Don't Be Messin' 'Round
| "Don't Be Messin' 'Round" | ||||||||||
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| Single by Michael Jackson | ||||||||||
| from the album Bad 25 | ||||||||||
| A-side | "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" | |||||||||
| Released | June 5, 2012 | |||||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1986 Jackson's Hayvenhurst Studio California Westlake Recording Studios |
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| Genre | Funk, pop, R&B, jazz | |||||||||
| Length | 4:20 | |||||||||
| Label | Epic, Legacy | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Michael Jackson | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Michael Jackson | |||||||||
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"Don't Be Messin' 'Round" is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The song was originally recorded in 1986 during initial recording sessions for Jackson's seventh studio album, Bad, but was never finished and was left off the album. Jackson reportedly revisited the track for his eighth and ninth studio albums, but it was again abandoned from both. In May 2012, it was announced that Jackson's original 1986 demo for "Don't Be Messin' 'Round" was to be included on a re-release of the original first single from Bad, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You". This release marked the beginning of the promotional campaign for Bad 25, a twenty-fifth anniversary re-release of the Bad album.
Michael Jackson wrote "Don't Be Messin' 'Round" at some point during recording sessions for his sixth studio album, Thriller. However, due to an overflow of new material at the time, Jackson pushed the song aside for his next album. Years later, in 1986, Jackson revisited the track with longtime collaborators Matt Forger and Bill Bottrell at the Laboratory, the nickname for Jackson's renovated Hayvenhurst recording studio. According to Forger, the original demo for "Don't Be Messin' 'Round" was nearly eight minutes long, leading to Jackson "brutally" cutting it down to its current 4:20 length. Jackson continued to work on the track throughout 1986; however, once album producer Quincy Jones began working with Jackson, the track was abandoned. Jackson reportedly revisited the song during sessions for both his Dangerous and HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, albums, as well as another revisit in early 2009, but passed on it numerous times.
In early April 2012, unauthorized pre-sales for the "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" CD single began online, prematurely leaking news of the upcoming release of "Don't Be Messin' 'Round." Later in May 2012, the Estate of Michael Jackson issued a statement officially announcing the song's release. They deemed that the song was untouched, being released the way it was left largely after the controversy over 2010's Michael album.
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