Michael Jackson confirmed as a composer for Sonic 3 (2016 UPDATE)

[Dafydd]

It's unofficial.

[DCT]

YES, no Mod approval needed. Salluz the Sonic Master says YES.

For realz.

[Sindra]

"It's just an old story, Bella." Anyway, this is awesome. Do we get an official IceCap ReMix project now?

I approve of this message.

[K.B.]

You got a problem with ReCapitated?

It's bad, it's bad, it's really really bad.

[KyleJCrb]

It's bad, it's bad, it's really really bad.

Clearly you don't appreciate art.

[K.B.]

Clearly you don't appreciate art.

Nah man, I was just joking. Far as ocr albums go, ain't a one that can beat it.

Edited April 4, 2012 by K.B.
no change, but if no one got the jokes then I am saddened

[42]

"It's just an old story, Bella." Anyway, this is awesome. Do we get an official IceCap ReMix project now?

It would need to be a parod- I mean homage to Thriller: The Album, imho.

[souldragon777]

Apparently Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Michael Jackson did collab on the soundtrack. I remember there were debates on these forums before so I don;t know if this was ever confirmed but it seems like it is now. MJ wanted to take his name off the project because the sound quality was "so poor".

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/playback/playback-94/1380785

Any thoughts on this?

[The Coop]

http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26559

You were beaten to it by a bit

[Sinewav]

We should do a Sonic 3 remix project composed entirely of Michael Jackson style songs. I have no idea where we would find someone to sing like that... but it might just be funnier to hear everyone trying and failing.

[Poke'G]

I want to know how the hell you got someone as big as Michael Jackson to work on a video game in the first place. Geez.

I never doubted the rumor since the first two Sonic games were composed by members of Dreams Come True, a group popular in Japan at the time. In making the Sonic games bigger and better, it makes sense to seek out a bigger and better name to try and attach to the music. Still cool to have people finally come forward though.

With the news of how he personally dropped his name over the sound quality, and Sega's passion for add-ons, I'm kinda surprised Sega didn't do a Sega CD version ala Eco.

[Sinewav]

I've heard that he was a big fan of video games in the first place too. I would make sense that if it was something he loved, that he'd want to try his hand at applying his own art form to it.

[Salluz]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD thread but: are there any similar Sonic 1/2/3/other songs to MJ's "In the Closet"? Just in case I haven't noticed.

[KyleJCrb]

GameTrailers' Pop-Fiction series finally puts this one to bed: http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episodes/zo88qk/pop-fiction-episode-39--sonic-3--michael-jackson

[Dafydd]

gametrailers' pop-fiction series finally puts this one to bed: http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episodes/zo88qk/pop-fiction-episode-39--sonic-3--michael-jackson

do not want

[Garrett Williamson]

yeah I freaked out when I saw this, honestly.

it looks like it's still not entirely concluded, but I think this is the closest to evidence that we're getting.

this is it right here.

[KyleJCrb]

I think the only way to conclusively cement this would be to get a statement from Michael Jackson himself, but Creator Existence Failure is a hell of a thing.

[Brandon Strader]

Why has nobody remixed Stranger in Moscow I mean Sonic 3 credit music? It was clearly made for the game!

[Garpocalypse]

SEGA already admitted to this in Feb 2009 when Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection hit the shelves. In the tips section for Sonic 3 they said MJ was originally responsible for the soundtrack.

[KyleJCrb]

SEGA already admitted to this in Feb 2009 when Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection hit the shelves. In the tips section for Sonic 3 they said MJ was originally responsible for the soundtrack.

No, that only confirms that he was at one point on the project, not that his music was a part of the final game. The evidence given in the video is probably as close to a confirmation that we will get that at least some of the music in the final version of the game was composed by Jackson.

Edited October 6, 2013 by KyleJCrb

[Subz1987]

OC ReMix got this right by listing him as the composer of Sonic 3. Nice to know that the King of Pop and one of the greatest musicians of all time was also at one point a Video Game music composer.

[The Legendary Zoltan]

I thought it would turn out to be true. Awesome!

[Liontamer]

This great read by Huffington Post's Todd Van Luling finally and truly 100% confirms from 3 of the credited Sonic 3 composers that Michael Jackson made music for Sonic 3 and it made it into the game.

http://testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com/michaeljacksonsonic/

[Nabeel Ansari]

13 minutes ago, Liontamer said:

This great read by Huffington Post's Todd Van Luling finally and truly 100% confirms from 3 of the credited Sonic 3 composers that Michael Jackson made music for Sonic 3 and it made it into the game.

http://testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com/michaeljacksonsonic/

"The credits roll, and Michael Jackson's music plays."

Man, I started tearing up reading that.

[AngelCityOutlaw]

I'm not sure I get it.

I mean, I love the Sonic games and MJ's music as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure why some people seem to be so emotionally invested in this - demanding closure for how many years? For me it's just kinda like "Cool. MJ wrote music for Sonic 3." and that's it but for many it seems like this is a discovery akin to finally solving how the Egyptians built the pyramids.