Three Michael Jackson songs have been removed from Spotify and other streaming services. Fans have doubted for years whether Jackson can really be heard on the songs. The tracks appeared on the posthumous album Michael from 2010.
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There has long been a consensus among many Michael Jackson fans: on the tracks ‘Breaking news’, ‘Keep your head up’ and ‘Monster’, with rapper 50 Cent, you can not hear their idol, but a session musician can be heard. Record company Sony Music is clearly tired of the rumors and has therefore removed the songs from the streaming services. That can be concluded from a reaction on a fan forum of a certain Chuck who speaks on behalf of the heirs of Michael Jackson.
“I would like to point out that the removal of these three songs has nothing to do with their authenticity,” he writes† “The Heirs and Sony Music believe that the perpetual discussion of the songs distracts the fan community and other listeners from what they really need to focus their attention on: Michael’s legendary music catalog.” Entertainment Weekly cites a similar response from the music label and the heirs. This is the easiest and best way to put this issue behind us once and for all.
The songs were all part of the album Michael, which appeared in 2010 after the death of the ‘king of pop’. Officially, it sounds like the songs were recorded in 2007, but super fan Vera Serova filed a lawsuit in 2014 over fraud. She is convinced that the voice recordings come from session musician Jason Malachi. Malachi had once admitted this in a social media post, which disappeared just as quickly. He said he was hacked. Serova then lost the lawsuit. The judge ruled that the record company and the heirs are not liable for the authenticity of the voice recordings.
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