Regarding Harvey... TMZ and Katherine's MJ song

Michael Jackson's Mom: Here's Your MJ Song! The track from TMZ is rather interesting. It brings up more questions than anything else. I'm actually still listening to this very lengthy track while composing this blog and have already recognized the original vocals as coming from the Jacksons' album and title track Destiny. Which is why I have so many questions.

Katherine Jackson swears to the authenticity of the track, of course, but no doubt the vocals are authentic because they're from previously released material. Therefore this track's release would only be worthwhile if the production and mixing of the track were done by Michael, himself. Was the song arranged by Michael? Was this song edited, composed, produced, etc by Michael? If not, well, the questions and my post could end here. If so, this track is interesting from the perspective of it being a creative piece for Michael. It seems to be a mixing springboard. I say creative because the song is a lengthy construct of thoughts and themes, a testing of different elements, synths, and such.

Obviously this track, released from Katherine's vault, was never intended to be a commercial anything, nor a released track. It would only hold value from it being a drafting process, so to speak, for Michael in the studio. A sort of rough draft of purging multiple ideas, testing of chord variations, combinations, vocal mixing, et cetera et cetera, I say because I need not list all the elements of the track to reference them all at once. However, if this is merely a vocal from the title track Destiny from the former Jacksons' album, then all this is for not and there is nothing of interest to comment on. Though there would be plenty to say of cheating those listening and as much to mention regarding Katherine's "decision" to release something so irrelevant.

That being said, it's only a matter of time before Sony snatches the song from TMZ.com and declares it a violation of their rights, its inclusion of vocals from Michael's catalogue: i.e. all things Sony (unfortunately).