When it first appeared, there was some doubt that this 2007 "collaboration" — circulated in a rough but near-identical version after Michael Jackson's death — really happened. (Members of Jackson's family are among the skeptics.) Musically, the controversy is much ado about little. "Hold My Hand," the lead single from the forthcoming posthumous Michael LP, is a modestly anthemic ­ballad about sticking by loved ones in hard times, with a melody faintly echoing Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry." It certainly sounds like Jackson's voice, ­although the Auto-Tune-y veneer makes it hard to be certain. Akon, meanwhile, brings a pleasant Senegalese-reggae bounce to his duet parts. A decent song? Sure. An important addition to MJ's legacy? Hardly.

“Karma Chameleon”

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."