Sony Music Did Not Admit Michael Jackson Songs Are Fake, Contrary to Reports

In 2014, a Michael Jackson fan named Vera Serova introduced a class action lawsuit towards Sony Music, the Jackson property, and Eddie Cascio, a Jackson pal and collaborator who labored with the singer earlier than his dying. Serova alleged that Cascio and his manufacturing firm Angelikson Productions created pretend songs, recorded by a Michael Jackson impersonator, after which offered these songs to Sony to be positioned on the posthumous 2010 album Michael. Three songs have been introduced into query: “Breaking News,” “Keep Your Head Up” and “Monster,” that includes 50 Cent. According to courtroom information, Sony tried to quell the swimsuit by submitting an anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) movement, however that was shot down by the presiding choose.

Yesterday and at the moment, stories emerged saying that Sony not too long ago admitted in courtroom that the aforementioned songs have been recorded by an impersonator. Now, the music conglomerate is denying these stories, in a press release given to Variety. “No one has conceded that Michael Jackson did not sing on the songs,” it reads. “ The hearing Tuesday was about whether the First Amendment protects Sony Music and the Estate and there has been no ruling on the issue of whose voice is on the recordings.”

As Variety stories, “According to sources close to the situation, individuals who attended Tuesday’s court hearing seized upon a statement by an attorney for Jackson’s estate in which he said something to the effect of ‘even if the vocals weren’t Jackson’s’ as proof that they were indeed faked. The sources insist that the attorney was speculating.”

Pitchfork has reached out to Michael Jackson’s property for additional remark.