Another Part Of Me

Michael Jackson - Tabloid Junkie (arX Backgrounds)

Set List

00 Intro
01 JAM
02 Scream/Xscape
03 Loving You
04 Heartbreak Hotel
05 You Are Not Alone
06 Stranger In Moscow
07 Smooth Criminal
08 Dangerous
09 Jackson 5 Medley
10 Off The Wall Medley
11 Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
12 Billie Jean
13 Black Or White
14 Chicago
15 The Way You Make Me Feel
16 Thriller
17 Beat It
18 Dirty Diana
19 Remember The Time
20 (TBA)
21 (TBA)
22 (TBA)
23 (TBA)
24 (TBA)
25 (TBA)

01 JAM

17. Little Susie

25 Love Never Felt So Good

Anna

Anna (Original Mix)

This is a very accomplished piece of song writing by Michael Jackson, reminding us that he didn't just cherry pick material from others, he really was a true master. The chord progressions are unusual and complex, changing key subtly and confidently like a modal jazz composition. I approach it by keeping it clean for the intro, following Jackson's melody line. I then explore with piano and light acoustic guitars. The hook gets a typical jazz technique of playing octaves for the line. The solo is then restrained to keep the song's beauty. The middle eight gets a guitar solo with a tougher tone. It's a joy to play over by following the key changes.
Originally this track a 1987 ballad by Michael Jackson featuring a duet with Siedah Garrett, and was the first single released from his seventh album, Bad. The song was written by Jackson, and co-produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, R&B and adult contemporary charts.
The song became the first of five consecutive number-one Hot 100 singles from the Bad album. It was Jackson's second number-one song on the AC chart (his first, coincidentally, had also been a duet: 1982's "The Girl Is Mine" with Paul McCartney). It was released without an accompanying music video.
The presence of Garrett on the track was a last-minute decision by Jackson and Jones, after Jackson's first two choices for the duet, Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, both decided against participating. Garrett, a protégé of Jones's who co-wrote another song on Bad, "Man in the Mirror", did not know that she would be singing the song until the day of the recording session.


Michael Jackson - Tabloid Junkie (arX Backgrounds)

Liam Edwards