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"HIStory"/"Ghosts" is a double A-side single from Michael Jackson's 1997 remix album ''Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix''. The original version of "HIStory" was released as a track on Jackson's 1995 studio album ''HIStory'', but was never released as a single. "Ghosts" was a brand new recording. "HIStory" was composed by Michael Jackson, James Harris III and Terry Lewis before it was remixed by Tony Moran in 1997. The original version contained many historic audio clips and samples. The remix does not have the audio clips and samples. "Ghosts" was written, composed and produced by Michael Jackson and Teddy Riley in 1997. Commentators made observations about the paranoid lyrics, a common theme in Jackson's work. The double A-side was promoted with a music video for each song. "HIStory" was set in a nightclub, in a futuristic era, and recalled Jackson's filmography. "Ghosts" was a five-minute clip taken from the much longer film of the same name. The song would become a top five hit in the UK and Italy, but did not chart as highly elsewhere. ==HIStory== "HIStory" was originally written and composed by Michael Jackson, James Harris III and Terry Lewis in 1995.〔Jackson, Michael. ''HIStory'' booklet. Sony BMG. p 39〕 It was the thirteenth track on the studio album ''HIStory'', but was not released as a single. The song sampled multiple musical compositions and historical audio quotes, all of which were dispersed throughout the track. Early in the track, one even included quotes from an interview with a young Michael Jackson from 1970. Musical compositions sampled include "Beethoven Lives Upstairs" and "Pictures at an Exhibition". In reissues of the album, the "Pictures at an Exhibition" piece was replaced by a similar improvised orchestra piece, but the original sample was used in Jackson's live performances in the HIStory Tour. Audio quotes sampled were the "Charles Lindbergh Report" by Lowell Thomas, a report on Hank Aaron, "Robert Kennedy Eulogy" by Ted Kennedy, "Farewell to Baseball" by Lou Gehrig, "Greetings to the Children of England" by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, quotes from Muhammad Ali, Thomas Edison, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream".〔Jackson, Michael. ''HIStory'' booklet. Sony BMG. p 50〕 In 1997, Jackson issued the remix album ''Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix''; the second single from the album would be the double A-side "HIStory"/"Ghosts". The "HIStory" portion was a Tony Moran remix of the original 1995 composition. The remix was entitled "Tony Moran's HIStory Lesson" in the album booklet.〔Jackson, Michael. ''Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix'' booklet. Sony BMG. p 12〕 The music video that accompanied the remix opens with the scene of a woman, relaxing on a futuristic sofa, watching the music video through metallic virtual reality goggles. The video is set in a nightclub. Inside the club, televisions, monitors and walls display the history of Jackson's filmography such as "In the Closet", "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough", "Scream", "Black or White", "Jam", "Earth Song", "Man in the Mirror", "Blood on the Dance Floor", "They Don't Care About Us", "Dirty Diana", "Will You Be There", "Stranger in Moscow", "Rock with You", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Smooth Criminal", "Beat It", "Remember the Time", scenes from his short film ''Ghosts'', and live performances from the Bad World Tour and the Dangerous World Tour. Wearing the goggles, the woman is led to believe she is in the nightclub too. The video ends with the woman removing the goggles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HIStory/Ghosts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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