Demo intended and submitted for Rihanna's forthcoming eight album

Produced by Jeremy James (J Jay)
Written by Sevin Wilson and Germaine Jacob

Vocals on this track are delivered by a Rihanna soundalike session singer

Warrior (Demo for Rihanna) 2013

Written by Anthony Whiting / Chad Richardson / Emily Phillips
Produced by Anthony Whiting
Demo not sung by Kylie Minogue

This song was originally pitched to Kylie in December 2011, during the very early sessions for what eventually became her Kiss Me Once album. 
According to one of the writers (Chad Richardson), ´Yo Yo´ was wholly penned with Kylie in mind; the producer of the track, Ant Whiting, asked Chad and Emily Phillips to lay down both lyrics and melody atop the instrumental, to deliver something that could scream Classic Kylie all over (as Parlophone was requesting at the time). 
Once they were finished with it, the demo for ´Yo Yo´ was sent to Minogue’s headquarter and apparently the trio was about to land that fish. However, Kylie’s crew had second thoughts a few weeks later and told Chad the song had a great summery vibe and potential, but sounded a little reminiscent of Kylie’s previous hits, so they decided not to go with it anymore. 
After being ditched by Minogue label, ´Yo Yo´ has been given to and recorded by Japanese popstar Crystal Kay, and the final version is currently available on her album Vivid, released globally in June 2012.

Yo Yo (Original Pitched Demo)

Written by Damon Sharpe / Lucas Secon / Peter Wallevik / Daniel Heløy Davidsen  / Mich Hedin Hansen
Original demo production by Peter Wallevik, Daniel Davidsen and Cutfather
Vocals by Alexandra Segal

For the first time ever (courtesy of Peter Wallevik who allowed me to share it online), here’s the early demo of Get Outta My Way, dating back to a few months before Kylie Minogue got the song on her Aphrodite album and Parlophone hired Stuart Price to executively produce the whole record.

The demo, as you can clearly hear, starts out with a totally different intro and doesn’t feature the piano riff, played by Peter Wallevik, that has always been part of the original stems and got finally used by Stuart Price as a new overture for the song. 
Also, the demo includes a spoken line (´Don’t ever forget what keeps a woman around´) that’s missing on Kylie’s final take and gets repeated in the short middle breakdown, eventually scrapped, preceding the bridge (´No, I ain’t going home ’coz I wanna stay´ and so on).
Despite featuring the same music elements Price finalized Kylie’s cut with, the early demo mixing sounds louder and more synth driven than the album version. 

As many Kylie fans already know, Get Outta My Way (originally penned with no specific female popstar in mind) was being simultaneously shopped around to several record companies and had quite a few contenders at the time (Jive Records expressed particular interest in getting the song for Britney Spears, and so did the likes of Little Boots, Alexandra Burke and Pixie Lott), but Kylie turned out to be the one winning the fight and placing the track on her then upcoming record, mainly due to the outrageously late updates coming from the other labels and their slow timings. 

Vocals on the demo are provided by a session singer named Alexandra Segal and part of them (the captivating vocalizations accompanying the intro/outro, for instance) ended up being kept on Kylie’s take as well. 

A Kylie sung version of this early demo DOES exist and was recorded with Peter, Cutfather and the other writers/producers in February 2010, prior to Stuart Price involvement.

Get Outta My Way (Original Demo)

Written by Madonna Ciccone / Shep Pettibone / Tony Shimkin

Directly ripped from an old cassette containing the infamous Erotica sessions demos (conventionally known as The Rain Tapes), ´You Are The One´ was part of a few yet to be heard tracks Madonna recorded between 1991 and 1992.

The song is produced by Shep Pettibone and Tony Shimkin and totally displays the music direction Madonna was heading into while working on the Erotica album, namely 90’s piano house and drum machines mixed up with scratchy hip hop beats and deep basslines.
The track features organ style keyboards played all over the tune (especially on the chorus and the breakdown), which do sound notably similar to the ones the Basement Boys popularized and used on Crystal Waters’ 1991 hit ´Gipsy Woman´, a trendy club anthem that had already inspired the production of several house cuts, including ´My Family Depends On Me´ released under Strictly Rhythm by an obscure female session singer named Simone in the same year. 
Also, the vocal sample audible throughout the breakdown and toward the end of the song got rehashed on a very early version of Goodbye To Innocence (labelled as Straight Pass).

After 22 years of waiting, a low quality rip of ´You Are The One´ from The Rain Tapes got publicly leaked on July 27, 2014. On December 21, 2015 an upgraded version of the demo, ripped from the same source as a WAV and uploaded above, surfaced over the net.

You Are The One (Erotica Demo) / Upgrade

Zephyr In The Sky (Christine Leach Ray Of Light Early Demo)

The original Steve ’Silk’ Hurley 12’’ Mix with Ozzy Osbourne and Madonna on vocals (instead of Kim Basinger) as featured on the double vinyl and double cassette edition of Now Dance ’92.

Shake Your Head (Steve ’Silk’ Hurley 12’’ Mix)

Leaks ahead of an official release are always despicable and disrespectful to the artist and all the people involved in the creative process of a song/album, and we know that very well. 
Yet, when it’s been years since the release of a track, leakers (or whatever you like to call ’em) can turn out quite useful in unveiling trivia about how this or that song came to be. 
Thanks to this new leak, now we know that the instrumental of Britney’s and Iggy Azalea’s Pretty Girls, produced by The Invisible Men, had originally been pitched to Charli XCX who wrote and recorded a totally different tune over it, called Heart In My Pocket. 
When her version of the track got scrapped, the producers rehashed the beat for UK female group Little Mix, who in turn came up with an early demo of Pretty Girls (for their third album Get Weird), penned with songwriter Maegan Cottone. 
Since the song didn’t make it onto their LP, it ended up being submitted to Britney’s label and the rest is (sad) history.

Charli XCX - Heart In My Pocket (Demo)

Written by Steve Anderson / Lisa Greene / Steve Lee
Produced by Steve Anderson

Originally pitched to Sony/Jive for Britney Spears (back in 2006), but not picked up by her label, this track got a proper release in its original form, sung by Lisa Rachelle Greene and produced by Steve Anderson, on Afterhours 5 Unmixed (a Global Underground dance/house compilation) in 2008

Couture featuring Lisa Rachelle Greene - Afterglow (Steve Anderson Original Mix)

Written and produced by Daniel Sherman and Winston Sela 

Demo pitched to Sony/Jive for Britney Spears, during the early stages of what eventually became the Femme Fatale album.
The song got reportedly discarded due to its content and lyrics, being about topics Spears had already explored on her previous albums (cybersex and autoerotism).

Britney soundalike vocals on this track are delivered by British singer/songwriter Mia J (who previously recorded Excuse My French, When The Cat’s Away and other pitches for Kylie Minogue’s X album)

Daniel Sherman / Winston Sela - Click (Demo)

Written by Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Kurtis Khaleel / Touré Embden
Produced by Mantronix

Back in May 2007, two supposed Kylie demos got leaked all over the Internet: 
they were called ´Excuse My French´ and ´When The Cat’s Away´, but it wasn’t clear whether it was really Kylie singing on both (with the help of a backing vocalist) or a session singer.
Just one year later, the mystery got solved when I happened to know the actual girl who recorded them: she was named Mia Crispin (stage name Mia J), she had cowritten the tracks with London based producer/songwriter Daniel Sherman and they had pitched both demos to EMI/Parlophone purposely for Kylie.
The songs are produced by Mantronix, a duo formed by Kurtis Mantronik and Touré Embden that used to be very popular in the 80’s for mixing hip hop beats up with electro funk music.
On both Excuse My French and When The Cat's Away, Mia’s vocals are pitched and do sound very similar to Kylie’s in order to show what the tracks could’ve sounded like whenever Kylie decided to record them, but unfortunately they got scrapped by her A&R team in 2007, while picking new material up for what eventually became the X album.
 
The 5 tracks Mia J and Daniel Sherman pitched to Kylie’s record company during the early X sessions, are:

´Excuse My French´
(Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Kurtis Khaleel, Touré Embden)

´When The Cat's Away´
(Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Kurtis Khaleel, Touré Embden)

´Butterfly´
(Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Kurtis Khaleel, Touré Embden)

´All That Glitters´ 
(Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Thomas Kent / Ben Macklin)

´Stars And Pearls´
(Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Supernature)

Mia Crispin - When The Cat’s Away (Demo)

Written by Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Kurtis Khaleel / Touré Embden
Produced by Mantronix

Back in May 2007, two supposed Kylie demos got leaked all over the Internet: 
they were called ´Excuse My French´ and ´When The Cat’s Away´, but it wasn’t clear whether it was really Kylie singing on both (with the help of a backing vocalist) or a session singer.
Just one year later, the mystery got solved when I happened to know the actual girl who recorded them: her name is Mia Crispin (stage name Mia J), she had cowritten the tracks with London based producer/songwriter Daniel Sherman and they had pitched both demos to EMI/Parlophone purposely for Kylie.
The songs are produced by Mantronix, a duo formed by Kurtis Mantronik and Touré Embden that used to be very popular in the 80’s for mixing hip hop beats up with electro funk music.
On both Excuse My French and When The Cat's Away, Mia’s vocals are pitched and do sound very similar to Kylie’s in order to show what the tracks could’ve sounded like whenever Kylie decided to record them, but unfortunately they got scrapped by her A&R team in 2007, while picking new material up for what eventually became the X album.
 
The 5 tracks Mia J and Daniel Sherman pitched to Kylie’s record company during the early X sessions, are:

´Excuse My French´
(Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Kurtis Khaleel, Touré Embden)

´When The Cat's Away´
(Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Kurtis Khaleel, Touré Embden)

´Butterfly´
(Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Kurtis Khaleel, Touré Embden)

´All That Glitters´ 
(Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Thomas Kent / Ben Macklin)

´Stars And Pearls´
(Daniel Sherman / Mia Jade Crispin / Supernature)

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