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Michael Jackson I’m Bad: the video Young Mike leaves the posh high school and returns to the concrete and tar of the tenement streets. Hangso out with the homeboys and gets the treatment. How bad are you? I’m bad! No, are you bad?! or Are you really bad!!! Well, Mike just shows those dumb street homeboys, by not rolling an easy mark and letting the sucker go. Then just to make sure we really understand the moral, Mike appears with the new leather look and a bunch of homeboys and breaks into ‘Beat It,’ part two. Lots of chic ghetto dancers jumping in the air, and Mike yelling, “I'm Bad!” Now I really believe him, with all the plastic surgery he looks like Diana Ross, and I love the Supremes, and believe everything Diana says. Disturbing stuff coming from cinematic godhead Martin Scorsese and written by Richard (The Wanderers) Price, the long intro before the actual song appears is very silly. But I just love the song, very mean Quincy Jones production and Jackson fulfilling his destiny. The actual video is good and action plus, but should it have been a virtual replay of ‘ Beat It ’? Who cares —Jackson is top of the heap once again, the album is wonderful, he looks fine, and Martin Scorses made some money to make another film about some Italian
going crazy. Kerry Buchanan
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Rip It Up, Issue 122, 1 September 1987, Page 34
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231VIDEO Rip It Up, Issue 122, 1 September 1987, Page 34
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