"The Way You Make Me Feel" is a song written by American singer Michael Jackson and recorded for his ninth album Bad (1987). Produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones, it was released as the album's third single in 1987 and became another number-one hit from the album on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It was performed a few times on Jackson's tours and was most famously performed live at the 1988 Grammy Awards.
At Michael Jackson's 30th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden (2001), he performed "The Way You Make Me Feel" with Britney Spears.
Debuting at #44 on November 21, 1987, "The Way You Make Me Feel" reached the top in its tenth week, January 23, 1988, for one week. It was the third consecutive #1 single from Jackson's hit album Bad. The single spent 6 weeks in the top 10, 9 weeks in the top 20 and 13 weeks in the top 40.The single's music video showcased Michael Jackson chasing a woman (actress Tatiana Thumbtzen) across the street. She falls for him after he woos her with his dancing. It was the pinnacle of her career. There are two versions of the video - the regular version runs for 6:43 and the full version runs for about nine minutes. On March 27, 2006 "The Way You Make Me Feel" was re-released as part of the Visionary - The Video Singles package. Jackson's sister La Toya Jackson is also featured in the video.
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.
By the time Jackson released this album, sales of its predecessor, Thriller, had already reached forty million, raising expectations for Bad. Bad became the first of Michael's albums to debut at number-one on the Billboard Top 200 where it remained for the next six consecutive weeks. The RIAA certified Bad for having sold eight million copies in the U.S. alone. In the U.K, the album sold 500,000 copies in just five days and is currently certified 13x platinum, for sales of 3.9 million making it Jackson's biggest-selling album in the UK. Globally, it's Jackson's overall second best-selling recording, with 32 million copies sold[.Jackson set another record with this album, becoming the first - and currently, only artist to have five songs to hit number-one from one album. In July 2006, it was announced by the The Official UK Charts Company that Bad was the ninth biggest selling album in British history. It turned out to be the last collaborative effort by Jackson and Jones, as Jackson moved on to write and produce more of his own records, particularly with Teddy Riley, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and Jerkins.
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