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News July 12, 2017

Michael Jackson’s music will soundtrack an animated Halloween special

Michael Jackson’s music will soundtrack an animated Halloween special

Finally, somebody is using Michael Jackson’s music and legacy in a way deserving of his talent.

I can see how this might come across as deeply sarcastic, but since MJ was murdered (legal note: tragically passed away) the output from his catalogue has been exploitative at best, and “featuring Akon” at its worst.

This isn’t a new thing (go ask Jeff Buckley) but Jackson’s catalogue has been treated quite shabbily; a noted perfectionist whose vaults have been pried open, with anything half-finished hastily flung into the world.

Here’s a song released under his name that had many, including long-time producers and family members, doubting whether he even sang the vocals on it.

Now, CBS are airing a one-hour animated special ‘Michael Jackson’s Halloween’, which will feature his music as its soundtrack.

It features voice-over talent made up of CBS’s television stable, such as Raymond’s shit brother from that shit Raymond show, and Xena, Warrior Princess, and a story about two “millennials” who have an adventure inside a haunted hotel named ‘This Place Hotel’ on Halloween. There is a dance finale which features an animated MJ busting moves.

It sounds a lot like Moonwalker, or Ghosts, or any of Jackson’s forays into PG-level scary children’s cinema, and represents the first posthumous project that Jackson himself may have been passionate about.

At the very least, it doesn’t try to pass a rubber glove off as a sequined one.

This article originally appeared on The Industry Observer, which is now part of The Music Network.

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