>>14243043>I'm giving you / On count of three>To show your stuff / Or let it be>I'm telling you / Just to watch your mouth>I know your game / What you're aboutHe then establishes the premise of his take on good and evil.
>Well they say the sky's the limit>And to me that's really true>But my friend you have seen nothin'>Just wait 'til I get throughHe alludes to human ambition through a common saying 'The sky's the limit'. With this, he's saying that human ambition has no limits.
He knows this to be true having seen it first hand, through his fathers ambition to create a pop icon, which he has inherited.
>Because I'm bad, I'm bad come on (Really really bad)>You know I'm bad, I'm bad you know it (Really really bad)>You know I'm bad, I'm bad come on, you know (Really really bad)Finally, he links the 2 keys of his philosophy. Ambition and badness.
As was established earlier, MJ's amibtion is as infinite as the sky. Such great ambition corrupts deeply, making him "really really bad".
However, it is not just MJ, who has been corrupted by ambition.
>And the whole world has to answer right now>Just to tell you once again>Who's bad?Now, MJ asks the listener (the whole world) to reflect on themselves. Sure, MJ is bad, but he is just one man in the face of the world, and with so much badness out there, who's really the bad ones?
The world in the 21st century is dominated by ambition. Our societies are founded on the concept of endless growth, shedding aside anything that might get in the way of said growth. In a world of dominated by ambition, can we really say that anyone is truly 'good'?
MJ now flips the script by presenting a hypothetical world where you, the listener, is doing wrong:
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