Here's my last two cents on the 'new' MJ album: it's such murky moral territory. I know, as an artist, that I would be MORTIFIED if stuff I discarded was released after my death. There is a reason you write 100 songs for a 12 song record; because you have to make a lot of mistakes an risk failing to discover something great. Yes, there are always bits of songs and ideas you are working on that you hope might turn in to something some day, but I can tell you from my point of view, when shelving those ideas I never think 'ooh I can't wait to release this one day!'. Nope, I think 'I'm glad I didn't put this or that song out'. As an artist, I think that's my right. I believe we should let the person who created the work decide if something is finished or not, I really believe that is a respect we have to show the artist. Since MJ is no longer here to ask, I think it's pretty easy to assume he probably didn't want the world to hear a lot of these 'new' songs. A demo or a rough mix of a previously released song is slightly ambiguous because from an archival and educational point of view, I can see how impressive it is to hear something extremely famous and brilliant in its purest inception. Perhaps if the stance on all these posthumous releases was to present things un-altered and presumably with the artist's previous blessing, I'd be more ok with it. But taking things that were never finished and possibly never intended for public viewing, finishing them and presenting them as 'an album' I think is just.. not right. To me. That's my two cents, I am a recording artists I do accept I have a very specific view but that's mine. I'd probably feel better about most of this stuff if things were kept 'as is' and presented as unfinished gems rather than posing as an album. Again, my unique take but one that I feel passionately about. But it all makes me feel .. icky.

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