Who directed the music video for Michael Jackson's "Bad"?
What's the best way to prove to a criminal that you're not scared of them and despite the fact you went to a private school you're still bad? That's right, get together with a group of your best buds and start dancing like hell.
That's more or less the premise of the iconic music video for one of the most iconic songs of all time, "Bad" from Michael Jackson. Released in 1987, hitting number one, and ultimately going platinum (and currently streamed more than ~330 million times on Spotify), this song deserved a music video that rose to the challenge – and boy did it. This is some of MJ's finest acting.
But that doesn't happen by magic — it took a great director to put it all together. Who directed the music video for "Bad"?
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Correct Answer: Martin Scorsese
The answer is: Martin Scorsese. Yeah, music videos were a bigger deal in the '80s. Case in point, MJ's "Bad" premiered as part of a primetime special on CBS, and was actually a full-on 18-minute short film directed by the legendary Martin Scorsese. It also featured a young and mostly unknown Wesley Snipes. The iconic music video features a slightly different version of the song, which has still never been commercially released.Source
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