‘Michael’ Album Artwork Unwrapped

Published: Thursday 11th Nov 2010 by Sam

While the controversy over Michael Jackson‘s first posthumous album, ‘Michael’, rages on, the full artwork for the set has been unravelled.

Pieced together by renown painter Kadir Nelson, the vast collage features many notable moments in the King of Pop’s storied career, as well as important figures in his life.

See if you can spot them all…

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  1. Spunkypoop November 11, 2010

    WRAP this back he wouldn’t go for this AT ALL!

  2. Spunkypoop November 11, 2010

    WRAPP THIS ARTWORK AND ALBUM back up, he wouldn’t approve of this at all!!! SONY CAN GO TO HELL!!!

  3. Pest November 11, 2010

    Worst cover ever. Not very original.

  4. Spunkypoop November 11, 2010

    AMEN! @ PEST….he dont this before with DANGEROUS! Are they f****** serious!?

  5. Spunkypoop November 11, 2010

    a cheap ass cover version of DANGEROUS!

  6. nicole November 11, 2010

    MJ wouldn’t approve of this no bueno. Worst cover ever

  7. bips November 11, 2010

    i don’t know what to think about that!!!!! damn i luv me some mike but that cover is just bleh!!!!!

  8. KS November 11, 2010

    It’s actually a great collage of Michael Jackson, the artist. I just find fault with people in the media acting like Michael Jackson looks did not change. BET Awards kept using old pics of him in tribute then this has a front cover of him before the 90’s except for how “Dangerous” is used, but that had his face covered. We, hell maybe he didn’t go on to like his thinnest nose and his skin changed from his disorder BUT that doesn’t mean we should ignore the last TWENTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE because he changed. There’s a generation who knew and loved the “whiter” Mike all the same . SMH

  9. AJ November 11, 2010

    Fake album cover fake music. Doing what Micheal would never ever do. Sony think people buy there fake crap. It’s not Micheal ansd his name should not be on fake music. No way would say his name over and over in a song. If he was singing you know it’s Michael Jackson. That media crap why is it there. Not even a good music beat. That’s the beat Teddy R. has. well he needs to hang it up. CAN’T BUY CRAP TAKE MICHAEL’S NAME OFF

  10. 2BAD2BME November 11, 2010

    I DONT THINK THEY HAD PERMISSION TO PUT HIS CHILDREN AND FAMILY IN THIS MESS WHEN ITS NOT EVEN HIM SINGING…JANET SUE THEY ASSES

  11. TTB November 11, 2010

    umm..i only like the cover…the rest is just crap!

  12. Rebecca November 12, 2010

    This cover reminds me of the alternate version of Dangerous. Word to Sony, leave MJ shits and release concert footage or never before seen video/outakes or something. I refuse to buy any new material that they trying to put on us

  13. MJfan November 12, 2010

    This is nothing like the Dangerous album cover, maybe the intenisty of the artwork, but that’s it. I honestly, donot see anything with the artwork. I am a huge diehard mj fan, but I am not nieve to think that michael didn’t produce this artwork years ago, and it was in his vault. and the fans are overeracting. we want to say what mj would or wouldn’t have wanted to be released, how do we know? we didn’t know him as a person, we only know of the image. MJ orchestrated his whole image, from Bubbles, to his association with famous friends. LMP said many things were manipulation. This man wasn’t some run or the mill artist, he was a businessman, don’t you think he signed papers with Sony making deals that even his family knows about. Even Teddy Riley his longtime collaborator and close friend said that it was MJ on the tapes, so what’s t he problem? At the end of the day his children will receive any royalities from this album, that’s all that matters. People are so funny, believing in the peter pan michael jackson. puhleeze everthing that man did was for self-promotion, monetary gain. Aside from his charity. People would be surprised how that man will thought and handled his business. Why get upset over this album, noone on this site will benefit monetary from it. MJ was so moved by his fans, he would throw waterballoons or soaked paper down on them from his balcony. according to Gotham Chopra. I love MJ, but that man was all about making money. His own family probably didn’t know or have any idea how he ran his business. He’s the same person that had the picture of him laying down in the hyperberic chamber and sold it to the tabloids, for image sake. MJ was the best manipulator in show business, and that soft voice, a facade, that man had a deep manly voice. I wrote this to say, stop it with the mj memory is being tarnished, we don’t know that.

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  15. taka November 12, 2010

    IF MJJ would have thrown water balloons to the fans, I would know, since I stayed up in front of the hotel rooms! HE DID NOT, STOP SPREADING RUMORS. MJJ wasn’t stupid, but loved life and his fans, music and charity work!
    Stop tarnishing his memory.
    The cover sucks. MJJ never had baggy eyes, neither giraffe neck nor sloppy arms.

    Stupid cover, tossed to garbage, make another one!

  16. ella November 12, 2010

    Why the f*** are all these people who abandoned his ass when he was going through the worst time of his life on the cover.

    Lisa Marie Presley (what a f****** JOKE!!)
    Brooke Shields??? What?
    Jane Fonda? What?

    F*** $ONY and the artist couldn’t even draw his kids right. How pathetic. The only person who could get MJ’s s*** right was MJ.

    I hate the media. I hate the music industry. I hate greedy m************ who exploit dead people.

    The end.

  17. ella November 12, 2010

    @MJFAN

    LMP said many things were manipulation.

    Lisa Marie is a known liar. ALL MJ fans should know that. She lied her ass off all the way through that pointless interview and in all her past interviews when she discussed MJ. Don’t know why the f*** she continues to speak about him when the marriage ended FOURTEEN years ago.

  18. Chippy November 12, 2010

    Cheap, lame , fake and blehhhhhhhh… Poor Michael, nothing is being done the way he would have wanted it done. This cover looks totally shite. It looks like someone is experimenting with photoshop for the first time and this was the result.

    Furthermore, if you are going to make a cover that is supposed to take us through a journey of his life, then you should ask someone that actually knew Michael to do it.

    Because having this unrelated stuff on there, just makes no sense whatsoever,. 🙁

  19. MichaelsAngel November 13, 2010

    Michael would of threw this out into the garbage if he saw that for a cover..It’s a disgrace to him, it’s just plain fake..
    Try to RIP Michael, your missed by all…xo

  20. juney November 21, 2010

    This cover is awful, the album as far as we know is awful; fans if you want to buy SOMETHING, then buy Invincible. Sony didn’t (wouldn’t) promote it in 2001, let’s send them a message and take it to #1 now. The hell with this posthumous album.

  21. Brandon November 27, 2010

    I think this is incredible work, much a justice to the king and his influence on the world, I just dont like the prince symbol in the piece.

  22. Mike February 8, 2011

    You guys must not know much about Mike saying that he wouldn’t approve of this cover and the album. Do some research first. He had this painted in 2009 before his “death” . It was always going to be used as an album cover. And it’s not just a coincidence that Cirque De Soleil is up there in the right hand corner. Mike never died. This has all been planned for some time now. Just wait. Seriously

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