it's brand new for me

[mina]

This is really a great song and I'm thrilled that we finally have never heard before material in our hands (or should I say ears).

Still it sounds very possible that this is a 90's demo (some people even claim it was recorded during the 80's) and the fact that the same song was recorded in the 90's with same melody and almost same lyrics (except minor changes) from Safire under the title "I never heard" (music and lyrics by MJ and Paulanca - not sure I got the correct spelling :hm) makes it even more possible that this is an old demo.

Anyway I like it very much, although hearing under those circumstances makes me depressed of how early and tragically MJ was snapped away from this world which still needs him sooooo much.

MANY MANY THANKS to Dimitris for digging up all this info and letting me know.

[magic]

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Still it sounds very possible that this is a 90's demo (some people even claim it was recorded during the 80's) and the fact that the same song was recorded in the 90's with same melody and almost same lyrics (except minor changes) from Safire under the title "I never heard" (music and lyrics by MJ and Paulanca - not sure I got the correct spelling :hm) makes it even more possible that this is an old demo.

I also would say it's recorded in 80s. Michael's voice seems like in Carousel or other songs from those years. His voice has changed at time goes. Back then it was much softer. Then later it became more and more deeper, still the same, but little bit different.

Btw, you can hear the Safire version in other thread

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Anyway I like it very much, although hearing under those circumstances makes me depressed of how early and tragically MJ was snapped away from this world which still needs him sooooo much.

I have the same feelings. I am excited inside. But in some way it doesn't come outside just the facts holds it back. I don't think it will change. It seems like I always will have this feelings if something new comes out.

Although when I am in public ppl doesn't know how I feel. Once I told my friend how bad my day was and that I am mad etc... She said it doesn't seem like that cause I am smiling and look happy lol That's the way I am in public I guess, having some mask.

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and I don't care so much when it was recorded, it's brand new for me

I wouldn't say I care and I wouldn't say I don't care But I am always curious when the song was written and recorded. If there is such information then I want to know it. It doesn't make song to be less better or more better, it's just interesting

[magic]

Fans of the King of Pop might be feeling less than thrilled, however. The song is not new. Rather, it is an undisguised version of I Never Heard, a 1991 track co-written by Jackson and Paul Anka that appears on the album I Wasn’t Born Yesterday from New York dance-pop singer Safire. Her version is more upbeat, but the smooth melody is retained. Lyrics, which concern an unexpected set of romantic feelings (“Falling in love wasn’t my plan”), are mostly identical.

No information was supplied by Sony as to the tune’s origin. “We just found the song,” Rob Stringer, chairman of the Columbia/Epic Label Group, a Sony division, told The New York Times. “It was titled This Is It. It was in a box, and we listened to it.”

Stringer added that Sony originally believed that the piano-and-vocal demo tape was made around the time of Jackson’s 1991 album Dangerous. A full arrangement, including backing vocals, waves of strings and, during one bridge, muted horns, was assembled posthumously.

If the song’s past is murky, its release is certainly marks the start of somethin’ – surely there are more boxes of Jackson material in vaults, and future releases are anticipated. One would imagine that This Is It was chosen as the first single released since Jackson’s death because of its tie-in with a behind-the-scenes documentary about the performer’s planned 50-concert series, that was to begin this summer at London’s O2 Arena. The film arrives in theatres Oct. 28, one day after the release of a double-disc album that packages greatest hits with demos and a spoken-word piece, entitled Planet Earth. The single, which will also appear as an orchestral version on the album, will not be released separately.


http://www.theglobea...article1320751/

[magic]

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No information was supplied by Sony as to the tune’s origin. “We just found the song,” Rob Stringer, chairman of the Columbia/Epic Label Group, a Sony division, told The New York Times. “It was titled This Is It. It was in a box, and we listened to it.”

found in the box?

I wonder when they found it then? Was it recently?

I still think this song is from 80s. If the song was released in 1991 by the other singer, then it was written earlier and the demo also was recorded earlier. So that's why I think it's from 80s

[Sharon007]

I love the vocals on this song I am listening to the full version on the www.michaeljackson.com website now

[HanabiChick]

I like it, in fact if it is a demo, I don't mind. It makes it easier to listen to, because if it was one of the last things Michael recorded, it would be too emotional for me to listen to it.

magic, how are you listening to it, it's in your last.fm sig.

[magic]

I downloaded it with a streaming program I am criminal, I know

[HanabiChick]

Lucky you, I don't have anything like that in my comp. Hopefully I'll be able to get the CD here when it releases and listen to it as much as I want

[magic]

Spoiler

I can send through pm

[HanabiChick]

Yes please

[Dimitris]

i like the song THIS IS IT very much and

i also found 3 version of it all around the internet and youtube

[BabyGirl]

Magic already told every word I wanted to say Except that these years when song probably was recorded are my favorite years of Michaels` voice

[magic]

Dimitris, on 13 October 2009 - 12:34 PM, said:

i also found 3 version of it all around the internet and youtube

3 versions? can you post you tube links pls? I only have heard 1 version. The one from official site.

[Sharon007]

magic, on 12 October 2009 - 08:52 PM, said:

I downloaded it with a streaming program I am criminal, I know

your a smooth criminal (sorry its a pun but i had to say that )

[magic]

Sharon007, on 13 October 2009 - 06:28 PM, said:

your a smooth criminal (sorry its a pun but i had to say that )

yes, baby

[mike]

I think the song is great. It's almost like a tribute to his older music while still living in the moment. It was very emotional for me to listen to the first time. I found another version on iheart radio incase anyone is interested.

http://www.iheartrad...=ali_mjthisisit


LONG LIVE THE KING OF POP.

[magic]

mike, on 15 October 2009 - 02:57 PM, said:

I think the song is great. It's almost like a tribute to his older music while still living in the moment. It was very emotional for me to listen to the first time. I found another version on iheart radio incase anyone is interested.

http://www.iheartrad...=ali_mjthisisit


LONG LIVE THE KING OF POP.

Dmitris said there is other versions but I haven't heard them. The link you posted, it seems like it won't work outside USA