Bilingual Bonus: "Liberian Girl" has lines in Swahili.Badass Boast: "Bad", from the first until the last line, is Jackson trying to prove he is just as cool as the bad boys.Those abortion papers! Signing your name, against the word of God? But it was still a colossal bestseller, going ten-times Platinum in the United States (upgraded to Diamond in 1999 when the RIAA opened Diamond certification) and 13-times Platinum in the United Kingdom. It has now become a gem among Jackson fans who feel it is one of his best unreleased songs.īad never reached the same success of Thriller in terms of album sales considering how well the last album did, it was probably a fool's errand to even hope for it. The track "Streetwalker" was intended for the album, but eventually kept off the album in favour of "Another Part Of Me", which according to Frank Dileo, Jackson's manager, felt more danceable. In a case of What Could Have Been, "Bad" was intended as a duet between Jackson and Prince, but Prince didn't like the opening line "your butt is mine" and thus the idea was thrown in the dumpster. His third and last collaboration with Quincy Jones, it was the long anticipated Tough Act to Follow after his previous effort Thriller had become the best-selling music album in history. It was released through Epic Records on August 31, 1987. Bad is the seventh studio album recorded by Michael Jackson.
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