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"'Bad' is a song about the street. It's about this kid from a bad neighborhood who gets to go away to a private school. He comes back to the old neighborhood when he's on a break from school and the kids from the neighborhood start giving him trouble. He sings, 'I'm bad, you're bad, who's bad, who's the best?' He's saying when you're strong and good, then you're bad."
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 student's friends' jealousy resulted in them killing the student; Jackson stated that the student's death was not included in the music video The case was that of Edmund Perry
On casual listening you might think this song is just another ode to a woman, named Kyrie. Not so....
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The words to "Kyrie" were written by Arizona-born lyricist John Lang who co-wrote the songs on all of Mr. Mister's albums. The music was composed by Richard Page and Steve George while on tour with Adam Ant.
"TV Dinners", ZZ Top. It's about, well, TV dinners. "I like the enchiladas and the teriyaki too/I even like the chicken if the sauce is not too blue." just noticed, 30+ years later, that the actor in the video uses an Ouija Board for a serving tray (1:40).
Neil Young, "This Note's for You", satirizing the sponsorship of concerts. A slender Whitney Houston look-alike loses her wig, Spuds Mackenzie hangs out with bikini-clad models, Pepsi, Coke, Miller and Bud are ridiculed, an avant-garde commercial for Calvin Klein's "Obsession", renamed "Confession" is parodied. And Michael Jackson's hair bursts into flames.
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