The following is taken from the special edition of Thriller, where Quincy Jones talks in the album's extra tracks. How Human Nature Got Included in the Thriller Album: Jackson replied with "People often think the lyrics have some special personal significance.which often isn't 's important to reach people, to move them.sometimes one can do this with the mosaic of the music melody arrangement and lyrics.sometimes it is the intellectual context of the lyrics".Īdditionally, both Jackson and "Q" (how Jackson refers to Quincy Jones in the book) believed that "Human Nature" had the "prettiest melody that they had heard by far". It is also mentioned that people asked him frequently about the real meaning of the lyrics. While talking about Thriller in his 1988 autobiography Moonwalk, Jackson mentions that "Human Nature" is "music with wings". In fact, even today, everyone might very well have a different interpretation of the song. "Human Nature" is supposedly one of Michael Jackson's songs that never quite had a clear-cut meaning.
John Bettis, on the other hand provided the lyrics for "Human Nature"- and was the same dude who came up with the lyrics for The Carpenters' "Top of the World" (among others), and later on after "Human Nature", came up with the words for Madonna's "Crazy For You", Whitney Houston's "One Moment In Time", and Christopher Cross' "Swept Away".īoth were tapped by Quincy Jones to help out on the Thriller project in 1982, particularly for the song "Human Nature" Supposedly, the 1982 Toto hit "Rosanna" was written about him and his "it's-rather-complicated" then-relationship with Patricia Arquette. Later on, he'd compose "Lea" which became a Toto hit in 1985. Steve Porcaro of Toto- (one of the Porcaro brothers of Toto, anyway) is the band's resident keyboardist, and one of it's composers. Did you know though, that the song was written by a dude from Toto, and lyrics from the same guy that would later write Madonna's hit song "Crazy For You"? Sorry for being such a wise-ass, it's just that I actually do know my Michael Jackson (and Toto).We all know "Human Nature" as one of the most beautiful songs on the Thriller album of 1982- at least, that's what I think. It was later covered by none other than Miles Davis on his "You're Under Arrest" album. That's the story of how "Human Nature" ended up on "Thriller". Quincy immediately loved the melody of "Human Nature", which was completely without lyrics and consisted only of a simple rhythm track, the CS-80 synth riff and Porcaro's own voice humming the melody. Paich, believing the tape to be blank, had recorded one of his songs on the same tape. But when he thought one of the Paich tapes had stopped running, another song suddenly came on, and it was Steve Porcaro's "Human Nature".
Quincy liked what he heard, but didn't really see the songs fitting in on that particular album. There is no FM technology used at all on "Thriller".įunny story about the song "Human Nature": David Paich (also of Toto) was in the spring of 1982 asked by Quincy Jones to write a few tunes for the new Michael Jackson album. In fact, the Jupiter-8 is all over "Thriller", as is the Synclavier. Well, "Human Nature" was Steve Porcaro's (of Toto (my favourite band)) tune, so I know the synths HE used on that tune were his own CS-80, a Synclavier and a Jupiter-8.
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