"Bad" lyrics

"Bad"

Your butt is mine
Gonna tell you right
Just show your face
In broad daylight
I'm telling you
On how I feel
Gonna hurt your mind
Don't shoot to kill
Shamone, shamone
Lay it on me
All right

I'm giving you
On count of three
To show your stuff
Or let it be
I'm telling you
Just watch your mouth
I know your game
What you're about

Well they say the sky's the limit
And to me that's really true
But my friend you have seen nothing
Just wait 'til I get through

Because I'm bad, I'm bad, shamone
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know I'm bad, I'm bad, shamone, you know
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
And the whole world has to answer right now
Just to tell you once again who's bad

The word is out
You're doin' wrong
Gonna lock you up
Before too long
Your lyin' eyes
Gonna tell you right
So listen up
Don't make a fight
Your talk is cheap
You're not a man
You're throwin' stones
To hide your hands

But they say the sky's the limit
And to me that's really true
But my friend you have seen nothing
Just wait 'til I get through

Because I'm bad, I'm bad, shamone
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it, you know
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
And the whole world has to answer right now
Just to tell you once again who's bad

We can change the world tomorrow
This could be a better place
If you don't like what I'm sayin'
Then won't you slap my face

Because I'm bad, I'm bad, shamone
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it, you know
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
(And the whole world has to answer right now
Just to tell you once again...)

You know I'm bad, I'm bad, shamone
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it, you know it
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know, you know, you know, come on
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
And the whole world has to answer right now
(And the whole world has to answer right now)
Just to tell you
(Just to tell you once again)

You know I'm smooth, I'm bad, you know it
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know I'm bad, I'm bad, baby
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know, you know, you know it, come on
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
And the whole world has to answer right now
(And the whole world has to answer right now
Just to tell you once again)

You know I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know I'm bad, you know
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
You know I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it, you know
(Bad, bad, really, really bad)
And the whole world has to answer right now
(And the whole world has to answer right now)
Just to tell you once again who's bad?
(Just to tell you once again)


Thanks to Kaylee Blackford for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Rene Moore, Bruce F Swedien, Dallas L. Austin, Michael Joe Jackson
Michael Jackson explained that this song was inspired by a real story he had read about: a young man tried to escape poverty by attending private school but was killed when he returned home.
The original idea for this track was to make a duet between Michael Jackson and Prince, but the latter wasn't very good at collaborations and, besides, when he heard the song, he told Quincy Jones that it would be a hit even without him.
The music video for "Bad" was partly inspired by the film "West Side Story" (1961). Martin Scorsese directed it. Wesley Snipes made one of his first appearances in it. Michael Jackson plays a gangster, and his street gang dances in a subway station.
Two Michael Jackson's music videos, for "Bad" and "The Way You Make Me Feel", were nominated for Best Choreography at the 1988 MTV Video Music Awards Ceremony, however, Janet Jackson's video "The Pleasure Principle" won the award.
Singer Roberta Flack plays Darryl's mom in the video for this song. Darryl is played by Michael Jackson.
To create a video for "Bad", Quincy Jones called Martin Scorsese who was working on the film "The Color of Money" at the time. Jones asked for four days of his time to shoot the video. Scorsese agreed and brought his crew along, including a cinematographer, a writer, a producer and an editor.
Martin Scorsese shared his experience on making the music video by saying, "It was a different form for me. The big issue really was the temptation to do this really major dance piece with camera moves... Shooting the big dance scene was the allure of it. Michael was never a person who was overly enthusiastic. He was quiet. Accepting. ...There was never any resistance, but questions. He was open to everything."
Prince explained a never-happened duet on this song between him and Michael Jackson in a 1997 VH1 interview, "The first line in that song is 'your butt is mine' so I was saying, 'Who gonna sing that to whom? Because you sure ain't singing it to me, and I sure ain't singing it to you.' So right there we got a problem."
Weird Al Yankovic made a parody of this song called "Fat" for his album "Even Worse" (1998). Michael Jackson approved this version, as he had done before for Yankovic's hit "Eat It".
This song was featured in the 2010 animated film "Megamind".
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