In the course of working on my Comp Lit paper—“Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ as a Pop Culture Response to Undead McCarthyism”—I was researching MJ’s impressive accomplishments in Music Video and Short Film.

Some of his videos are certainly impressive. My favorite is “You Rock My World“—featuring Marlon Brando and Chris Tucker—followed by “Scream“—which is the most expensive music video ever, by the way, costing between $6-7Mil.

But then there’s this other gem, “Bad.” It was released in 1987 when I was 1 year old, the title track off his third Epic solo album. If you’ve seen “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” in which the younger, darker, Afro-ed Michael is dancing and grinning with a psychadellic disco background, his subsequent efforts to toughen up his image are somewhat understandable.

I should really let “Bad” speak for itself. But what I found out in the course of my research was that Martin Scorsese directed the film. No BS.