Cascio tracks
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Italian-American Eddie Cascio (1982–).
Proper noun
[edit]the Cascio tracks pl (normally plural, singular Cascio track)
- (music) [from 2010] A set of twelve tracks which were allegedly recorded by the American dancer and singer-songwriter Michael Jackson at the home of his friend Eddie Cascio in 2007. Three of them, "Breaking News", "Keep Your Head Up" and "Monster", appeared in the 2010 edition of Michael Jackson's first posthumous album, Michael, to much controversy.
- 2010 November 12, Sean Michaels, “Michael Jackson estate fights back against album track ‘fake’ allegations”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 2023-04-03:
- A lawyer for the estate has issued a four-page essay in support of Breaking News and the rest of the controversial "Cascio tracks" on Jackson's upcoming posthumous album. […] They listened to a capella versions of all of the Cascio tracks under consideration, and "all confirmed" the lead vocal was "definitely Michael".
- 2011 November 1, Joseph Vogel, Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson, Union Square & Co., →ISBN, pages 4—5:
- The 2010 album Michael—reviewed in the appendix of the first edition of Man in the Music—was particularly challenging because of the controversy surrounding the so-called Cascio tracks—songs submitted by Eddie Cascio and James Porte shortly after Jackson’s death (three of which appeared on the album).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Cascio tracks.