{"id":6885,"date":"2021-06-23T08:50:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T08:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2021-06-23T08:50:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T08:50:05","slug":"disney-rejected-michael-jacksons-request-of-contributing-to-notre-dame-ost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=6885&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Disney rejected Michael Jackson\u2019s request of contributing to \u2018Notre Dame\u2019 OST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late music icon Michael Jackson was rejected by Disney after he expressed his desire of contributing to the soundtrack of\u00a0<em>The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Composer Alan Menken said, per\u00a0<em>SlashFilm<\/em>, that he had received a call from the King of Pop\u2019s assistant who said the singer was trying to \u2018change the subject\u2019 after he was alleged of sexual abuse by a 13-year-old boy in 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-15-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6886\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-15-4.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?attachment_id=6886\" class=\"wp-image-6886\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe obviously loves Disney so much. So I mentioned Hunchback. He said he\u2019d love to come to my studio, watch the movie, and talk about it. So we got in touch with Disney Animation. They said, \u2018Meet with him! If he likes it\u2026well, see what he says,\u2019\u201d said Menken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMichael said, \u2018I would like to produce the songs and record some of them.\u2019 Wow. Okay. What do we do now? Michael left,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe got in touch with Disney. It was like somebody dropped a hot poker into a fragile bowl with explosives. \u2018Uh, we\u2019ll get back to you about that,\u2019\u201d he went on to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFinally, predictably, the word came back, \u2018Disney doesn\u2019t want to do this with Michael Jackson.\u2019 I go, \u2018OK, could someone tell him this?\u2019 You can hear a pin drop, no response, and nobody did [tell him],\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt fell to my late manager, Scott Shukat, to tell Michael or Michael\u2019s attorney. In retrospect, it was the right decision. [But] Quasimodo is a character\u2026 if you look at his relationships with his family and his father, I would think there\u2019s a lot of identification there,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News. 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