Michael Jackson Renews Contract With Sony

By Mark Lorenz on March 17th, 2010

• Tweet
• Link to StumbleUpon
• 2 Comments

Yes, that’s right. He’s crawled out of the grave to sign the papers himself in what will now be known as the Thriller contract. Or not.

Michael Jackson just signed an epic deal with Sony that’ll have him eating at five-star restaurants for the rest of his life and staying in the finest of hotels and enjoying the best luxury children’s playground equipment money can buy. Only not, because he’s dead. His estate will, though, as they’ve just signed a 200 million dollar deal to release ten Michael Jackson albums in the next ten years.

Now, I’ve heard a lot of hubbub about Michael Jackson having a secret underground treasure trove of recordings, right next to his bomb shelters filled with Snickers bars and life-sized cardboard cutouts of himself frolicking with Corey Feldman. But I genuinely think that if they’re on the level of “This Is It,” a song that had been recorded twice before and both times done better, they should probably be burned in effigy so the souls of everyone who had spent valuable studio time working on them can finally cross over to the other side.

Seriously, what are they going to release? Demos and Greatest Hits Albums? We can still buy Thriller and Off The Wall. I’ll pass. But kudos to Momma Jackson, who just got the most epic pay-out in history.