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Uploaded by on Mar 20, 2010

well i found this a while back but i can't seem to figure this out.

so I made this video.

I think it's a demo of some kind for Michael Jackson's smooth criminal

kind weird.

found after he died in July.

enjoy?

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oh and some song info

"Smooth Criminal" is the seventh single from Michael Jackson's Bad album (1987). The song contains a fast-paced beat intertwined with Jackson's lyrics about a woman named Annie, who has been attacked in her apartment by a "smooth" assailant. It was released as a single on October 24, 1988 and peaked at 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] It was re-released on April 10, 2006 as a part of the Visionary: The Video Singles box-set. The re-released Visionary single charted at #19 in the UK. The piece is one of Jackson's signature songs, and has appeared on numerous greatest hits albums, including Number Ones, The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection, King of Pop and This Is It.

The song also serves as the theme song to Jackson's 1988 film Moonwalker.

"Smooth Criminal" was a song that almost didn't make it into the Bad album. With the final decision to include the song, Jackson originally decided to make the music video a western-styled short film. However, he later decided to change the style into a 1930s nightclub style.[2]

An early version of the song was written by Jackson and John Barnes in 1985 and the original demo was recorded in 1986. The original title was "Al Capone". This version didn't make the album and was re-worked and re-written as "Smooth Criminal".

The style of both the clip and the clothes as well as mannerisms Jackson portrayed were reused in the arcade, the Sega Master System, the Sega Mega Drive and the Sega Game Gear adaptations of Moonwalker. The song itself serves as the soundtrack for the Club 30s stage, the nightclub from the movie, in all versions of the game.

The song was performed live during the second leg of Jackson's 1987--88 Bad World Tour. The performance featured a dance routine modeled after the scene from Moonwalker. By the time the 1992 Dangerous World Tour came around, this performance became a regular on Jackson tours, including his HIStory Tour. A spoken word and synth recording preceded the song on the second leg of the Bad tour and on the subsequent Dangerous World Tour, the same recording having been used as an intro for the song "This Place Hotel" on the first leg of the Bad tour. By the time of the Dangerous tour, Jackson had devised a way to perform the patented anti-gravity lean

, which was featured in the Moonwalker video, on stage. Much like the robot move from "Dancing Machine" and the Moonwalk from "Billie Jean", this showcased Jackson's talent for creating unique moves to enhance stage performances. This performance can be seen on the Bucharest Dangerous Tour performance which is included as a DVD in The Ultimate Collection boxed set.

Part of the song was also briefly used in the middle of the live version of the song "Dangerous" since Jackson's performance at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards. In the HIStory Tour, he used a small snippet of this song during his performance of "Dangerous". Jackson was also going to use it again in his "Dangerous" performance in This Is It, along with the full track, had the concert series not been canceled due to his sudden death.

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  • yess it replays over and over again so you can hear it......other than that i dont know anything eles

  • I meant that i found it and posted it up...I never made this video..

  • mmmmm...................i know its al capone to smooth criminal.

    Chicago 1945 i'm not sure what it is

  • I saw the video in the behind scenes it's just the little kid who played mj in badder in moonwalker they were rehearsing smooth criminal and Michael was watching him dance.

  • @jamle13

    youur riugh it is!

  • it might be.

    i hope the full version leaks

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  • this is the audio of the making of smooth criminal video or moonwalker! haha

    at the part that the little boy is dancing like him and if you see the making of , the cameraman shows michael laughing watching him dance

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  • I think this must be either Al capone or Chicago 1945 because the music is different from smooth criminal

  • Sounds like this has been taken from the concert clip

  • Is there a longer version

  • WHAT IS IT?? Its sounds like this when you speed up Smooth Criminal.

  • @minecabus13 can u show me the url of that vid:

  • pfffff smooth criminal en acceleré!!!apres il veut faire croire que c'est un demo de MJ mdr remballe!

  • So???

  • @MrRichie450 i don't understand nothing

  • esto es de un ensallo de moonwalker :l

  • From making of Moonwalker. also, the answer other debates. I went Chicago 1945, Al Capone then Smooth Criminal. But Chicago 1945, at least the title, possibly the music to with new lyrics, was recoded during the Invincible sessions. Not much is known about either version though =(

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