Bad

And then it became more important than ever, it became paramount to understand who he felt he was because people were relating to his work and relating to him.

Fast forward time from Thriller to the Bad album, through the Bad album and the Backlash.

all the way to Dangerous, a lot has changed contextually.

And obviously if you're reading along, I would definitely tell you to definitely have a good read of Man in the Music, the chapters on Bad and Thriller before you get near Dangerous.

Before you go touch it, before you go start reading about it, the theme of identification, there's an assumption with this chapter that you understand the context of Michael Jackson's work.

Not just the context of Dangerous, which is really highly specific, but the context of Thriller and the context of Bad.

Because it all links together and it all works as a cohesive whole.

Yeah.

We have a third one.

a third breakup song coming up very shortly in the final three and I do hope that is not a reflection of how your life is going very much of the opposite I would very much hope so final three coming up and as you know if you are a regular listener and hopefully if you're not one already you're about to become one you get three in a row no more babbling on from me three songs play and then it's all quiet and you go and find the next thing you want to listen to on your podcasting application so what have we got we have got Michael Jackson a duet from the 1987 Bad album Bad of course anything but fantastic piece of work produced by the wonderful Quincy Jones of course um it's a duet i just can't start i just can't start i just can't stop loving you michael jackson and i'm going to attempt the pronunciation cedar garrett uh then we're going to hear stevie wonder who actually played on the bad album coincidentally i think sometimes this program appears to be more thought through than it is we do link things together but it's more by accident than desired we had some lovely ai doing the programming i'm sure i'm We can link everything together, but we don't.

This is homegrown Steam radio, but we use modern technology to get it out to you.

Stevie Wonder from 1980.

Song number 1448, and we just heard Janet Jackson's badass little self sing All Right at song 1450, where two songs later, Michael Jackson, her big brother, sings his badass little self.

Quite literally in this circumstance, because in the whole song, he's singing about how bad he is.

It's Michael Jackson and his second song, follow-up to the number one hit, I Just Can't Stop Loving You, which was his debut song off the album Bad.

This is the song Bad.

In 1987, October 24th and Halloween, October 31st, he ruled the pop charts at number one.

And it's song number 1448.

Let's go my man It's dance, funk, poppy, and produced quite the cool parody when Weird Al Yankovic sang his song Fat.

Michael Jackson's starting to take hold of the charts in the late 80s, just like he did in the early 80s.

And Another Part Of Me is not quite as well-known as songs like Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'.

Of course, it was a single from Bad.

A lot of people know it.

I'm not saying that, you know...

And when I got to know the lyrics, I thought, "Well, of course it does.

You know, of course it does," because that's exactly what it's about.

Another thing, though, when I first discovered this song was not just listening to it on the Bad album, but w- like, the first couple of weeks I was a fan of Michael, I think I was just, like, spamming Reddit and [laughs] various message boards with, like, "Can you believe this guy?" Like, I don't know.

I was just overwhelmed.