{"id":9986,"date":"2010-02-28T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/28\/michael-jackson-speed-demon-this-was-quite-a\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:53:49","slug":"michael-jackson-speed-demon-this-was-quite-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/28\/michael-jackson-speed-demon-this-was-quite-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SP410Sv-b2E\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson &#8211; <i>Speed Demon<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was quite a find, as I thought that I had seen all of Michael Jackson&rsquo;s videos, especially those from the &lsquo;80s.  The poster (<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/user\/stanciumadalin\" target=\"_blank\">stanciumadalin<\/a>) graciously supplied a very informative description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Speed Demon<\/i> is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson from his seventh studio album, entitled <i>Bad<\/i>. The song was written by Jackson and produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. <i>Speed Demon<\/i> is a pop song [whose] lyrics pertain to driving fast. The song was released on October 12, 1989, as a promotional single for both the album and the 1988 film <i>Moonwalker<\/i>. The song received mixed reviews from contemporary critics.  <i>Speed Demon<\/i> was originally supposed to be released as a single, but was subsequently cancelled. <i>Speed Demon<\/i> was the tenth, and last, single to be released from <i>Bad<\/i>. The song achieved minor commercial success, having only received minor airplay in the United States. Despite being featured on <i>Bad<\/i>, the song was not performed during either leg of the albums world tour.  To date a music video for <i>Speed Demon<\/i> has not been released, nor has it been confirmed that Jackson had ever filmed one. As part promotion for <i>Speed Demon<\/i> Jackson filmed a promotional video for the song, which appeared in Jackson&rsquo;s 1988 film, entitled <i>Moonwalker<\/i>. The video was directed by Will Vinton. In the video, Jackson, in an attempt to avoid overzealous fans (even The Noid), disguises himself as a rabbit named Spike, but ends up taunting the fans into chasing him. During the chase, he morphs into other celebrities, including Sylvester Stallone, Tina Turner and Pee-Wee Herman. After finally losing the fans, he removes the costume, which comes to life and challenges him to a dance-off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jackson &#8211; Speed Demon This was quite a find, as I thought that I had seen all of Michael Jackson&rsquo;s videos, especially those from the &lsquo;80s. The poster (stanciumadalin) graciously supplied a very informative description: Speed Demon is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson from his seventh studio album, entitled Bad. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/28\/michael-jackson-speed-demon-this-was-quite-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9987,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions\/9987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}