Michael Jackson’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (follow up post)

Michael Jackson’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (follow up post)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVM-l2Oku4

I hate drive-thru hate comments. And this one really pissed me off…

Anonymous said...

Can we not get the name of the person who claimed this, or the interview?
I hate half-baked research.

He left this comment in my popular MJ/Sonic 3 post. I guess he didn’t even bother watching the video, because Qjimbo did a great job researching this stuff (Which has led to other people finding other similarities)

Our Anon commenter even ignored the direct similarities to Michael Jackson’s - Stranger In Moscow song and the End Titles. If the songs are so similar, wouldn’t MJ have sued Sega? (Or the other way around)

And the fact MJ’s relationship with Sega never really ended even after the Sonic 3 incident, because he showed up in two Sega games as himself in character model and voice this further proves my point. You can check out his very extended appearance in Space Channel 5 here.

(My guess is they paid him for the music, and they both agreed to remove his name from the game.)

Qjimbo even has a site up that has full coverage into the whole thing. He even compares tracks side by side.

You can check out the remix to Stranger in Moscow with the Sonic Music.

Further reading…

Taken from IMDB, (Sonic the Hedgehog 3)

((SEGA originally hired Michael Jackson as composer for the music on the game but later dropped him over the infamous allegations of child molestation. However, his song writing team carried on without him and it is believed that part of what he had written remained in the game. There are notable similarities between the music recorded for Sonic 3 and music from Jackson's previous recorded tracks from the Dangerous album, and a track from the later released HIStory album (which was composed during the time of the game). For example, there is a sample in the Carnival Night Zone's music that is taken directly from the song "JAM" and the credits theme parallels Michael Jackson's later song, "Stranger in Moscow".))

Let’s not forget some of MJ’s people worked on Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles, such as…

Doug Grigsby III: He would later work on MJ’s Ghost video

Bobby Brooks

Brad Buxer: This guy has worked with Jackson all through the 90s.

Why would MJ’s sound team be credited in Sonic 3 if there weren’t music left over from MJ’s composing?

Now, how is that for research, dumb ass?