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Old 22-07-2003, 14:25
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I am a Michael Jackson fan, however i have been confused by this song since the day i first heard it.
I have asked numerous people and no-one I have evr asked can explain it either.

So, these are the lyrics that are distressing me:

...................Billy Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who thinks that I am the one
But Billy Jean is not my son.......................


OK, what i want to know is " Who is Billy Jean"?????

Is Billy Jean the person he's referring to as his girlfriend?

OR

The name of the child the girl is claimimg to be his?

OR

The name of both of the above???

I am so confused, and feel the time has come where i have got to find out!!!
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Old 22-07-2003, 14:27
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Hello Carene! Try a search on the Internet!
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Old 22-07-2003, 14:45
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Havn't got time.

And plus, all the peeps at DS have lots of knowledge anyway
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Old 22-07-2003, 14:49
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I think there the same person - Sounds like Michael.

Have you got the Greatest Hits that xlnt!
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Old 22-07-2003, 14:49
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Originally posted by Carene


So, these are the lyrics that are distressing me:

...................Billy Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who thinks that I am the one
But Billy Jean is not my son.......................


OK, what i want to know is " Who is Billy Jean"?????

Is Billy Jean the person he's referring to as his girlfriend?

OR

The name of the child the girl is claimimg to be his?

OR

The name of both of the above???

I am so confused, and feel the time has come where i have got to find out!!!
The lyrics are:

"Billy Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the kid is not my son"

Therefore, Billie Jean is a girl (ex-girlfriend in the "song story" maybe) who says that she's had a child to Michael Jackson but he is saying it's not his.

I think that's it anyway.

What a song though eh?
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Old 22-07-2003, 15:34
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Carene i wasn't born when this song came out but i know for sure that the lyrics are

But the kid is not my son..........not.........but billy jeans is not my son lol
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Old 22-07-2003, 23:13
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I don't know. I have thought that Billie Jean referred to the popular tennis player.
Great song though, much better than most of todays music.
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Old 23-07-2003, 00:45
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Originally posted by Carene
I am a Michael Jackson fan, however i have been confused by this song since the day i first heard it.
I have asked numerous people and no-one I have evr asked can explain it either.

So, these are the lyrics that are distressing me:

...................Billy Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who thinks that I am the one
But Billy Jean is not my son.......................


OK, what i want to know is " Who is Billy Jean"?????

Is Billy Jean the person he's referring to as his girlfriend?

OR

The name of the child the girl is claimimg to be his?

OR

The name of both of the above???

I am so confused, and feel the time has come where i have got to find out!!!
aye but who cares tho ? it's still great, even if it doesn't make any sense (but it does make sense after it was explained by richdgrant)

yep - a relic from the days wacko jacko was good
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Old 23-07-2003, 11:11
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Thanks richdgrant and lala

Makes much more sense to me now that i have established who is who, that MJ actually says "the kid", and who Billie jean is.

Yes, a great MJ song from his early stuff.
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Old 23-07-2003, 13:12
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Yes, a great MJ song from his early stuff.
Great yes, but certainly not early. He did tons of stuff before it. Infact he's probably done more before than after Billie Jean.
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Old 23-07-2003, 13:50
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Even in the holiday party places Billie Jean is still played. I was in Kavos this years and one of my friends was in Ibiza and in both places Michael Jackson's music was being played in-between all the new stuff. Can't remember hearing any other older music played.

Michael Jackson is brilliant. Got all his albums (from the early Jackson 5 to the last album he did - Invincible).

I'm into loads of different types of music: r&b, pop, dance, rock (such as Led Zeppelin and also Pink Floyd (not sure which category they'd come under)) but Michael Jackson's music is by far my favourite. The amount of times I've listened to Smooth Criminal is unbelievable.
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Old 23-07-2003, 19:05
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Jackson is truly one of the greatest artists ever. even at 12, i realise that. Billie Jean, Beat It, Thriller and Smooth Criminal are in my favourite songs ever.
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Old 23-07-2003, 20:44
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Bushwacka (of Layo and Bushwacka) did a good remix of Billie Jean last year. It was played on the Essential Mix by Pete Tong in Ibiza as I recall.

When I saw the video for the first time it was cool. With the tiles lighting up under his feet when he walked. No matter how weird the guy has become there was a long period when he ruled the pop world. When Bad was given its world premiere on Channel 4 everyone went on about it at school. Not as good a video as the John Landis directed promo for Thriller though.
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Old 24-07-2003, 08:34
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Don't know about anybody else but I'd really like to see Jacko do a dance routine with a woman.

I thought we were going to get this in the Rock My World video when he actually gets together with the woman in that but all dancing is seperate. I really wish he would, a bit like the Prince "Kiss" video when he does a routine with a woman. Fantastic!
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Old 24-07-2003, 10:00
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its about his famale fans who claimed or wanted to have his children
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Old 24-07-2003, 10:41
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It's about his female fans who claimed or wanted to have his children
Yeah, i also got that impression, and realised what he meant.
What I was confused about was WHO was Billie Jean - the girlfriend or the baby.

I now know thanks to richdgrant and Lala. Thanks everyone else for the input too.
Yes, the good old times when Jacko ruled the pop world!!!
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Old 24-07-2003, 18:09
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DID YA ALSO KNOW THAT HIS SONG "BEN" WAS ABOUT A PET RAT
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Old 25-07-2003, 10:32
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Yep, i did also know that Ben was about MJ's pet rat.
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Old 25-07-2003, 11:06
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Originally posted by MartinR
Bushwacka (of Layo and Bushwacka) did a good remix of Billie Jean last year. It was played on the Essential Mix by Pete Tong in Ibiza as I recall.
A great way to listen to Billy Jean again is to find the bootleg mix done by 2 Many DJs, in which they use it as the backing track to Eminem's The Real Slim Shady. It's almost as astonishing as their merging of Dreadlock Holiday and Independent Woman.

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Old 25-07-2003, 11:24
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Don't know about anybody else but I'd really like to see Jacko do a dance routine with a woman.

Didnt he do a routine with Janet Jackson - on a space station set ?

And I recall him writhing around with Naiomi Cambell on another video, set in a dry Med / Mexican landscape - but then its so long ago
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Old 25-07-2003, 11:33
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Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. I'm referring to a dance routine where they could be considered to to be dancing as a pair say like Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers (although in a modern style obviously).

Certainly I don't consider the two suggestions anywhere near what I'm looking for. Needs to be a lot more hands on closer stuff and both partners contributing equally (will if anyone can contribute equally on a level with Jacko at his best that is!).
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Old 26-07-2003, 00:03
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Needs to be a lot more hands on closer stuff and both partners contributing equally

Im sure that whats gone on behind closed doors at the Jackson residence is kept from our eyes by the unseen hands that keep his profile bouyant in the mainstream of the music/dance profession .

*grabs crotch one last time and leaves, pulling plastic trilby forward and down in the last few frames, right foot poised over an backlit excuse for a paving slab*
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