Sony has obviously removed from streaming platforms three pieces of MichaelMichael Jackson’s first posthumous album, suspected by many fans to be fakes.
It’s a victory for the fans. Three songs featured on Michael, Michael Jackson’s posthumous album, which fans have suspected since its release of not being performed by the King of Pop, has disappeared from streaming platforms in recent hours. Sony Music, which owns the catalog of the singer who died in 2009, had to withdraw the titles in question, Breaking News, Keep Your Head Up et Monsterthis Wednesday, starting with Apple Music and Deezer.
This sudden withdrawal is undoubtedly the result of a long lawsuit led on the initiative of a particularly motivated fan, Vera Serova, against Sony and the producers of the record. Michael. Last episode of this river trial, the parties met again before the Supreme Court of California on May 24. For its part, Sony did not respond to our requests.
In 2014, Vera Serova launched a “class action”, a class action, against the producer of Michael Jackson. His complaint was directed against Eddie Cascio, friend of Michael Jackson (and producer with his brothers of the latest album of the star), and his production company, against James Porte, author of the songs, and against Sony Music Entertainment, the record company of the King of Pop. Since then, from appeal to appeal on both sides, the trial has continued.
an imitator
During this procedure, Vera Serova not only produced the expertise of a sound specialist who questioned the authenticity of the tracks, but she also accused Sony Music and the Cascio brothers of having suppressed all evidence of this scam. An imitator, a certain Jason Malachi, would be the real interpreter of the three songs.
On August 23, 2018, Sony acknowledged before the California Court of Appeal that these songs were not performed by Michael Jackson, before returning to this statement the next day.
“No one has admitted that Michael Jackson didn’t sing on the songs,” Sony attorney Zia Modabber said, speaking on behalf of Sony Music and the Jackson Estate.
Michael, released in 2010, six months after Michael Jackson’s death, is the King of Pop’s first posthumous album. As soon as the album was released, the three songs Breaking News, Keep Your Head Up et Monster have been disputed by fans and family of Michael Jackson. “It doesn’t look like him,” La Toya Jackson told TMZ. Two nephews of Michael Jackson, TJ and Taryll Jackson also expressed doubts about the tracks.
Two other posthumous albums were released in 2012, Bad 25reissue of the album Bad on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, then Xscape, in 2014.