Feeling a little “Bad” this morning haha… not really but I am actually starting off the morning with the King of Pop. “Bad” was released as the second single on Michael Jackson’s seventh studio album of the same name in 1987. The song peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, became the second number one from the album and his overall seventh number one entry on the chart. The music video was directed by Martin Scorsese and featured one of the first appearances of yet-undiscovered Wesley Snipes. The music videos choreographer stated that the plot and video of the background was strongly influenced by the Cool scene in West Side Story, and “in a 1988 interview with Ebony and Jet magazines (which was released on Hulu shortly after his death), Jackson said that he had gotten the idea for the song from a true story that he had read about in Time or Newsweek magazine. Jackson stated that the story said that a student that went to school in upstate New York, who was from the ghetto, had tried to make something of his life and planned to leave all of his friends behind when he returned from Thanksgiving break. He added that the students friends jealousy resulted in them killing the student; Jackson stated that the students death was not included in the music video.” Have a great Monday!!
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:34:22 +0000