Michael Jackson - Bad (Live Bad Tour 1987)



"Bad" was a 1987 hit recording by American singer Michael Jackson. The song which has become one of his signature songs, was the second of five Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit singles from the album Bad, and was his seventh number-one single overall. The song was originally intended as a duet with longtime rival Prince. Quincy Jones, in an interview included in the Special Edition of "Bad", said that Prince told Jackson and him that he hadn't wanted to participate because "it would be a hit without (him)". In his 1988 autobiography Moonwalk, Jackson wrote: "'Bad' is a song about the street. It's about this kid from a bad neighbourhood who gets to go away to a private school. He comes back to the old neighbourhood when he's on a break from school and the kids from the neighbourhood start giving him trouble. He sings, 'I'm bad, you're bad, who's bad, who's the best?' He's saying when you're strong and good, then you're bad." In 2006, the single, as well as the video, was re-released as part of the Visionary - The Video Singles package.
The music video for "Bad" was the most expensive up to that point, surpassing the $800,000 budget of "Thriller" with an impressive production of $2,200,000. It was the most expensive video of all time until March 1995, when Madonna's Bedtime Story was premiered The full music video for "Bad" is an 18-minute short film written by novelist and screenwriter Richard Price, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Michael Jackson. Jackson portrays a boy named Daryl who has just completed a successful term at an expensive private school. He returns to the city by subway, arriving in a derelict neighborhood. Daryl arrives to find his house empty (his mother is played by Roberta Flack, albeit in voiceover), but is greeted by his old friends, led by Mini Max (an emerging Wesley Snipes) and spends an evening with them. At first relations are friendly, if slightly awkward, but the situation deteriorates once the rest of the gang realise how much Daryl has changed, and in particular how uncomfortable he has become with their tendencies towards petty crime. In an attempt to show his friends he is still bad Daryl takes the gang to a subway station where he attempts to mug an elderly man but bottles out at the last minute. Mini Max berates Daryl and tells him that he's no longer 'bad'.
Bad is an album by pop singer Michael Jackson, released on August 25, 1987 by Epic/CBS Records. Released nearly five years after the phenomenon of Thriller, the album remains Jackson's second biggest-selling album globally to date with sales reaching 32 million copies. Jackson began recording demos for the anticipated follow-up to Thriller a few months after his last performance with The Jacksons after their successful Victory Tour. Recording took place between January 5 and July 9, 1987[3] (except for "Another Part of Me" which was recorded for Captain Eo in 1986). Jackson wrote a reported sixty songs for the new album and recorded thirty, wanting to use them all on a three-disc set. Instead his longtime producer Quincy Jones cut it down to ten tracks and a bonus song making it a single LP. The CD release contained the bonus track, "Leave Me Alone". Jackson wrote nine of the eleven tracks himself while Terry Britten (writer of Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With It") and Graham Lyle wrote "Just Good Friends" and Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard wrote "Man In The Mirror". Contributions from other musicians included Stevie Wonder who sung a duet with Jackson on "Just Good Friends" while Steve Stevens contributed a guitar solo for "Dirty Diana". Originally "Bad" was to have supposedly been a duet between Jackson and Prince. However, the duet was canceled after, Jones said, Prince told him that the song "would be a hit without (him) on it". Prince later jokingly assumed the reason for not performing the song was he was concerned about the "your butt is mine" lyric. Another song, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", was also supposed to feature a famous female singer. Reportedly Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston all turned down the duet offer. R&B singer-songwriter Siedah Garrett was picked by Quincy Jones to sing with him on the song. Song choices were difficult: according to Jones, he and Jackson discussed two songs Jackson penned that Jones had wanted from the album. While Jackson had written a song called "Streetwalker", Jones loved Jackson's "Another Part of Me". Jones said the decision to include "Another Part of Me" was due to Jackson's manager Frank DiLeo "shaking his ass" to "Another Part of Me". Jones also said Jackson chastised DiLeo, who he nicknamed "Rubba", for it.

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