In case you’ve been hiding in a cave in Afghanistan from US military forces for the last few months, I’d like to catch you up on the fact that Michael Jackson died a few weeks back. Shortly thereafter his mother was named his Executor of State and since then it’s been a pretty wild ride. There was multiple Jackson funerals, a memorial service, a few burial services, and now the latest hoopla is surrounding the 10/26/09 planned release of “This Is It”, which is Michael Jackson’s biography film. Considering how fast they put the thing together it may say something about what various people in his life saw as the inevitable end, but that may just be me making a wild guess.

With that in mind, a new Jackson song was post-haste put through production and released earlier this morning. You can find the clip on Michael Jackson’s official site (or maybe it’s more his Mom’s site with his name on it… I’m not sure how to label it at this point).  For those of you on the lazy side I’ve embedded the song below for your listen.

It’s reminiscent of Jackson’s earlier works and it’s nice to see he may have planned returning to his soul/R&B styling roots instead of the over produced pop crap that riddled his last decade of work. It’s not the most catchy tune, but as a final piece it brings things full circle back to where he started with the likes of “Off The Wall”. So I’ll give it a thumbs up and a six out of ten rating. Let me know what you think.