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Old Jan 25, 2016, 03:14 PM
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Todd Van Luling interviewed Buxer, Jones, and Grigsby for The Huffington Post: http://testkitchen.huffingtonpost.co...ljacksonsonic/

I don't think this really blows the lid off anything, but we now have more people on the record, this time with a high profile joint, directly saying that MJ's music is in the game.

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"Oh, it did get in the game," Grigsby insisted. "The stuff we handed in, the stuff we did, made it. To. The game."

It's hard to know for sure why Jackson's name wasn't on Sonic 3. My guess is that both the molestation charges and Jackson's concerns about sound quality played a role in his removal from the credits. But Ben Mallison and his fellow Blues are right, Buxer says: The melody that appears in the end credits is also in Jackson's single "Stranger in Moscow." The Sonic song was written before Buxer and Jackson "ever started working on" the single, Buxer said. The chorus hook for "Hard Times," a song Buxer had written for a band he was in, was also repurposed for Sonic, he said. "These cues are all over the Internet," he said. "People have accurately matched the songs to the cues."
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