The person with the kindest heart, the purest spirit and the talent to impress the entire world! I love him so much.
I’ll give you more than a hug.
Edit: I’ve just noticed how his hand tightens around her back, you can see he genuinely feels touched by this hug :3
The BAD album was the third Michael Jackson album produced by Quincy Jones and was originally released on August 31, 1987. It was monumental in many ways; Michael wrote nine of the album’s eleven tracks and received co-producer credit for the entire album. The album was #1 around the world, made history with five consecutive #1 singles on the Billboard chart, produced ten chart-topping singles, nine ground breaking short films and to date, the Bad album has generated over 45 Million units in sales. BAD was nominated for six Grammys and won two; the album earned Michael the first-ever Video Vanguard Award at the MTV VMA Awards. Songs on the original album are: “Bad,” “The Way You Make Me Feel,” “Speed Demon,” “Liberian Girl,” “Just Good Friends” featuring Stevie Wonder, “Another Part of Me,” “Man in the Mirror,” “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Dirty Diana,” “Smooth Criminal,” with “Leave Me Alone” added to the album once released.
The BAD World Tour was Michael’s first concert tour as a solo artist. The legendary tour included 123 concerts attended by more than 4.4 million fans over sixteen months. When it concluded, the tour had shattered all previous touring records for attendance and total gross revenue adding three new entries in the Guinness World Records for the largest grossing tour in history, the tour with the largest attended audience and the most sold out shows at Wembley Stadium.
For many fans and critics, the soulful “Butterflies” is one of the hidden gems of Michael Jackson’s late career. Like “Heaven can wait,” it reminds people of what made Jackson’s voice such a revelation in the first place, yet benefits from added maturity and sophistication. Though Sony never officially released “Butterflies” as a single, it quickly became an underground hit, particularly in urban areas like New York City. Given the enthusiastic response, many people simply couldn’t understand why it wasn’t promoted as the new sound of Michael Jackson. “It would have opened people’s minds,” music critic Steven Ivory told NPR. “Butterflies” still managed to reach #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Singles chart on the strength of air play alone. The song was introduced to Jackson by longtime friend and record executive, John McClain. Jackson liked what he heard in the track by Floetry, a young neo-jazz/soul duo from England. Marsha Ambrosius recalls receiving a message from the King of Pop in 2000: “This really light voice comes out of the answering machine: ‘I’m really interested in that stuff coming out of A Touch of Jazz. That Floetry stuff is really cool’. It was Michael Jackson” After receiving several potential demos, Jackson choose “Butterflies”. A few months later Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart were in the studio working with him on the song. “It was incredible,” recalled Ambrosius of the experience, “because he continually asked, ‘Marsh, what’s the next harmony? Girls, does this sound right? What do you think? Is this what you were looking for?’ He was so open.”
“It is not too overstated to suggest that ‘Butterflies’ is one of Jackson’s most significant R&B recordings in some time,” argued music critic Mark Anthony Neal. “Jackson opens the song with a growl-like murmur of a tenor, but the song takes off in the second verse when he pushes his range to breathy lilting falsetto that powerfully captures the vulnerability that the song’s lyrics attempt to convey.” “Butterflies” has become one of Jackson’s most highly regarded late works, and continues to be “discovered” by music lovers who missed it the first go-round.
