Michael Jackson - About A Place With No Name - Commentary by LA Reid

As strange as it may be, once we got into the project There was something missing for me And I felt that I had a conversation with, uh One of my favorite A&R men that worked on this record, Shalik Berry Uh, and I had a conversation with Shalik that I feel like we're hitting a wall And Shalik said, "It's time to open it up then" He said, "You need to think about some different people" And so next on my list was Stargate, you know? So, I went to them and I played them the work The body of work that we created up to that point And I played them a couple of songs that weren't done And I asked them to get involved, and they respectfully declined Because they didn't think that there was anything that I played them That they thought they could bring to life Or that particularly spoke to them So I left the studio a little disappointed I got back to my office and listened to A Place With No Name, the original demo And I asked my assistant, get this to the studio to Stargate right away Like right now, like, don't send it Get in a taxi, hand-deliver it and ask them to listen to it right now, please So, I called ahead and said I'm sending somebody to the studio But when she gets there, you have to listen right now And they listen, and they called me back and said "This is it This is the one, this one speaks to us" So that's how Stargate got involved