Call out Quincy Jones

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By Miss1990
And since Greg Phillinganes and royalties came up, let's address.

Greg's work on "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" came as a session musician. Session musicians are not due royalties. An artist can choose to give royalties to a session musician, but they are not required.

Session musicians are typically unionized and are only due a flat fee.

For some reason, creatives who breathed in Michael's space seem to think they are owed all these royalties and a lot of them are tripping.

If Greg really didn't get paid, his remedy would be to file a complaint with the union to get his check.

Also, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" was released in 1979. Greg went on to work with Michael on all of his adult solo albums except one (Invincible). He was also Michael's music director for the Bad and Dangerous tours.

Michael and Greg worked together for roughly 20 years. He did project after project with Michael, and he and Quincy both know the nature of these projects are usually a one-time fee. Not royalties.

By OTW_
What I don't get is, Quincy has celebrated his greatest success with Michael and he hardly has anything nice to say about the man. Why? What did MJ do to him that made him so bitter? Is he still pressed that MJ left him or what? Here they ask him about Michael and all he can say is that MJ "stole" music and talk about his plastic surgery?

For someone supposedly trained in classical music Quincy should know better than to call this "stealing". Music history is full of borrowings and inspiration and there is a big difference between that and stealing.
I am sorry but whether MJ took that riff from this song or elsewhere State of Independence is no Billie Jean, so it is hardly "stealing"

Quincy always sounds so incredibly bitter about MJ, trying to play him down so hard. The man gave Q his biggest success ever and he doesn't have a nice word to say about him? They ask him about MJ and all he can come up with is that he is a "thief"? Isn't really there any nice memories that Quincy could share about MJ?
Something about Michael's talent, Michael's personality, something that just doesn't ooze bitterness? Does he ever acknowledge Michael's genius? You know songs like Billie Jean, WBSS, Beat It, DSTYGE, WDAN, Smooth Criminal, Dirty Diana etc etc. did not write themselves. MJ wrote those songs. I noticed that Quincy only ever praises songs that weren't written by MJ but by outside songwriters. He loves to go on about Man in the Mirror being MJ's best song ever. That may be his genuine opinion (and I don't deny it is a great song, though I don't think it is greater than Billie Jean or WBSS or WDAN), but at this point I start to suspect he is jealous of Michael's creativity and deliberately plays it down. And he deliberately talks up the songs of outside songwriters as if those made Michael Jackson. I wonder if that's because he brought in several of those outside songwriters, so by playing those songs up can make him feel that HE made Michael Jackson? Is that it?

Because when it comes to Michael's own songs he always plays them down.

And MJ never said a bad word about this guy. Think about that!

Originally posted on Lipstickalley

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