@@andrep9827a real artist would be as great as michael was if they actually did it like this down to a tee💯he was more than just a professional artist, he was a genius so stay humble my friend
This vid is priceless. MJ and Bruce going through all the takes of one of the pre-choruses, just to find the perfect one, reveals how much of perfectionnists they were 🥹 Genius work. I learn a lot from these small snippets…
@@SSL0707Star listeing to all the takes of a particular part fo the song MJ did , so they can pick the best performance to have on the final recordng .
@@SSL0707Star @DOGOID explained it all 🤩. I may add that not every artist does that, as time in the studio is really expensive. It’s a whole lot of perfectionism Michael Jackson always strived for!
He’s checking the song for the best “go baby” that he recorded 100 times to pick the best take. “Which one was that? 12?” Perfection. That’s how it works.
I love MJ but Ray Charles would get shit done in one or two takes, a 100 takes ain't perfection, it's I have lots of money to spend in a studio and I'm going to spend it by saying "go with it" a 100 times 😂 the first take was fine.
I knew BS personally very well. I worked with all those guys first at Westlake studios, then at Larrabee studios and finally at Sony Music Studios in NYC.
@@louiscalabrese9945 Sadly Jackson burnt bridges with Swedien when he failed to pay him for his work on Invincible. Swedien subsequently said in an interview he'd never work with him again. Jackson obviously never made another album after that anyway.
@@Miloo-qj7sc fuck no! Michael was a perfectionist! If it was anything less than stellar he would keep going over it until it was absolutely flawless! These “artists “ now don’t put in the time to make anything as good as it could have potential to be.
@@thepalatrproevery artist serves their purpose some take long to make songs some dont regardless the ones that make an impact are the ones that are simply authentic and passionate about their craft
@@MichaelJoseph-vb5ml yeah he didn’t live in the real world. He was naive just like the children. He had no childhood and he didn’t develop as a normal adult.
@@josephburney2283 he had to learn the hard way that people will turn on you for reasons beyond your own control. The only thing you can sometimes control, is not to put yourself in that scenario in the first place. He almost did something else stupid once. Thankfully Lisa Marie put her correct perspective onto it He was going to visit England to meet Venables and Thomson. The boys that killed Bulger. He didn't believe children would kill children that way and wanted to ask them questions around the incident. However, Lisa Marie said visiting them would be like rewarding them for killing James Bulger. If anything, go and visit the mother and family of James and send condolences is what Lisa Marie recommended. For once he took her advice. But never sent the Bulger family any letters or condolences.
He only appreciated being around them because he experienced, through their company, what he didn’t have the chance to experience himself as a child. They also wouldn’t judge him like adults would. Children are pure and they see the world in a much simpler way than we do. MJ was set up and it is truly heartbreaking.
This insane level of perfectionism transcended past Michael's vocal takes. It affected every area of his life. In the studio & I'm doing no more than 3-5 choices because it's very exhausting & time consuming. I guess that's one of the reasons Mike didn't put out more albums
*The insane levels of perfectionism is exactly what separates the true professional frorm the rest of the rank amateur's. The true professional is willing to go the extra mile of everything. Quality without compromise is a way of life.*
I always wondered if he got tired of his own songs especially after having to sing them for years straight on tour. I kinda get now why he always switched up his style each album. He probly got tired of disco funk rnb after off the sall and thriller and victory and victory tour
@@erenyeeagah204 sure he does, like any human, but the only difference is the level of professionalism, so he always kept the same level. Sadly these days but even then, some singers just started to give up after years of singing the same songs, so they didn't even tried anymore.
Comping each little vocal part piece by piece, to assemble the perfect edit of all those takes. Painstakingly tedious process. He said "take 43." I wonder how many there were.
Apparently there were a total of 50 takes, because that was the maximum amount of tapes they could record. It was very expensive to record all 50 tho, so they would often say to michael that the maximum was 10 to spend less money
I met him as a fan in the 90' s ( Larrabee in 1991, plus Westlake and Record One, all in L.A. then the Hit Factory in NY) . He was from another planet. End of the story. Very kind to us fans, very shy, zero attitude.
@@AnonymousDeveloper1 We actually could not really in the context but we had an incredible long stare at each other, as a mutual game. We each completely forgot his stardom within that moment.
I’m pretty sure lesser vocalists than MJ had to grind through much more comprehensive comping than this. He was a perfectionist for sure, but he was also a great singer to boot, meaning he didn’t have to do thousands of takes like some actually did back in the day. The multitrack tapes for Def Leppard’s Pyromania album famously were translucent by the time the lead vocals had been finished. For example.
Mj demo ( he used real orchestra) its happen when budget has no limit. he made vocal harmony in one take. Billie jean was mixed 92 time for take the second version. its happen when u are perfectionist
The absolute discipline and drive for perfection is why he was the greatest of all time. This kind of attention to detail would drive the average person mad😂
As a recording artist and a virgo (like mike) lol i feel so much better knowin that even the greats did so many takes until it felt perfected. I always thought these artist went in with one take. I used to feel bad for having to redo takes. I see now that its all apart of the process. We miss u mj 🫶🏾
That's how you get prefection (combining the best parts together) but in other times you want just one take, or maybe that one take has emotions and feels that are unique. Generally you go for more takes, but it can happen you just "kill in it" with one take.
Thanks a million for sharing this video with us. Its so priceless to watch Michael in the studio at work.The whole album is a mastrrpiece including this song. But the thing I like the most in this video is to see Michael drinking tea (or coffee) while working. This is so adorable to see him like this with a cup of tea, so adorable and so bittersweet.... Miss and love him a lot.
@@shreeharibhavik i watched it once more and now im sure that it s a cup of tea, not coffee, coz there is a string with a paper label hanging down on the side of the cup, and a spoon in the cup to hold a tea bag 🙂. Its interesting that some people prefer to take a tea bag and a spoon out of their cup before drinking tea, and some leave a tea bag and a spoon in their cup and drink their tea with the tea bag and spoon in the cup... I think the fact that Michael was drinking such simple tea with a tea bag in his cup shows that in real life he was a very humble down- to- earth man, so much immersed in creating his music... i mean, he could have a chef in the studio to make him the best and the most delicious tea possible, and he was sipping very simple tea brewed with a tea bag....
@@HGS434 Why are you saying that this video was stolen? Are you sure? Its no good to steal videos, and im really sorry if its the case here and im really sorry if it hurts somebody s feelings or violates somebody s privacy... but you know, i guess a person who did it, did not have any bad intentions towards MJ...this person just wanted everybody to know what an awsome, sweet and fantastic guy Michael was... Ive been Michaels fan since 1993, back then I used to play Dangerous album almost 24/7 in my room, and my parents used to say that MJ became our family member. Losing him in 2009 was like losing a family member... I didnt watch this video just for fun or out of mere curiosity, i watched it because Michael has always been my inspiration , i love him dearly and i appreciate him a lot for all the moments of joy, happiness and inspiration he has given to me through his music. And there are millions of people like me all over the world who love him and just wanna get an idea what kind of person he was in real life, coz for many people like me he is much more than just a singer, he is the man who changed my life... I wish people who own similar videos with Michael could share them with MJs fans and the rest of the world, because these videos show that Michael was such a sweet, kind and real man with a great sense of humour. The more people will see such videos the less they will believe in various insane rumours and allegations regarding Michael.
@@user-vb7gg2fq1e The videos are on Brad Sundberg's personal laptop, which was stolen from him. That's why they have the watermark In the Studio with MJ. Brad Sundberg made these videos available to fans all over the world in seminars and shared private stories that he experienced with Michael. There were also demo songs on this laptop that have now been posted online. It's cheeky that people use these videos to enrich themselves.
This guy was obsessed with crafting perfection. A maniac in the studio. In a way it's a shame that his discography is so small, but in another way it's probably a blessing because he worked so hard on every single song, it took him a long time to be ready to put it out into the world.
Vi um vídeo em que Michael Jackson falava, mostrava e replicava o som em tudo o que se movia: o andar, o tocar no chão, uma folha de uma árvore que sai e a que fica, do pó, do respirar, etc. O amar, viver, revolucionar e criar música. Ele respirava música, seu corpo é a própria dança. Até me emociono em lembrar desse talentoso raro. Preciosidade. Criação do Divino.
@@rubbersoul420 different genres, different production methods. grunge was supposed to be lo-fi and raw. michael's approach was to go with something ultra slick and refined.
@@rubbersoul420 it didn’t outsell dangerous, it just knocked it out of the #1 spot on January 11th 1992. Dangerous then took the #5 spot. By next week Nevermind was #4 and Dangerous was #2 right behind Garth Brooks Ropin the wind. Nevermind is good with over 30 million copies sold, but worldwide Dangerous beats it by a bit.
I feel like Bruce Swedien was a godfather for Michael in the studio. Michael loved Bruce's talent so much and it showed. I read Bruce's interview the other day and he said Michael never used autotune/pitch correction. Other engineer/mixer, Dave Way said Michael didn't allow anyone to remove his clapping hands sound, his breath, every shit you hear through his mouth. He knew what he's doing 😂
Omg coming across videos like this makes me feel 11 years old again 😅 I was so in love with Michael in middle school and wanted to be a singer. All I did was try to find rare videos like this and just study him lol you learn so much watching the greats.
I love you Michael. Also Bruce, what a great guy! RIP to both of them! Thank you for the work of art you gifted humanity. You will both be remembered and studied for thousands of years as some of the greeatest to ever live!
❤Michael Jackson the best all time Forever ❤King of Music ❤King of Pop ❤️ King of Rock❤️ King of Humanitarian ❤ King of Gentleman 👏 King of Big Humanitarian👏King of aktor❤️King of singer❤️King of dancer❤️ King of songwriter❤️The best pure soul. He has the purest, greatest magic energy in the world❤ It has the energy of the truest, strongest, purest spiritual Magic❤ The best person in the world who has done a lot for people here. Even for those who hurt him brutally❤🪽🙏 thank you very much for everything. thank you very much for your big heart, your wonderful energy, your help to those who owe their lives to you and to whose lives you bring miracles❤🙏🪽 We love you all Forever ❤️ We miss you all forever ❤️
Knew that he recorded Jam in the summer of 1991. Not 1990 like some clowns claim. TR didn't work with him during 1990, as he was on the East Coast working on other 1990 and 1991 records (ie Heavy D) He left for LA in January/Feb 1991 to get started on Dangerous and left the project in the fall. I think he went back to Virginia Beach, then got to working Bobby and Whitney next (finished March 1992)
Imagine being in that studio next to MJ? Michael was definitely the biggest name in music, maybe the most famous person in the world. He was on top of the world and being able to work with 1 on 1 is crazy.
Aí que tudoooooo gente é lindo demais ver o amor e dedicação que o Michael tinha pra criar uma música detalhista como ele só isso é que era música que saudades que fofura que talento que perfeição que criatividade igual não existe aí como eu amo você Michael
Thats in studio One at Larrabee North in Studio City, CA. That place was my home first when Giorgio Moroder owned it in 1987. Then years later when I worked at Larrabee studios. I knew Bruce Swedien very well. Was once at his home on his ranch miles north on the 101 freeway. My sense of humor was a little too much for old Bruce,...LOL.
