I'm Not Going To Spend My Life Being A Color

After two very successful albums with producer Quincy Jones, "Thriller" and "Bad," Michael Jackson went with Teddy Riley as the main producer for his 1991 release "Dangerous."

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Change for Jackson, by this point, was becoming old hat. At the same time, some say he was becoming increasingly dangerous to society.

No longer bearing any resemblence to the child performer that captivated a nation with the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson's epistle, Black Or White, attempts to set the record straight.

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Take A Look At Yourself And Make The Change

Almost every song on Michael Jackson's 1987 album "Bad" received considerable radio play, including Man In The Mirror.

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"Bad" was hailed as a great album but paled (no pun intended, or is it?) in comparison to its predecessor, "Thriller".

Jackson did his best to nuture the transformative theme he began with the Thriller video as he donned a black leather jacket complete with excessive buckles and zippers. The "Bad" image he tried to portray, however, was a little hard to swallow. Apparently very few people actually felt threatened by Michael Jackson.

Of course, that would all soon change as allegations of inappropriate relationships between the singer and child guests of his Neverland Ranch would begin to surface.

Man In The Mirror continues to hint at Jackson's obsession with his looks and his quest to alter them. Jackson's skin is many shades lighter on the "Bad" album cover than it was on "Thriller" and his nose is a couple of sizes smaller.

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You See A Sight That Almost Stops Your Heart

The video for Michael Jackson's Thriller was a 14 minute short film.

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Thriller was the title track from Jackson's 1982 album with 45 million worldwide sales, seven Top-Ten U.S. singles and eight Grammy awards. Thriller is also the best-selling album of all time.

The video is a micro horror flick in which Jackson, clad in a zipper-adorned red leather jacket, transforms into a werewolf and chases, with an accompanying horde of decaying zombies, his screaming date through a classic 50s horror film setting.

In the end it is revealed that Michael and his date were instead just watching a horror movie in a theatre which she transposed herself and Michael into.

Upon leaving the theatre, Jackson turns around to reveal his greenish-yellow eyes and fangs, leaving us to wonder, was it really just a dream?

Vincent Price, the Master Of The Macabre, provides a spooky narrative for the song.

Proving that reality is stranger than fiction, Jackson himself has transformed over the years. No longer the dark-skinned child that sang with the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson of today is at least as scary as the werewolf of the Thriller video.

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The Kid Is Not My Son

Sixteen years before the birth of his first child, Prince Michael I, Michael Jackson released Billie Jean, a song in which the singer claims he is not the father of a child at the center of a paternity suit.

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Ironically, in 1985, three years after the release of the record, Jackson was involved in a paternity suit brought against him by Lavon Muhammad who claimed to be his wife and the mother of his children.

The "King Of Pop" now has four children, Prince Michael I, Paris, Prince Michael II and an infant known to the world only as "Blanket." When the children are in public, Jackson has them wear masks to hide their identities "for their protection." Except for Blanket, whom Michael hides beneath a blanket and dangles over hotel balconies.

Billie Jean was released on Jackson's "Thriller" album. The song's video gave us the first glimpse of Jackson's trademark "Moonwalk" and the "white glove."

The Billie Jean video was also the first video by a black artist played on MTV. This was, of course, before Jackson became the pale-faced ghoul we see today.

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Now It's Much Too Late For Me To Take A Second Look

From Gary, Indiana, and managed by their father Joe, came the singing and dancing quintet of Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael -- The Jackson 5.

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I Want You Back was their hit song from the 1969 album, "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5."

The troupe's early success was an industry phenomenon with 10-year-old Michael capturing the hearts of the America.

Within a year, however, Michael and Jermaine would leave the band to pursue solo careers, as would others of the Jackson family.

Now some 33 years later, Michael has dubbed himself the "King Of Pop" and his successes and foibles have been well documented.

In retrospect, is Michael singing about a losing a girl or the tip of his nose?

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