Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (Special Edition) - Bad (1987) - Moonwalker - HQ Sound

Song: Smooth Criminal.


Sung & Performed by: Michael Jackson.


Song written by: Michael Jackson.


Produced by: Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones.


Album: "Bad" August 31, 1987.


Song Record Label: Epic Records.


"Moonwalker" (Short Scene Film)


Starring: Michael Jackson, Joe Pesci, Sean Lennon, Kellie Parker and Brandon Quintin Adams.


Story & Screenplay written by: Michael Jackson and David Newman.


Directed by: Jerry Kramer, Will Vinton "Speed Demon", Jim Blashfield "Leave Me Alone" and Colin Chilvers "Smooth Criminal".


Produced by: Frank DiLeo, Michael Jackson, Dennis E. Jones, Jerry Kramer and Will Vinton.


Music composed by: Michael Jackson and Bruce Broughton.


Distributed by: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.


Release dates: December 26, 1988 (UK) January 10, 1989 (USA)


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



Synopsis!
"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. 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. In 2003, the song appeared on the Number Ones greatest hits album.

About Music Video!
In "Smooth Criminal" Michael Jackson plays a benevolent gangster who uses his powers, as a crime fighter, to protect the children of an unnamed big city. The film opens with a framing sequence depicting a scene linked to events occurring near the end of the film, in which a group of children (including Sean Lennon) watch as Jackson exits a music store and is attacked by mobsters with machine guns. The film then backtracks to a scene of Jackson playing in a field with those children and their dog. The dog runs away, but in their search for it, Jackson and the children uncover the lair of Mr. Big, Frankie Lideo (Joe Pesci, as a parody of Michael Jackson's manager, Frank DiLeo), a drug-dealing mobster with an army of henchmen, who wants to get the entire populace of Earth addicted to drugs, starting with children.

Mr. Big discovers Jackson and the children, but they escape; Jackson tells the children to meet him at Club 30's, which turns out to be a haunted nightclub abandoned since the 1930s. The story goes back to the mobsters attack on Jackson, and here it is revealed that Jackson is actually a magical gangster, who draws his power from shooting stars. As one passes by the club, Jackson transforms into a sportscar and mows down several of Mr. Big's henchmen. The story picks up on the children at Club 30's, and at first the children are afraid, but when Jackson appears the scary atmosphere of the club transforms and the children find themselves back in the 1930s. The club is now filled with zoot suiters and swing dancers. Jackson participates in a dance-off with the other club members, which serves as the music video for "Smooth Criminal".

The version of the song used in this segment is different from the album version — there are several new lyrics and the song is much longer, including symphonic material by Bruce Broughton. The extra lyrics are to make the story of the song clearer. The more commonly seen music video form is a four-minute collage of clips from the movie.

At the climax of the song, Mr. Big lays siege to the club and kidnaps one of the children, Katie. Jackson follows them back to Big's lair and ends up surrounded by his henchmen. Mr. Big appears and mentally tortures Jackson by threatening to inject Katie with highly addictive narcotics. While Katie manages to wriggle free, Mr. Big decides he's had enough and orders his men to kill Katie before finishing off Jackson, but not before a shooting star flies by. Jackson transforms into a giant robot and kills all of Mr. Big's soldiers. After Jackson turns into a giant spaceship, Mr. Big gets into a large hillside mounted energy cannon, firing on the spaceship into a nearby ravine. The children are his next target, but the spaceship returns from the ravine just in time to fire a beam in the cannon with Mr. Big inside.

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• Smooth-Criminal
• Bad
• 1987
• Epic-Records
• Quincy-Jones
• Moonwalker
• 1988
• Short-Scene-Film
• Michael-Jackson
• Joe-Pesci
• Sean-Lennon
• Kellie-Parker
• Brandon-Quintin-Adams
• David-Newman
• Jerry-Kramer
• Will-Vinton
• Jim-Blashfield
• Colin-Chilvers
• Speed-Demon
• Leave-Me-Alone
• Come-Together
• R&B
• Dance-Pop
• Urban
• Pop-Rock
• Pop

[SLUArgentino10]

wrong man..no one will ever top his performance x)

[Mchild7]

Michaels best peice to me ....RIP

[Jany1954]

What can one say, except , awesome!

[tyronesinclair]

AMAZING TIMES A MILLION

[mikeletaddyrap]

e il numero uno

[TheBudhistpunk]

I was 5.Mint, get in, fuck you bitches, its my dick.

[0mileris0]

why this song not number 1 best beat in the world

[MusicMadGuy2010]

In terms of performance Michael Jackson was to dancing what Irishman Luke Kelly was to singing ballads, Absolutely Amazing...

I agree, this performance by MJ will remain untouchable:)

Patrick (Ireland)

[Regizap]

7:21 - 7:35 FUCKING EPIC

[martyyot]

dejal 12345 the song was called stayin alive