Why Wanna Be Startin Somethin?

[analogue]

This is something that i could never understand. Why is it that out of the songs MJ could have picked to sing live on the HIStory tour why did he choose Wanna Be Startin Somethin? You'd think that he'd save his voice for one the bigger hits like Billie Jean or something

 

[daphnieas]

I don't know that either, but if you notice, he doesn't really dance that much during WBSS, he mostly leaves it up to the dancers.
However in...let's say Billie Jean, that's one of the most demanding dance numbers so I guess he didn't wanted to compromise the audio quality. Just a guess.

 

[mjdvds]

Because he love performing wbss, and with the style he chooses for his live performances, he can't get away with miming to the album vocals, the live versions are faster and Michael never really perfected wbss, he was never happy with it