"Dirty Diana"
April 18,1988 - 5th single from Bad
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Written by Michael Jackson. Produced by Quincy Jones & Michael Jackson
The song was released by Epic Records on April 18, 1988, as the fifth single from the album Bad. It presents a harder rock sound similar to "Beat It" from Thriller and a guitar solo by Steve Stevens (Billy Idol's guitarist). "Dirty Diana" was written and co-produced by Michael with Quincy Jones.
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The song's lyrics pertain to groupies. Initial reports at the time suggested the song was a poke at his close friend Diana Ross. However, it was later denied. In fact, Ross started using the song as an overture at her concerts shortly before appearing on stage. In an interview from the special edition of Bad, Jones later confirmed that the song's lyrics were about groupies.
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“I love ‘Dirty Diana’. That’s one of my favorites, because it’s a life story of a groupie – I hate to say the word ‘groupie’, but that’s what it is. And it’s something that I’ve experienced and a lot of people who grow up on the road – like me. I don’t remember not performing.” - MJ

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"Dirty Diana", similar to Bad's previous singles, charted within the top 20 and top 10 worldwide though receiving mixed reviews from critics. It was a commercial success worldwide in 1988, charting at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 7/2/88 after climbing the chart for 9 weeks. It spent a total of 14 weeks on the Hot 100. The song also charted within the top ten in multiple countries, including the Uk, France, Italy, and New Zealand.
In 2009, after Michael's death, the song re-entered charts, mainly due to digital download sales. The song charted at No. 18 on the French Digital Singles Chart on 7/4/09. On 7/12/09, the song peaked at #13 on the Swiss Singles Chart. "Dirty Diana" re-entered the UK charts on 7/4/09, at #50 and the following week peaked at #26
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“Michael said, ‘We’re going to start some new songs.’ I never knew when we were going to do a song what the song was for, but the first song I started on with Michael was ‘Dirty Diana’” - engineer Matt Forger

John Tatlock of The Quietus regards the song as an attempt to recreate "the pop-rock alchemy of 'Beat It". In his Bad review, Los Angeles Times' Richard Cromelin describes "Dirty Diana" as a hard rock song, writing, "'Dirty Diana' is trying to be this year's 'Beat It' — a hard-rock song about a tenacious groupie that's sent into orbit by a Steve Stevens guitar solo." Jon Pareles, a writer for The New York Times, viewed "Dirty Diana" as a song about a "groupie who latches onto the narrator, mixes the sexual fears of 'Billie Jean' with the hard-rock lead guitar of 'Beat It'." In his Bad review, Thom Duffy, music critic for the Orlando Sentinel, wrote that "Dirty Diana, a tale of a maliciously seductive fan, finds Jackson doing credible heavy-metal rock wailing," which, the critic said, was "accompanied by a solo from Steve Stevens, the guitarist from Billy Idol's band." Jonathan Takiff of The Philadelphia Inquirer also noted elements of heavy metal in "Dirty Diana", writing, "Plus, to tap the rock crowd (in the style of the 'Thriller' crossover smash 'Beat It' with Eddie Van Halen), Michael cut a heavy metal-tinged 'Dirty Diana' featuring Billy Idol's guitar sizzler Stevie Stevens."
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt that "Dirty Diana" and "Man in the Mirror" were "showcasing Jackson at his worst" on Bad. Music critic Robert Christgau viewed "Dirty Diana" as "misogynistic as any piece of metal suck-my-cock."Jon Pareles described "Dirty Diana" as 'reducing' Jackson to a "terrified whimper," while John Tatlock considered "Dirty Diana" as a "confused lumbering slog of a song," thinking that "Jackson was never convincing in this kind of role, a boy-child trying to write a song about the kind of woman he never meets in the kind of places he's certainly never been to." Davitt Sigerson of Rolling Stone gave the song a more positive review; though calling it a "filler," she still commented that the song, along with "Speed Demon," is what makes Bad "richer, sexier, better than Thriller's forgettables." Sigerson noted that "Dirty Diana" was a "substantial recording" because of its "insubstantial melody." Jennifer Clay of Yahoo! Music commented that while Jackson's edgier image was a "little hard to swallow," the image, musically, worked on the songs "Bad", "Man in the Mirror", and "Dirty Diana", but was not "to the degree of Thriller."
A music video for "Dirty Diana" was filmed in front of a live audience and released in 1988. The five-minute short film was directed by Joe Pytka. It was filmed in March of 1988 in Long Beach, California. The woman who appears in the video is model Lisa Dean, chosen over hundreds of girls who auditioned for the role. She had previously modeled in a Levi's 501 commercial. She earned a modest $300 a day for the short film. It won the "Number-One Video in the World" at the 1st World Music Awards held on 4/14/89. It's featured on the DVD albums Number Ones, Michael Jackson's Vision, and the Target version DVD of Bad 25
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A second seven-minute long accompanying video of a live performance was filmed in early 1988 in front of a live audience during Jackson's show in Madison Square Garden (Steve Stevens playing guitar). The full video starts with the screen saying "Pepsi Presents Michael Jackson Tour 1988" in front of a white background for forty seconds. During the performance he is dressed in a white button down shirt, black pants and has metal and leather belts on his pants while singing and dancing.
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"Dirty Diana" was performed during Jackson's Bad World Tour concerts from 1987 to 1989, but only in the second leg, as the 10th song in the setlist.
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“I wrote a song called ‘Dirty Diana’. It was not about Lady Diana. It was about certain kinds of girls that hang around concerts or clubs, you know, they call them groupies. I’ve lived with that all my life. These girls…they do everything with the band, everything you could imagine. So I wrote a song called ‘Dirty Diana’. But I took it out of the [Wembley] show in honor of her royal highness. She took me away and she said, ‘Are you going to do Dirty Diana?‘ So, I said, ‘No, I took it out of the show because of you.‘ She said, ‘No! I want you to do it…do it…do the song.” - MJ

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This Is It concert series choreographer, Kenny Ortega, stated in an interview that "Dirty Diana" was going to be performed by Michael for the concerts. Ortega said that Jackson had planned to rehearse the song before he died. The set up for the song would include an expert pole dancer who would lure Jackson onto a giant steel bed on which she performed acrobatic feats.
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It's been sampled in 27 songs including :

• "Queen of the Night"(1992) by Whitney Houston
• "Monsters You Made"(2020) by Burna Boy feat. Chris Martin
• "Russian Roulette"(2006) by Papoose
• "Dirty Iyanna"(2019) by YoungBoy Never Broke Again

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It's been Covered 14 times including:

• "Groupie Diana"(1989) by Junior Reid
• "Dirty Diana"(2009) by Nocturnal 4U
• "D.D."(2011) by TheWeeknd
• "Dirty Diana"(2013) by Chris Jericho

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