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BAD & me

I have hundreds memories to tell you. I’ll write little by little.
My first memory is my first view of SF Bad on French TV M6 in 87.
Not easy to express my feelings at that time. I was really mesmerized.
With my eyes and mouth wide open, I said to myself just wow wow wow wow wow…
It was something great I've never seen before.
Michael was so beautiful, so perfect in his dance movements.
His clothes were also fascinating.
I also loved his grimaces, and all facial expressions.
And his voice and his singing… wow wow and wow...
I’ve never forgotten, I will never forget my emotions that day.
 
im only 16, so i didnt expirience the impact of when Bad first came out in the 80's.... but i soo wish i did :heart:
i remember seeing the bad music video for the first time and falling insanely inlove with him :p i love every song on the bad album, but my absolute fave songs of all time are Man in the mirror, and The way ou make me feel :yes:
i LOVE you michael!!! :girl_love:
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I'm so happy to meet a very young fan devoted to Michael :yes:

MJ_Rocks My World said:
i remember seeing the bad music video for the first time and falling insanely inlove with him :p i love every song on the bad album, but my absolute fave songs of all time are Man in the mirror. i LOVE you michael!!! :girl_love:
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I'm exactly like you :clap:
 
I remember I have stolen a Bad poster. :ph34r:
In a cultural center managed by a friend of mine, there were halls in renovation.
Everything was to be demolished to be completely renewed.
I saw on the wall two posters of Michael : Michael in Bad era and Michael in Dangerous era.
I decided to stole them. Because the workers would surely remove to tear and throw them.
Unfortunately Dangerous poster was completely stuck on the wall, impossible to take off. I had to give it up.
So I took Bad poster. I stuck it on one of closet doors at the entrance of my apartment.
When I moved later, I carefully wrapped the poster, and I put it on the kitchen wall in my new apartment.
One day the coffee machine has exploded. All coffee is spread over the wall, on the door, on the ceiling ... inevitably also on Michael :cry:
I cleaned the poster carefully with a sponge, but there were stains everywhere. I folded the poster and I stored it in a closet. It is still there today :happy:
 
MJ_Rocks My World;3723373 said:
do you like man in the mirror and the way you make me feel ? are they your fave songs too? :) :dancing:
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My favorite song is Man in the Mirror if I have to choose one. :pleased:
The next is very difficult to choose. The Way you make me feel or Another Part of Me or Leave me alone or Dirty Diana or ??? Liberian Girl too I like very much. I Just Can’t stop lovin’ you too…

Oh my God, I forgot Smooth Criminal … :smoothcriminal:
I think Another Part of Me. Because I loved sooooooo much Captain EO. :girl_glasses:
I fell in love again and again each time when I watched this movie at EuroDisneyland. :cupid: :wub: :cupid:
 
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I was two years old when Bad came out, and honestly what I remember the most is `Fat`by Weird Al Yankovic. We did not have the Bad album, but we did have Weird Al`s cassette tape with 'Fat' and 'Eat It', both of which my brother and I thought were hilarious. As a result, I thought Beat It was on the Bad album until recently... it always seemed to fit in my mind. We would get up early and make instant coffee without my parents knowing, and run around as fast as we could trying to eat everything the songs mentioned.

I never knew really what an effect he had on music... I would hear his music and somebody at some point told me he was the king of pop so I thought, okay that`s what pop music is. I didn't know it was ground breaking, I didn't know about the Jackson 5, I didn't even know that he was black until sometime after Dangerous.

But now, Bad is my favorite album. Even though Dangerous and History have special places in my heart (I will write about that in the other threads) I love the most songs (vs the percentage of songs I just like) The only one I don`t absolutely adore is Liberian Girl, so it`s all but one. For that reason, I think it really is better than even Thriller and Off The Wall.

And that is how I felt/ feel about Bad!

Also, I'm Bad and I know it.
 
Yesterday evening, just before turning off my computer, I came across a Captain EO HD video on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAvMkZQBIXk&feature=related

While watching it, I got the influx of all my feelings of nostalgia. :angel:
How much I loved this 17 minutes movie ... :girl_aww:
I remember that my daughter, 5 years old at the time, fell in love with Michael watching Captain EO at Euro Disney. :minnie:

She was fascinated by all she was watching : Michael’s smile, voice, all his gestures and expressions, his beauty, his nice looks, his singing and dancing… :wild: :clap: :woohoo:
No surprise. Michael was perfect on Captain EO, he was a kind of creature transcending of this world. :)
I was happy and proud of my daughter's reaction. :cupid:
 
okay, BAD and ME... I'll try to keep this one as short as possible :doh:
as this was the 'best time of my life' I was 16 then and 'head over heels' in :heart: with Michael... Boys were 'interested' in me but I wasn't :blush: I had ONLY eyes for Michael :wub:

I saw Michael the first time in Werchter (Belgium) during the BAD tour August 23, 1988 and that was ONE of the BEST days of my life...

I even had the 'afro' curls in 88 :cheeky:

We even entered a contest in July 88...
My best friend was "Dirty Diana" and I was Michael in the 'complete' Dirty Diana outfit :tease:We won '4th place' ...

AH, with BAD25 I FEEL like I'm 16 again :punk:
 
@Daryll
Reading your post, I also feel back to my 16 years old days :dance_party: although different from yours :girl_hide:
 
I was born in 1989 so I wasn't around for the Bad era, BUT I got the Moonwalker VHS for my second birthday (my dad heard that it was fun and that kids on my block loved it) and I watched it all the time. The tape eventually wore out and I didn't see the film again until I was 16 which is when I got the DVD.
Also, the first time I got a burned copy of the Bad album was in 2003. I was amazed by it and it's still my favorite album. I got a burned copy from one of my friends whose dad had the cd. It was so rare in my country, even his cd wasn't an original. I got the original SE edition cd in late 2004 when all the SE cds finally became available in Croatia.
 
Katy Bird said:
I was born in 1989 so I wasn't around for the Bad era, BUT I got the Moonwalker VHS for my second birthday (my dad heard that it was fun and that kids on my block loved it) and I watched it all the time. The tape eventually wore out and I didn't see the film again until I was 16 which is when I got the DVD.
Also, the first time I got a burned copy of the Bad album was in 2003. I was amazed by it and it's still my favorite album. I got a burned copy from one of my friends whose dad had the cd. It was so rare in my country, even his cd wasn't an original. I got the original SE edition cd in late 2004 when all the SE cds finally became available in Croatia.
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Oh you're from Croatia ! :wild: That's great !! :clap: Thanks for posting :D :D
 
Bad was the album that introduced me to Michael and made me a fan, so it will always have a special place in my heart. At the time I was a 10-year-old girl, growing up in a socialist country. I remember how it happened, as it was yesterday. I was in my father's car. The son of a friend of his left his MJ cassette in my father's care and I found it. My father put it into the player and I got hooked forever! I also remember looking at the cover of the album, thinking the guy looked unusual, but I found him attractive. My father made a copy for me and I listened to it all the time. It never got boring. All songs were great and exciting.

That was also the time when MTV, videos etc. started to come in to my country. So I saw Bad and other videos and they made me hooked even more. I also fell in love with Michael. My first love. LOL. I started to buy teen magazines and collect everything in connection with Michael. I remember in my class me and one other girl were huge Michael fans. I also remember there was another bunch who were Bros fans and there was a boy, a Bros fan, who always teased us and Michael. I guess only the Europeans here who were teens at the time are aware who Bros were. Here:


It's funny now even to think about that this boy thought these guys were better than Michael, but Bros were the hip of the moment at the time for European teens. But me and the other girl were the big Michael fans in the class.

It was a very happy, careless time to be a Michael fan. Even though sometimes the media already started to say bad things about him, but these were almost innocent compared to what was to come in the 90s. Of course then I bought Michael's previous albums as well: Thriller, Off The Wall. I never really got into OTW that much for long. It took me time until I started to appreciate it. I liked Thriller, but Bad was the huge favorite for a long time.
 
I was born in 1988, so I didn't get to experience the BAD era first hand..which is sad because it's one of my favorite periods and definitely the BAD album holds a special place in my heart. I first heard a few songs from it through a cd that one of my dad's friend burned for me at the time. It had mixed songs obviously, because I didn't know about "eras" and such. It had TWYMMF along with Man in the Mirror and I fell in love with both. I eventually bought the SE that was released in 2001 and MAN it became my favorite album from that year to around 2003, plus I loved how Michael looked, I was so obsessed with his looks (still am I guess lol) :laugh:. I must point out that I first bought Thriller SE, soon after BAD and then Off the Wall SE's. those three albums will always hold a special place in my life because I discovered so much not just musically but more about MJ's character and his heart. I just LOVE BAD and will do so 'till the end of time. :D :wub:
 
respect77;3727921 said:
Bad was the album that introduced me to Michael and made me a fan, so it will always have a special place in my heart. At the time I was a 10-year-old girl, growing up in a socialist country.
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I’d like to know if, for the people in those countries at that time, American culture was an open aspiration source or on the contrary, a kind of taboo, a kind of forbidden…
I think there are gaps between official version and people’s personal feelings.
I ask such a question because I read somewhere that Michael represented the symbol of freedom for people in socialist countries. If so, his influence should be more or less great for later social reform…
Anyway if the concert in Bucharest had been chosen to be broadcast around the world, it was not a ‘fruit of hazard’, there was a full meaning.
 
laeticia.fr;3728552 said:
I’d like to know if, for the people in those countries at that time, American culture was an open aspiration source or on the contrary, a kind of taboo, a kind of forbidden…
I think there are gaps between official version and people’s personal feelings.
I ask such a question because I read somewhere that Michael represented the symbol of freedom for people in socialist countries. If so, his influence should be more or less great for later social reform…
Anyway if the concert in Bucharest had been chosen to be broadcast around the world, it was not a ‘fruit of hazard’, there was a full meaning.
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I can only speak for myself and Hungary. I was 10 so I wasn't aware of the political aspects. Since the 60s Hungary was not really as strict as other socialist countries. We were called the "happiest barrack" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulash_Communism ) because it was a relatively more free country than other socialist countries. We also got more Western influence. But it doesn't mean we were a Western country. It was around and after the fall of socialism (end of 80s) when more Western influence started to come in. Such as Western TV channels - including MTV. So that was the first time when I could see music videos and Michael's videos.

I’d like to know if, for the people in those countries at that time, American culture was an open aspiration source or on the contrary, a kind of taboo, a kind of forbidden…
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I think for the youth American culture was an aspiration source since the 60s. We had bands since the 60s listening to and trying to copy the big Western bands, like the Beatles, Rolling Stones. The establishment was a bit wary of it, though these bands (Beatles, Stones) weren't banned, as far as I know. However there was centralized control over the Hungarian bands: there were those who were banned, those who were supported and those who were somewhere in between, not banned but not supported either. I think it was partly based on the lyrics, partly on if a band had a rebel kind of image, partly on the personal musical taste of those in office...

I also think the youth at the time had an idealized (not necessarily realistic) image of the USA. Today people are not so much in awe of the US any more here (actually there's quite a lot of anti-American sentiment).

I ask such a question because I read somewhere that Michael represented the symbol of freedom for people in socialist countries. If so, his influence should be more or less great for later social reform…
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Maybe Michael was a symbol of freedom in other countries, but I cannot really claim this for Hungary. He was never really as popular here as in Romania, for example. I wish he was, of course, but I think most Hungarians are more rock/"white music" oriented. If there's any rock band being symobolic here for the fall of socialism then it must be Queen because they were the first Western band playing here in a big stadium gig in 1986. (That concert is being released recently with the title Hungarian Rhapsody.) Michael did not tour here until 1996 (though he was here in 1994 with LMP for the shooting of the HIStory trailer).
 
I don't remember much about the Bad Era since I was only 7 years old when it had started. But this is what I do remember from that era.: My childhood was something I truly want to forget about. Which would explain why don't have much of a memory at all about the Bad Era.

I remember in May of 1988 I saw his Bad video for the first time ever. I remember being happy that I wasn't the only one who had a skin disorder. I knew right away Michael had one too. Because his skin look lighter than I remember it being. A few years before that. Of course it wasn't until several years later. When I finally heard the name of his skin disorder. I also had gotten a huge mad crush on Michael from that video. Which only last for 4 years. Until I saw his In The Closet video when I was 12. And fallen madly in L.O.V.E. with him. And it has remained that way ever since.


I also remember later that year I saw an advertisement on tv for Moonwalker. At the time I didn't know what it was that I saw. But all I remember was that white suit with a blue shirt that Michael had on. Of course it wasn't until I was a few years older was when I knew about the Smooth Criminal video. And that was the outfit he wore for it.


I also remember the only MJ commercial I ever saw on tv. Which was the street commercial for LA Gear high tops. But I had forgotten the commercial. All I could ever remember about it. Was that Michael was dancing under a street light. And that it had a child in it. For years and years I couldn't remember whether it was either for Pepsi or for LA Gear. And it always drove me nuts that I coud not remember. Until a few years I was on you tube looking at some MJ videos. And I saw the LA Gear Street commercial and realized that this was the commercial I remember seeing back then.


But one thing that I really remember is my obsession for LA Gear high tops. This was back in the late 80s and early 90s. My mother no matter how hard she tried could not get me to wear another brand of sneaker. It always had to be LA Gear and it always had to be the high tops. With the 2 different colored shoe laces. Or I just wouldn't wear them. I remember back in 1990 when I was 10. I remember going to my one local shoe store. Because I had wanted another pair of LA Gear high tops. I found the pair that I had like. So my mother paid for them and we went home. It wasn't until the next morning I went to go put them on. Was when I finally took notice of the box that my new shoes came in. And realized that these are one of the MJ pairs I had gotten. I just couldn't believe it. And I just could not get those shoes on fast enough after I had saw that. Not only they were my most favorite pair of LA Gear high tops. That I had ever gotten. They were also my most worn pair. Until a few years later when my mother had to get rid of them because they were getting too tight on me. But if I only knew then of what I know now I would have hold on to them. I just so totally regret telling my mother to get rid of them. Even though I sadly no longer have those shoes. I can still remember exactly what they had look like. Because I will never forget them. How can I when they were my first MJ item I had ever gotten.
 
respect77;3728650 said:
I can only speak for myself and Hungary. I was 10 so I wasn't aware of the political aspects. Since the 60s Hungary was not really as strict as other socialist countries. We were called the "happiest barrack" because it was a relatively more free country than other socialist countries. We also got more Western influence. But it doesn't mean we were a Western country. It was around and after the fall of socialism (end of 80s) when more Western influence started to come in. Such as Western TV channels - including MTV. So that was the first time when I could see music videos and Michael's videos.

I think for the youth American culture was an aspiration source since the 60s. We had bands since the 60s listening to and trying to copy the big Western bands, like the Beatles, Rolling Stones.

I also think the youth at the time had an idealized (not necessarily realistic) image of the USA. Today people are not so much in awe of the US any more here (actually there's quite a lot of anti-American sentiment).

Maybe Michael was a symbol of freedom in other countries, but I cannot really claim this for Hungary. He was never really as popular here as in Romania, for example. I wish he was, of course, but I think most Hungarians are more rock/"white music" oriented. If there's any rock band being symobolic here for the fall of socialism then it must be Queen because they were the first Western band playing here in a big stadium gig in 1986. (That concert is being released recently with the title Hungarian Rhapsody.) Michael did not tour here until 1996 (though he was here in 1994 with LMP for the shooting of the HIStory trailer).
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Thank you so much, Respect 77, for explaining what I wanted to know. :D

I have almost no idea about your country which was still under the socialist regime.
Thanks to your description, I learned that people in your country had been enjoying the freedom in some degree. It seems that Hungarian people were somehow privileged, compared to other Eastern European people, at least in the matter of American culture, especially in the field of music, although they were rather familiar with “white music” and had passion for Queen.

I also understand that Eastern European people’s dream for the U.S. has changed since, as you write :”Today people are not so much in awe of the US any more here (actually there's quite a lot of anti-American sentiment).” It makes me think of common points with my country (France) who always fed anti-American feelings. But the cause is different. For us, it is something that affects our pride as a country that is based on the long and glorious past. I won’t talk more about, because it would be out of the topic.

Instead, I’ll talk about one of my friends from Eastern Europe.

One of my best friends is from Poland, she has immigrated to France in the early 80s.
I was surprised to hear that there, they do not learn English, but Russian at school. I was also surprised to know she had never watched any Disney movie before coming to France, and listened to nothing but classical music. (But as for the music, I guess it's because her mother was a great pianist.) Anyway my surprises mean I really had no idea of people’s life in these countiries.

She doesn’t dislike Michael Jackson. I felt like she appreciated his music, but I remember she didn’t like watching VHS "Michael Jackson Video Greatest Hits HIStory" that my daughter and me loved so much. She didn’t like Disneyland either, although she liked American culture in general and often went to the US to see her best friend immigrated in the US.
To my knowledge, she was the only person who had not been impressed by Michael in Captain EO. :blink:

But I didn’t care about cultural differences between her and me, which didn’t prevent us from being great close friends. She respected my feelings for Michael, and she didn’t believe at all in the allegations in 93 like all other friends of mine at that time.
 
MJsBollywoodGirl7;3728746 said:
But one thing that I really remember is my obsession for LA Gear high tops. This was back in the late 80s and early 90s. My mother no matter how hard she tried could not get me to wear another brand of sneaker. It always had to be LA Gear and it always had to be the high tops. With the 2 different colored shoe laces. Or I just wouldn't wear them. I remember back in 1990 when I was 10. I remember going to my one local shoe store. Because I had wanted another pair of LA Gear high tops. I found the pair that I had like. So my mother paid for them and we went home. It wasn't until the next morning I went to go put them on. Was when I finally took notice of the box that my new shoes came in. And realized that these are one of the MJ pairs I had gotten. I just couldn't believe it. And I just could not get those shoes on fast enough after I had saw that. Not only they were my most favorite pair of LA Gear high tops. That I had ever gotten. They were also my most worn pair. Until a few years later when my mother had to get rid of them because they were getting too tight on me. But if I only knew then of what I know now I would have hold on to them. I just so totally regret telling my mother to get rid of them. Even though I sadly no longer have those shoes. I can still remember exactly what they had look like. Because I will never forget them. How can I when they were my first MJ item I had ever gotten.
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I loved your shoes story. :blush: I understand what your shoes accounted for you.

I have a similar experience : I bought a fedora I don’t remember whether it was in Bad era or not, it seems it was. I bought it without really thinking of Michael, it was much later that I associated my fedora to Michael’s. I was collecting few magazines or pictures, because I was not a teenager when I became MJ fan, I just had a great poster that I had stolen, as I wrote earlier on this thread.

For me, it was this fedora which represented Michael more than other items, except his CDs, VHSs or audio cassettes.

I have worn it just two or three times in winter when it was cold. For me it was a decoration item, usually it was hooked on the living room wall. :happy:

Sometimes my female friends have worn it to watch themselves in the mirror, to tell me any hat would fit them.
I told them nothing but in my heart I was not very happy, because it was my Michael, and my friends were not allowed to touch my Michael. :eek:

The fedora is still there. I regularly remove dust, and I keep it in my hands for a while with all my thoughts for Michael, as does Michael before his performance of Billie Jean. :girl_give_heart:
 
laeticia.fr;3728959 said:
One of my best friends is from Poland, she has immigrated to France in the early 80s.
I was surprised to hear that there, they do not learn English, but Russian at school. I was also surprised to know she had never watched any Disney movie before coming to France, and listened to nothing but classical music. (But as for the music, I guess it's because her mother was a great pianist.) Anyway my surprises mean I really had no idea of people’s life in these countiries.
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Yeah, that was the same in all Eastern European countries. In elementary school, back in the 80s, I too studied Russian as a second language. Everybody had to. I only took up English and German in high school (I went to high school in 1992).

If you are interested in pop music behind the Iron Curtain (at least in Hungary). Here is some:

Neoton Familia - they played a kind of ABBA styled disco music. This is an attempt in English. Yeah, I know their English is pretty horrible. LOL. But they had some catchy tunes and were very popular at the time. They were one of the groups which were supported by the state. This meant the opportunity for them to go abroad. In fact, they were pretty popular in Japan!
At the end of the video you can see the logo of the MAHIR film studio, which was the state film studio (every such thing was monopolized by the state at the time), so this is actually a state sponsored video. LOL. (Unimaginable in many other, more strict Eastern countries.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUiSWPRhlt0

This is the original in Hungarian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2IZRfx2_JE

Actually they still exist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16P31JXO9UQ&feature=related

Omega - this is a rock band that too was somewhat supported so they could go abroad and even make records there. Actually, they have the best selling Hungarian album abroad, Time Robber, which sold 1 million copies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFnwqE2elAQ

They still have a pretty big fan base in Eastern European countries (not only in Hungary). Their music is kind of influenced by Pink Floyd, I think. I'm not a fan, but they were my mom's favorite band when she was young.

Thing is that at the time for the rest of Eastern Europe a band like Omega was the closest thing to a Western band and Hungary was the closest thing to a Western country within the socialist block, because, like I said here Western influence was more allowed and we were more free than in other countries. So I think that was a part of Omega's appeal for the other Eastern European countries.

Regarding the 1986 Queen concert. That's an interesting story too, because that was the first time I think that a major Western band played behind the iron curtain. Actually they first wanted to invite the Rolling Stones, then Santana, but they declined, so that's how it came to Queen. (I don't mind it at all. My first choice of the three would have been Queen.) And the reason why Queen now can release a HD Blue-ray of the concert (Hungarian Rhapsody will come out on Blue-ray/DVD in November) because the Hungarian government was so keen on shooting a film of the concert and do it on 35 mm film! It was the Hungarian side's idea and basically the cream of the Hungarian film industry at the time were working on it. They were very enthusiastic. As well as the public. My father was there at the concert. Here are Queen in Budapest (you can see Freddie rehearsing a Hungarian folk song that he performed at the concert): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE--iJ5xSJU

Here is it at the concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2O4dZgAIcU&feature=related

For the others: sorry for going off topic.
 
That is really interesting, thank you! The videos are blockedin my country though... too bad cause I love Freddie! (And Queen!)

Lark
 
respect77;3729016 said:
Yeah, that was the same in all Eastern European countries. In elementary school, back in the 80s, I too studied Russian as a second language. Everybody had to. I only took up English and German in high school (I went to high school in 1992).

If you are interested in pop music behind the Iron Curtain (at least in Hungary). Here is some.
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Wow. You already learned Russian at elementary school… :blink:

While I couldn’t access the site, I studied about Hungary in French Wiki. :reading: The content was thick and full. I learned a lot, especially about the country's long history that I cannot recall whether I had learned at school or not. And I was reassured to know that Catholicism is the main religion there. I also watched your country’s pictures. :happy: I studied about some other East European countries too. It was very interesting, I'm glad having learned what I didn’t know. :)

As for the Hungarian rock bands, I liked it, especially when they sing in Hungarian. I can say it is a pleasant language to listen to for French people’s ears. In general, I like listening to songs sung in languages I don’t know, but not in any language of the world. :music:

Omega’s music quality is surprisingly in high level, we can hardly imagine this was from a country of Eastern Europe. (Sorry for saying like that). Especially compared to French pop music, Hungarian music is one or two centuries ahead. :yes:
 
I was 7 when the Bad album was released and I remember a lot of things from that time. I was already obsessed with Michael as I loved the Thriller album so much. I didn't have any money but my brother had saved his allowence and bought the tape. As I had just gotten a cassetplayer for my birthday I got the tape out of his room to make a copy. After that I was glued to the radio, listening to the album over and over again.
I remember loving Leave me alone back then. As I'm Dutch I didn't understand a word of English yet (that came 2 years later when I started learning english in school), but I loved that song. Beat it, Bad and Smooth Criminal were my other favourites. Man in the mirror came later when I started to understand the lyrics.

The Bad album only made me love Michael more. My brother got a big ass poster from our local record store and gave it to me. The image on it was the front of the Bad album. Who doesn't love that image? haha. It has been on the wall of my bedroom for years. Unfortunately one day I came home and it had fallen of and the fall had caused a huge tear in it. I was so bummed.
 
Sunflowers;3730235 said:
I was 7 when the Bad album was released and I remember a lot of things from that time. I was already obsessed with Michael as I loved the Thriller album so much. I didn't have any money but my brother had saved his allowence and bought the tape. As I had just gotten a cassetplayer for my birthday I got the tape out of his room to make a copy. After that I was glued to the radio, listening to the album over and over again.
I remember loving Leave me alone back then. As I'm Dutch I didn't understand a word of English yet (that came 2 years later when I started learning english in school), but I loved that song. Beat it, Bad and Smooth Criminal were my other favourites. Man in the mirror came later when I started to understand the lyrics.

The Bad album only made me love Michael more. My brother got a big ass poster from our local record store and gave it to me. The image on it was the front of the Bad album. Who doesn't love that image? haha. It has been on the wall of my bedroom for years. Unfortunately one day I came home and it had fallen of and the fall had caused a huge tear in it. I was so bummed.
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You had very good ears from early in your life. Because when you listened to Thriller album, you were very young. You still were when you listened to Bad album. You are probably born with special good ears ;D Thus, one could say you had been a MJ fan throughout your whole past life and that’s great. I'm sure someone like you will always love Michael for all your future life. :yes:

And I know very well the feelings one get seeing Michael’s poster damaged. :mello: As I wrote earlier on this thread, that happened to me. :blink: My dear giant poster of Michael had received a large amount of soaked ground coffee and liquid coffee due to the explosion of my espresso machine..., :eek:hmy2: I had the impression that the world has collapsed in front of me. :bugeyed: The shock was so big that I couldn’t even cry at the time or later. :eek: I stayed for a while without moving, :blink: completely drained inside me, :busted: without being able to realize what had happened. :shock:
 
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