Michael Jackson - Bad (Special Edition) - Bad (1987) - HQ Sound

Song: Bad.


Sung & Performed by: Michael Jackson.


Song written by: Michael Jackson.


Produced by: Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones.


Album: "Bad" August 31, 1987.


Music video directed by: Martin Scorsese.


Music video choreographed by: Jeffrey Daniel.


Song Record Label: Epic Records.


Niceties by: http://www.youtube.com/IAmOnlyLove



Synopsis!
"Bad" was a 1987 hit recording by American singer Michael Jackson. The song was the second of five Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit singles from the album Bad, (the first a time a recording artist achieved this feat) and was his seventh number-one single overall.

The song was originally intended as a duet with longtime rival Prince, which one can infer with the song's lyrics. Quincy Jones, in an interview included in the special edition of Bad, said that Prince told Jackson and him that he had not wanted to participate because "it would be a hit without (him)". In a 1996 interview with German TV, Prince also humorously said that the reason he didn't want to participate was the first line "Your butt is mine", and that he said to Jackson; "I ain't saying that to you... and you sure ain't saying that to me!"

In his 1988 autobiography Moonwalk, Jackson wrote: 'Bad' is a song about the street. It's about this kid from a bad neighborhood who gets to go away to a private school. He comes back to the old neighborhood when he's on a break from school and the kids from the neighborhood 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 a 1988 interview to Ebony and Jet magazines released on "Hulu" shortly after his death, Jackson said he got the idea from a true story. "This kid who went to school upstate [New York], in the country, whatever, who is from the ghetto and he tried to make something of his life and he would leave all his friends behind and when he came back, on spring break or whatever, thanks giving break, his friends became so envious, jealous of him they killed him. But in the film [Bad's music video] I don't die of course. So it was a true story that was...we had taken from Time or Newsweek magazine, and he's a black kid like me and...it's a sad story."

About Music Video!
The full music video for "Bad" is an 18-minute short film written by novelist and screenwriter Richard Price and based on the case of Edmund Perry. The video was directed by Martin Scorsese and stars 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 realize 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 (The Hoyt Schermerhorn Station in Brooklyn) 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.

After more abuse from Mini Max, the video jumps from black and white to color and Daryl, now dressed head to foot in leather and joined by a crowd of dancing punks, sings "Bad" (it is at this point that the edited video generally begins when played on television). His insistence that Max is headed for a fall are nearly Daryl's undoing, but eventually his friend accepts that "that's the way it goes down", and, after a final handshake, heads off leaving Daryl. The scene shifts back to black and white as Daryl, alone and back in his tracksuit, watching them leave. The video has many references to the 1961 film West Side Story, especially the "Cool" sequence. Not only does it show a street gang dancing in an urban setting, but there are also some parts of the choreography that were influenced by it. The choreographer Jeffrey Daniel confirmed the influence, although they intended to do a more contemporary version of it.

The full 18-minute-long version of the video for "Bad" first appeared on the DVD version of Video Greatest Hits - HIStory in 2001.

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[EnvysGirl01]

I love MJ's outfit in this video. I would so wear that. <3

[AriLuv101]

Judging by 5:42 to 7:04, I'm going to guess that he did wrong...

[MrBoSSmanBiGGs]

Rosejackson5875...my best guess is that he was gunna fight them one on three and instead told em he's bad n gunna kick yo ass if they try n fight. As to why those guys were behind him they were maybe an I.E. representation of just how bad he is but n reality he and the other three guys were the only four there...that's why when the camera turned back to him he was alone and in different cloths. A visual representation of ones Game Face. Well that's my best guess anyway.

[JRock005]

MJ vs Blade. 

[rosejackson5678]

can someone please tell me what the ending bit is supposed to mean you know where the camera turns around to michael and he taking his hood off. plz?????

[3rkka]

love when he stamps at the ending, and "you know, you know it, you doing wrong" who's bad? I AM!

[loncha12]

Omfg he is so hot!!! N i like dis vid :)

[davidsonsk79]

Black ass Wesley Snipes - Dave Chappelle

[THRILLERGURL84]

@TheTedGawd yeaahh

[TheTedGawd]

1:24 "So whats up?" Is that Wesley Snipes?

[Mr4jayme9]

elvia? thast how he be...ram-us?

[tranlivko]

YES!!!