Released: October 16, 2001
Songwriter: Quincy Jones
Producer: Quincy Jones
Legendary producer Quincy Jones talks about historical meeting between Michael Jackson and Prince, the making of Bad the short film, and one of the tracks Streetwalker did not make the album.
[Quincy Jones]
Michael was saying "Let's go" you know, and so we started, like as usual, he goes on the studio, he starts a lot of stuff, you know, those hundreds of tapes and stuff like that, you know, and it was great. And this is the one where I asked to write all the tunes, and I can see him just drawing as an artist and understand the production and all that stuff. Bad was conceived, I wanted to do it with Prince, you know, It would've been great, man, really well, you know, it's just for drama, man, you know how it fights as two of them, you know. I have a video with him coming to kick Michael's ass and says "Your butt is mine", you know, I mean, that's what it's written for, you know, to do that, and I set up the meeting with Prince and Michael, this is the historical night, Prince finally said "You don't need me, to be honest", and I'm like "It will be him without me", you know. And I remember when we finished, I called Martin Scorsese, he was in the
[Quincy Jones]
Michael was saying "Let's go" you know, and so we started, like as usual, he goes on the studio, he starts a lot of stuff, you know, those hundreds of tapes and stuff like that, you know, and it was great. And this is the one where I asked to write all the tunes, and I can see him just drawing as an artist and understand the production and all that stuff. Bad was conceived, I wanted to do it with Prince, you know, It would've been great, man, really well, you know, it's just for drama, man, you know how it fights as two of them, you know. I have a video with him coming to kick Michael's ass and says "Your butt is mine", you know, I mean, that's what it's written for, you know, to do that, and I set up the meeting with Prince and Michael, this is the historical night, Prince finally said "You don't need me, to be honest", and I'm like "It will be him without me", you know. And I remember when we finished, I called Martin Scorsese, he was in the
more tracks from the album
Bad (Special Edition)
- Man in the Mirror
- Quincy Jones (Bad) Interview #3
- Quincy Jones Interview #2
- Quincy Jones Interview #1
- Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu
- Fly Away
- Streetwalker
- Leave Me Alone
- I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
- Another Part of Me
- Just Good Friends
- Liberian Girl
- Speed Demon
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- Smooth Criminal
- Dirty Diana
- Bad
- Spoken Intro to Fly Away
From the album
- Bad (Special Edition) (2001)
Michael Jackson popular songs
- Billie Jean
- Smooth Criminal
- They Don’t Care About Us
- Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
- Man in the Mirror
- Thriller
- Human Nature
- Beat It
- Dirty Diana
- Heal the World
- Bad
- Black or White
- Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough
- Earth Song
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
- Rock with You
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- You Are Not Alone
- Remember the Time
- You Rock My World
- Will You Be There
- Scream
- Off the Wall
- The Girl Is Mine