Man In The Mirror Live Adlibs..

[Themidwestcowboy]

Which concerts except in Mexico did he perform MITM during the third leg of the Dangerous Tour? Based on all the amateur concerts that exists from the third leg it seems to be withdrawn from most of the concerts Singapore, Moscow, Tenerife and Buenos Aires.

I was wonderin this too..

[Galactus123]

I really beg to differ. In my humble opinion MITM from Dangerous Tour is far more superior than the bad tour version. Imma tell you why i think so

For starters he had evovled alot since Bad as a dancer and a performer and that gave him this kind of ''calmness" to execute his moves with ease. His spins were alot faster and longer (Seen in monza, last spin in bucharest (?), Hamburg, etc etc.) He had also developed a thing i called '' Warmup spins ''. That is perfectly seen in the last spin of bucharest, the way he warmup by circling like a helicopter before doing the real spin.

I don't know what you mean by '' The adlibs were far better on the bad tour'' because he did the same adlibs that he did on the bad tour, he even enhanced them and added new words and new ways of phrasing them. Halfway into the tour he came in live on MITM alot sooner than he did later on the tour, just watch listen to Munich, Cologne, Stockholm, London. The way he made that amalgamation to the '' You got to make it brother. you got to lift yourself! '' was just pure genius and those adlibs were outta this world so for me his adlibbing on dangerous was alot better than bad.

The ending.. Flying away in a jetpack while the dramatic music plays in the background. The Dangerous Tour opening and ending is by far the best.

In my opinion Bad Tour MITM is better. Just because he sings more of the song live and I like how the music sounds on Bad Tour. I also prefer the Bad Tour ending because I like how the album version ends and then after that big fireworks.

L.A. MITM is amazing(Wembley MITM is is even more amazing!):



In Bucharest 1992 he starts singing just before the 2nd spin.

[zxcv16]

I don´t know why he didn´t sang live that song too~~？？？？

[Rudolf]

In my opinion Bad Tour MITM is better. Just because he sings more of the song live and I like how the music sounds on Bad Tour. I also prefer the Bad Tour ending because I like how the album version ends and then after that big fireworks.

L.A. MITM is amazing(Wembley MITM is is even more amazing!):



In Bucharest 1992 he starts singing just before the 2nd spin.

Yeah but after he presents the crew, he goes into singing again and does ton of damn amazing adlibs which I prefer over Bad tour. And then HOO HOOO HOOO HOOO and amazing spin and then he gets up and continues to sing But I do agree about Bad tour ending. Although I'm not sure whether I prefer rocket man or Bad tour. Both are epic to me.

[Themidwestcowboy]

In my opinion Bad Tour MITM is better. Just because he sings more of the song live and I like how the music sounds on Bad Tour. I also prefer the Bad Tour ending because I like how the album version ends and then after that big fireworks.

L.A. MITM is amazing(Wembley MITM is is even more amazing!):



In Bucharest 1992 he starts singing just before the 2nd spin.

I gotta admit the bad tour ending with the "Chaange... Make that change." is also powerful. Overall im leaning more towards the dangerous ending. Btw he did that ending in the tokyo shows on dangerous, so i guess it was some kind of hybrid.

[dmehta]

I really beg to differ. In my humble opinion MITM from Dangerous Tour is far more superior than the bad tour version. Imma tell you why i think so

For starters he had evovled alot since Bad as a dancer and a performer and that gave him this kind of ''calmness" to execute his moves with ease. His spins were alot faster and longer (Seen in monza, last spin in bucharest (?), Hamburg, etc etc.) He had also developed a thing i called '' Warmup spins ''. That is perfectly seen in the last spin of bucharest, the way he warmup by circling like a helicopter before doing the real spin.

I don't know what you mean by '' The adlibs were far better on the bad tour'' because he did the same adlibs that he did on the bad tour, he even enhanced them and added new words and new ways of phrasing them. Halfway into the tour he came in live on MITM alot sooner than he did later on the tour, just watch listen to Munich, Cologne, Stockholm, London. The way he made that amalgamation to the '' You got to make it brother. you got to lift yourself! '' was just pure genius and those adlibs were outta this world so for me his adlibbing on dangerous was alot better than bad.

The ending.. Flying away in a jetpack while the dramatic music plays in the background. The Dangerous Tour opening and ending is by far the best.

The reason I prefer it on the Bad Tour is because he starts singing live earlier in the song, his voice sounds better (in my opinion), the ad-libs are more intense. On the Dangerous tour the live singing starts a lot later in the song.

On the Bad tour he almost becomes possessed whilst singing MITM, he gets so into it. It's such an epic ending to the concert. Not quite the same intensity on the Dangerous tour.

[MJWE]

I prefer Bad Tour's singing & ad-libs but in Dangerous Tour, Michael's dancing is better. More longer spins and stuff... Well, if both combined, it would be awesome!

[Themidwestcowboy]

Slightly offtopic:p...



00:33, That part was even more intense than bucharest

[Dyran]

We need to see better pro-shot performance of MITM from Dangerous Tour for a fair comparison I think, the amatuer footage is pretty crappy in terms of video and particularly audio (which makes it difficult to hear the adlibs), but from what I can see from the amatuer stuff, there were much better performances of MITM than the Bucharest one (in which the best part of it was added from another show) on Dangerous Tour.
I freakin love Man In The Mirror from BAD Tour, the adlibbing is great, he puts so much emotion into it, gets some real grit into his voice, its fantastic!

[Galactus123]

Amazing MITM performance from DWT:

[Themidwestcowboy]

^^My all time favourite MITM performance! I want to see this as bad as i wanted a 88 leg concert

Just look at 3:10. See how he is experimenting with the hop-kicks before the spin. He was just alot more comfortable and routined during Dangerous.

MITM from Monza beats, MITM from Wembley,Moonwalker and Los Angeles! Oh yeah, i saaid it!...

[h0opman31]

The spin at 5:00 from Monza was ****ing amazing....A lot of energy from Monza dam I really like this performance ahaha

[Hunterr]

I think it's funny that he wore knee pads for dirty diana, but none for MITM, which he's slamming his knees on the ground a lot more.

[Dyran]

I think it's funny that he wore knee pads for dirty diana, but none for MITM, which he's slamming his knees on the ground a lot more.

Wearing them underneath instead of on top maybe?

[respect77]

I would say number one reason for playback was to save his voice becuase there is no way it would hold out if he sang every song live for all his concerts.

Yeah, this reminds me of the story of recording Earth Song for HIStory. He recorded it last, because he knew it would wear out his voice and he would need time to recover after that. Imagine having to perform MITM every second day on a tour with such intensity.