New Music: Michael Jackson - Girl Is Mine will.i.am remix, Akon - Wanna Be Starting Something, Madonna - 4 Minutes to Save the World (ft. Timbaland and JT)
Michael Jackson - Girl is Mine (2008 will.i.am Remix) /Akon - Wanna Be Starting Something
Rather than RIAA threatening to sue consumers for copying their own purchased CDs, the RIAA should sue any producer, label, or artist that attempts to re-records or remix classic songs. It’s cool to have re-mastered version of a classic or if the artist release demo tracks/director’s cut on a special edition, but when an album - such as Thriller - is already perfect, why do we need to remix it? why do we need a 2008 version? I understand the concept of re-introducing the greatest selling album of all time to our generation, but why water down the original classic? I am a full supporter of sampling tracks for hip-hop, but I am against remaking songs (ie - Ne-Yo’s “Sexual Healing”).
As for the songs, the production on “Girl is Mine” is actually hot, but it’s just not fitting…it may be a little too hard for the song’s concept and will.i.am’s contribution sounds like a bad Black Eye Peas song. Akon’s “Wanna Be Starting Something” is snoozer…
Madonna - Four Minutes to Save the World (ft. Timbaland and Justin Timberlake) (Live - Low Quality Version) (listen)
Word is that Timbaland and JT performed this song during the “Jingle Ball” concert in Philly on December 16th as an exclusive “sneak”. As of tonight, this is the best quality version…it’s hard for me to write a review for it with its poor quality, but it sounds kinda hot, in a FutureSex-LoveSounds way…
Madonna’s new album is her “introduction” to the R&B/hip-pop world with rumored production by Timbaland (five tracks), the Neptunes (five tracks), Swizz Beats, and Mika.
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Post your review on these songs. What do you think about artists remaking classic songs? Do you like Akon’s version and will.i.am’s remix? What do you think about Madonna introducing herself to “introducing herself to hip-hop/R&B”?
Michael Jackson looks not-so-happy in this picture and on his face, what happened to his eyes?
These are fantastic, sound totally awesome, buy y the hell have they been posted on the net?!?!!?
could you guys not wait for the releases in jan/feb?!
you guys r terrible!
I’m just surprise at how many hot tracks Timbaland and Timberlake are releasing. Every time they release a song I keep hoping that it is hot but I’m still kind of surprise at how many hot tracks they released in a two year period. I wish every artist I like can be that consistent. I agree with Honorablemedia about the MJ tracks.
what the hell happened to lupe fiasco, thats my most anticapated album of the year, and yet nothing about it…
he looks like a ghost. oh, also, did you guys know Kanye West got himself a fixed gear bike. okay okay, maybe you don’t know anything about the whole fixed gear culture, maybe you do, but lately it’s been blowing up -like skateboarding blew up. anyway, he got one.
http://kriton-music.blogspot.com/2007/12/kanye-west-spotted-in-trackstar-nyc.html
i thought it was interesting…
thundergo - we posted some single and video reviews for lupe, but ill chop up a review for the album.
yea - mj always looks kinda, umm, not human.
stallion - it is refreshing to hear consistency good tracks for the same group of artists. it’s also good that they work with limited people, that way we are not saturated with their sound. also, their sound isnt the same for every artist, but you know they worked on it…like JT doesnt sound like Nelly Furtado, but you know it was Timbaland. and Timbaland solo’s sounds hot, but Duran Duran didn’t copy Shock Value.
Maybe because artist interpretation of standards is a fantastic way to pay homage and has been going on forever, from classical, through jazz standards, to our day?
You hate on Will.I.Am for remixing a song from thriller, then you might as well hate on Wes Montgomery for his rendition of Round Midnight, or Coltrane’s recording of Favorite Things.
vpell - good perspective. i love Coltrane’s rendition of My Favorite Things.
but as you stated that they are artist interpretation of standards, not of unique classics - which Thriller has been for the past 25 years.
“My Favorite Things,” “Feel like Making Love,” “Fever,” etc. are all standards that have been evolved through artist interpretation. But some unique classics - such as Marvin’s “What’s Going On?,” MJ’s “Thriller,” Janet’s “Control,” Stevie’s “Higher Ground,” etc. have a sense of ownership that is attached to the original artist.
then the question is - how does songs become standards? where is the line drawn for each song?
when an artist makes a tribute album/song - then it passes as an exception, because…well…its a tribute. i enjoy seeing live tributes, such as the james brown tribute, during the Grammys (or was that during the BET awards?) because its a tribute, an honor of recognition, and a one time thing…who really wants to hear Lionel Ritchie sing James Brown on record over and over again?
Please, all of these songs sound like old songs he’s (Timbaland) already done. I promise half of JT’s album is Ginuwine’s first album reworked. I’ve heard this Madonna beat somewhere before also.
Michael should have got Timbaland. New fresh sounds he comes up with.
Girl is mine sounds to ‘noisy irritating’ type of music. Michael should find new producers and should not get involve. He still lives in the past and has lost touch with modern music.
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word neyo’s sexual healing was so wrong on all levels.
that Madonna track sounds hot but sounds like a nelly furtado reject. it be interesting to see how this project pans out.
TH how is Madonna introducing herself to rnb/hip hop? u seem to forget ‘hollywood’ or her feature on “Me Against the Music’. this isnt the first time Madonna has flirted with rnb or hip hop. she already has worked with babyface and dallas austin on tracks like ‘Id rather be your lover’, ‘human nature’
speaking of madonna, i would have like to see kylie minogue continue her experimentation with rnb and commit to a full album on her new album ‘X’. its pretty dissapointing the tracks she layers for this. ’slow’, ‘red blooded woman’ were all dope off ‘Body Language’. some say one of the tracks off her new album entitled ‘All I See” sounds a little too much like pre-90’s janet? anyone agree?
What does this say about world-wide established pop/dance artists (in their own right)? do they need to go the rnb route, tagged on a rapper, to crack the US market + push sales to get noticed? Do they need to dumb down and sex up to catch attention?
on the question of standards, the measure of how successful a song is how many people regenerate, cover it or sample. take for examples the beatles and the longevity their music has till today. even gaye covered the beatles ‘yesterday’. where i think covers work and are great is when an artist completely in a different genre covers a song and reinterprets it in a totally different light say for ex. a rock group covering an rnb song or a hip hop song.