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Bill Bottrell tells the story behind "Monkey Business"

Prince Of Pop said:
I think it's a good song, but ultimately glad it was left off Dangerous. They were going in a serious direction for the album, and honestly, the sound of monkey's in the background would have brought it down IMO.

I do think they should re-release this on another album like they did with a couple other Ultimate Collection tracks. I even think a collaboration with the surviving members of The Gorillaz with a music video similar to Feel Good Inc would be fantastic, and one I think Michael would have loved and found hilarious. That song was The Gorillaz biggest, if not only hit, and came around early 2000s....so Michael should have known who they were.

I think it's a match made in Heaven.
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They were not strictly going in a serious direction for the 'Dangerous' album.

Note, for example, that they included car horns on the 'She Drives Me Wild' song.

Or, that Michael Jackson included those moans towards the end of the 'In The Closet' song.

Or, the danceable, carefree, and light-hearted sound of the new jack swing songs of the album.

'Monkey Business' would not have sounded out of place on the 'Dangerous' album, considering also the fact that the artwork of that album has monkey illustrations.
 
The booklet of The Ultimate Collection says that Monkey Business features a very smooth Marvin Gaye vocal buttressed by very gospel organ figures behind Michael on the verse. Who found the Marvin Gaye vocal?
 
Hot_Street said:
The booklet of The Ultimate Collection says that Monkey Business features a very smooth Marvin Gaye vocal buttressed by very gospel organ figures behind Michael on the verse. Who found the Marvin Gaye vocal?
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I do hear some Marvin Gaye on the vocal performance
 
Monkey Business is best song from Dangerous. I wonder, why Michael refused to put it on album and release it as lead single
 
It's one of his most intriguing and interesting songs musically and specially lyrically, for me one of his very best, what a shame that it was left just there... no that you're saying it does sound more like a Bad outtakes, actually it sounds a little bit like Cheater, another one great forgotten gem. It's a very dark song actually very angry. What a shame that it seems to imply that Michael didn't have nothing to do with the music.
 
ssj said:
I lo lo love this song so much, gotta be in my top 10 MJ songs of all time. It's so funky, so groovy and honestly sounds like something Prince would have done, would love to see a proper release some day...
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yes i hear Prince in there
 
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