Pink Diamond Princess;4159658 said:
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Remember The Time is without a doubt one of MJ's best short films, and the song is one of his best too.
Additionally, IMO it's also the best live action film based in Egypt ever made.
Let's discuss the awesomeness of this short film and song.
Personally, I think that ‘Remember The Time’ was his
safest track (on the ‘Dangerous’ album), & subsequently one of his safest singles he has ever released. This is because of its catchy chorus, trendy (at that time) sound & rather skin-deep lyrics. Hence, its commercial success did not surprise me at all.
Apart from its release as a single, ‘Remember The Time’ was included also on various, official dance-infused releases (such as, promo mega-mixes/medleys) that furthered even more its commercial success.
Also, the inception of ‘Remember The Time’ (in terms of its music/sound) comes directly from MJ’s desire to record a song (or songs) during that period that would have been
musically as hard as Teddy Riley’s song ‘Spend The Night’:
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… and his [MJ’s] favorite song was ‘Spend The Night’ on the ‘Guy’ album, that was his favorite song of all times that I did and he [MJ] said I want that sound. So, you know, we did ‘Remember The Time’, he said that’s not quite ‘Spend The Night’ but it’s hard, but I [MJ] want something hard like ‘Spend The Night’, so that’s when we did ‘Trippin’ [‘Why You Wanna Trip On Me’]…” (Teddy Riley, Pensado’s Place)
Regarding its music clip, I believe that it is one of those cases when the accompanying video
elevates significantly the song. Also, those mega stars that co-star (especially Eddie Murphy) imbue the music clip with a humorous tone, while the visual effects work impressively well!
It should be noted also that Murphy’s appearance on ‘Remember The Time’ was the reason for MJ’s later participation on Murphy’s ‘Whatzupwitu’ song & video clip that were released one year after (MJ did background vocals & also co-appeared on the video clip of that song).
Finally, as regards the live performance of ‘Remember The Time’, I think no
official explanation was ever given about its withdrawal from the Dangerous Tour. But, having experienced costumes-related problems (during the rehearsals of that song), it seems that MJ did not want to take the risk of having such problems recurring (problems that could have embarrassed some of the on-stage dancers in front of thousands of people).
