And Finally

La Toya joins the fake Jackson lyrics conspiracy

By | Published on Tuesday 6 March 2012

Michael Jackson

There’s nothing like dredging up an old story, and then giving it a fresh spin in the dryer is there? Following the appearance last week of that old video in which Paris Jackson seemed to claim that some of the vocals on her late father’s posthumous album ‘Michael’ were provided by an impersonator, now La Toya Jackson has entered the arena also claiming not all the singing on that record is by her brother.

Various people speculated that some vocals on ‘Michael’ had been provided by an impersonator when the record was released in 2010, though those officially associated with the album denied all such claims. And, of course, after the Paris Jackson video surfaced last week, she subsequently took to Twitter to distance herself from the comments in it, insisting she was now certain all the vocals on ‘Michael’ had been recorded by her dad.

But La Toya says that Paris wasn’t so certain when the record was first released, and that she also doubts the authenticity of some of the singing on the long player. Speaking on US TV show ‘The Talk’, La Toya said: “I haven’t heard the complete album but I do know [that on] some of the songs that I have heard it is definitely not his voice”.

Recalling a conversation with Paris at the time the record was released, she adds: “During that time I was doing ‘The Apprentice’ and Paris called me and said: ‘Aunt La Toya, I want you to listen to something… You gotta listen to this, this is not daddy’s voice’. She played it for me and I go: ‘Paris, you’re right, it’s not’. And I kept listening, and kept listening, and it was not his voice and she was so concerned about it and she said: ‘We gotta put a stop to this. We must to put a stop to this. And I’m not gonna let them [the album’s label and producers] get away with this'”.

Assuming that conversation did take place, it’s not clear what convinced Paris her initial reaction to ‘Michael’ was wrong.



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