Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

Billie Jean

Michael Jackson Dir. Steve Barron Play Channel
1983 80s pop
#3 on The 100 Greatest Music Videos of the 1980s →

Written by Michael Jackson for Thriller, the lyrics describe a woman claiming the narrator is the father of her newborn son. Directed by Steve Barron, the music video features Jackson on a darkened city street with illuminated sidewalk tiles.

The Story Behind

In early 1983, MTV was a rock channel that rarely played Black artists. Within weeks of one video's premiere, that would change — and so would everyth…

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4:56 duration
1983 released

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