“We’re in study and Michael says ‘I want you to make a video for ‘Man in the Mirror’ and I will not be in it.’ He was getting ready for the tour and rehearsing. However, Jackson sometimes paired his songs with music videos that were a little more low-key.ĭuring an interview with Billboard, Epic Records executive Larry Stessel recalled the creation of one of his videos. Bad included some huge, memorable singles, such as the title song, “The Way You Make Me Feel,” and “Smooth Criminal.” Each of those songs has a memorable music video. In 1987, Jackson released one of his most famous albums: Bad. The track became the fourth consecutive single from the Jackson's hit 1987 album Badto top the Billboard Hot 100, reigning on the Number One spot for two weeks.Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones | Chris Walter/WireImage A director had permission to do whatever he wanted for this Michael Jackson videoįirstly, a little background. "I did ask God’s help," Garrett recalled of the song's inspiration. "It’s God’s honest truth! I said, 'I want to write a song for Michael Jackson.' Since I wanted Michael to know who I was, I was thinking, 'What can I say to him that he wouldn’t be afraid to say to the rest of the world?' And this song came through. True to his word, Jackson enlisted Garrett to duet with him in "I Just Can't Stop Loving You." He went to work on "Man in the Mirror," sprinkling his signature "oohs" and irresistible "sch-mon," and bringing in San Francisco's Andrae Crouch choir before releasing the song in January 1988. “The first thing he said to me was, ‘I love this song.’ The next thing he said to me was, ‘I love your voice.'” “He called me back a couple hours later like, ‘This is the best song I’ve heard in, like, 10 years,'” Garrett said, explaining how Jackson called her soon after she delivered the demo to Jones' house. Written by Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard, the gospel-tinged "Man In the Mirror," sharing an uplifting message of self-betterment, instantly touched Jackson, and he rang Garrett on the phone to convey his praises of the song.
"It was," as Jones recalled, "the first outside song Michael had accepted in two years." Plotting his follow-up to Thriller, Jackson recruited close collaborator and producer Quincy Jones once more but he took a different route alongside Jones by cutting a song Jackson didn't write himself. By then, Michael Jackson had crystallized his title of Prince of Pop and there seemed few feats left that he didn't already have under his belt.
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