Michael Jackson's new single 'This is it' is rubbish
When Michael Jackson died back in June I felt like I’d lost one of my biggest childhood heroes. Hell I even dragged my arse out of bed at 2am on a weeknight to go and see the memorial played live from Federation Square.
While the sense of loss might have dulled, quietly I’ve been anticipating the concert rehearsal footage and possibility of new Michael Jackson music being released ala Tupac ‘I don’t know what dead is’ Shakur.
With the release today of a new single, ‘This is it’ – I’m starting to think Jackson not doing the London concerts might actually have been a good thing.
THEY ARE ANGRY!
You’ve got catchy hooks, a variety of music styles and then layered in is the vocal aggressiveness of Michael Jackson. It’s just perfect and even now, some fifteen plus years after they were released I can still happily listen to the albums from start to finish.
They don’t feel dated, I still love them and ever since Jackson died I’ve even resisted the urge to skip the cringeworthy Have You Seen My Childhood and Gone to Soon.
‘This is it’ sadly seems to repeat the wishy washy ballad’esque sound of everything Jackson released after History. ‘Blood on the Dance Floor’ was just a nothing album and ‘Invincible’, what the hell was that about?
This is it is bland, directionless and is a failed attempt to capture the ‘hey yo I’m singing about girls!’ vibe Jackson had going on in the 80′s. It’s massively unpolished and lyrical quality is childish (seriously, rhyming stand with grand and feel with real in the first thirty seconds – what are we in kindergarten?)
Lyrics wise I don’t really have any idea what he’s singing about. The audience, a girl, what?
At first I thought it was the audience but then he sings about ‘being a lover’ and ‘love being in my head’. And of course his brothers just had to add in 60′s backing vocals which just compounds the mushiness of the track.
It sounds like a song you’d hear at the end of a highschool dance or something.
Seriously guys, if this is truly it… as in this is calibre of any new music we’re going to hear, please don’t ruin Jackson’s legacy. No more new songs thanks!
Update: What the hell, it seems this totally ‘brand new song’ was written by Michael Jackson and Paul Anka in THE EIGHTIES. It was performed by some woman called Safire (or Sa-Fire) in the 90s on the album ‘Taste the Bass’.
I’m not quite sure how Sony are trying to pass this off as a new song written for the concert considering it was already released nearly 20 twenty years ago. Sadly it seems whatever musical integrity Jackson had in his passing is going to be abandoned in the pursuit of maximising profit.
Bravo Sony, bravo.
October 13th, 2009 at 8:50 am James(Quote)
they have dragged out a song that wasn’t even up to ‘B-side’ grade and therefore was too bad to ever be produced when it was recordered, but now that he is dead they see it as a way of making money from people who will just buy it because it’s MJ music, regardless of the fact that it’s crap.
The title needs to be changed to either
this is’NT it
or
this is SHit
I doubt he would’ve really wanted this to be his last song.
October 13th, 2009 at 9:17 am ozsoapbox(Quote)
Oh definitely, it’s just filler crap. You’d put it in the middle of an album and hope nobody noticed.
I don’t think anyone would want this to be their last song, there’s a reason Jackson didn’t release it 20 years ago himself.
October 13th, 2009 at 11:57 pm motiv8dan(Quote)
I love Mj but this song is ordinary, dont worry there are going to be heaps more and hopefully good ones too, when he made the dangerous album he recorded over 60 songs, pick the best 14 and made a great album. Apparantly he did it on all his albums, so expect a 2pac like flood, i just pray some of them are good and just didnt cut it for certain albums….