It was in a 1998 fanzine that Michael Jackson explained, for the first and only time in his career, how he felt when people remixed his songs. With uncharacteristic candor, relaxed in the knowledge his interviewer was a fan, Jackson told Black and White magazine exactly what he thought of the practice.
“The least I can say is that I don’t like them,” he admitted. “I don’t like it that they come in and change my songs completely. But Sony says that the kids love remixes.”
Sixteen years later, approaching the fifth anniversary of Jackson’s death, Sony is releasing its third posthumous collection of remixed Michael Jackson songs. Dubbed Xscape and seemingly released as a promotional tool for a new Sony Xperia mobile phone, it contains eight unfinished demo recordings of varying age and quality, ‘contemporized’ by modern producers.
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