The following is taken from MJ's autobiography "A Space Walk":
We almost changed the name "billie king" to "Not my lover". My original name of this song was "billie king", but Q objected. He thinks that when people hear this name, they will immediately think of tennis player Billie King.
Many people have asked this song, and my answer is simple, because once a girl said I was the father of her child, and I wanted to show my innocence: "This child is not my son."
There has never been a real billie king (except when people used this song as their name). The girls in the song represent many people, and they have been pestering us, which makes us very upset. This has happened many times, and so has my brother.
I used to wonder, too I really don't understand why some girls know it's wrong and say that their children belong to others. I can't imagine that I would cheat like that without blushing.
Up to now, many girls still come to my door and talk nonsense about strange things, such as "I am Michael's wife" or "I forgot to bring the key to our room."
I remember a girl who made us crazy. I think there has always been an illusion in her mind that she belongs to me. Another girl once claimed that I slept with her, and she threatened us with it; When I lived in Haven Hess' house.
There have been several serious injuries in front of the gate, and those people will really become very dangerous; Others shouted at us with megaphones, saying that Jesus sent them to talk to me, or that God ordered them to come, and so on.
Jackson originally named the song Billy Jean, but it was opposed because there was a tennis player with the same name, billie king. Jackson almost replaced Billie Jean with Not My Lover (not my lover).
The detailed ideas of Jackson and producer Quincy Jones were carefully thought out and decided. Many of them are expressed in the recording process, and many songs come from the recording conference. This involves the bass player recording audio tracks with all his basses before deciding which one to use. This song has been mixed for 9 1 times. ?
When recording, Jackson used a six-foot (about 183 cm) long hard paper roll as a microphone to sing this song, and recorded the required tracks of this song after singing once. Jones also brought jazz saxophone musician tom scott to play Lyricon (a wind instrument synthesizer), which is a rare instrument. Its sour trumpet-like sound skillfully weaves the whole piece.
Bassist Louis Johnson tried all kinds of guitars he owned, until Jackson decided to use Yamaha guitar as an instrument, which can play the ideal heavy and buzzing music. "At the same time, Sveton is also looking for the perfect beat through craft projects.
He hired a carpenter to build a special drum stand and ordered a special bass drum to design an isolated drum to capture the trap and the correct image on the drum stand.
However, the main part of this trait was almost deleted in the final clip. Jones hates Billie Jane's bass tune and doesn't want this song to appear on the album Thriller. But Jackson insisted on keeping it.
1983 65438+1On October 2nd, Billie Jean released the single EP in the name of the second wave of the album Thriller.