As the शीर्षक of the video आप पोस्टेड says, this isnt a copy. This song was orginally titled "I Never Heard" and was written द्वारा Michael and Paul Anka then was दिया to the Puerto Rican Freestyle singer Sa-Fire back in 1991.
"This Is It" was just a studio demo that Sony(PHONY) renamed with the first words of the opening lyrics (coincidence much?) and threw it together with some backup vocals द्वारा the Jackson brothers along with some orchestration to make it और grandiose.
Sony did NOT get in touch with Sa-Fire या Paul Anka before renaming and releasing the song nor did they give Anka co-writing credit until after a surprised Anka was told about the song the दिन of its release and confronted them about it.
This demo was taken off the shelf and dusted off just to solely tie in with the movie and to generate और revenue for Sony. Since I believe the *real* unreleased songs were set aside द्वारा Michael to help support his children, Sony cant touch those along with his half of the Sony/ATV संगीत Publishing catalog. The man had real shrewd business sense.
Michael *never* intended to use this song. The decision to include this song in the soundtrack was made after Sony bought the rights to the rehearsal footage.
This is just an ugly and disgusting marketing scheme.
Regardless of this fact, I still प्यार this song. Even tho the original was only a demo with Michael's voice and a piano, आप can hear a lot of potential there.
I plan on downloading not buying the soundtrack because I refuse to line Sony's fat pockets any longer. But I will go see the movie.
