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"The Way You Make Me Feel" is a song by Michael Jackson released as the second track from the Bad album. It was released as a single on November 9, 1987, serving as the third single from the album. It is largely considered one of Jackson's best and most known songs he has put out in his career.

Background[]

First sessions began in 1985, when the song as originally under the title of "Hot Fever".[1][2] After Jackson wrote the song, the title was changed to "The Way You Make Me Feel".

Music video[]

The video was released on October 31, 1987 and was directed by Joe Pytka. It features Michael at the night, chasing after a girl played by Tatiana Thumbtzen. One of the female actresses included in the clip is played by La Toya Jackson. For the video, American gangs were used as extras, one of them being the Crips from Los Angeles, California.

Live performances[]

Jackson performed "The Way You Make Me Feel" during the Bad World Tour, the first leg of the Dangerous World Tour and HIStory World Tour. The final performance would take place on June 23, 2009, when rehearsing for the ultimately cancelled This Is It concerts.

Tatiana would reappear in a few of his Bad World Tour concerts for "The Way You Make Me Feel" performances, but was ultimately cut after kissing Jackson onstage in a show in New York. She was then replaced by Sheryl Crow.

30th Annual Grammy Awards[]

One of if not the most iconic performance of "The Way You Make Me Feel" took place during the 30th Annual Grammy Awards in 1988. There, a slow intro made specially for the song would debut.[3]

Audio[]

A studio recording of the intro used in the Grammy awards performance leaked online on January 27, 2023.

  • Grammy Awards Intro - (Loudspeaker listen)

Lyrics[]

[Intro]
Hee-hee
Ooh
G'on, girl!
Aaow!
Hee

[Verse 1]
Hey, pretty baby with the high heels on
You give me fever like I've never, ever known
You're just a product of loveliness
I like the groove of your walk, your talk, your dress

[Pre-Chorus]
I feel your fever from miles around
I'll pick you up in my car and we'll paint the town
Just kiss me, baby, and tell me twice
That you're the one for me

[Chorus]
The way you make me feel
The way you make me feel
You really turn me on
You really turn me on
You knock me off of my feet
You knock me off of my feet
My lonely days are gone
My lonely days are gone
Uh, uh

[Verse 2]
I like this feelin' you're givin' me
Just hold me, baby, and I'm in ecstasy
Oh, I'll be workin' from nine to five
To buy you things to keep you by my side

[Pre-Chorus]
I've never felt so in love before
Just promise, baby, you'll love me forever more
I swear I'm keepin' you satisfied
'Cause you're the one for me

[Chorus]
The way you make me feel
The way you make me feel
You really turn me on
You really turn me on
You knock me off of my feet now, baby
You knock me off of my feet
My lonely days are gone
My lonely days are gone

[Interlude 1]
Acha-ooh!
G'on, girl!
G'on!
Hee-hee
Aaow!
G'on, girl!
Wooh
Wooh

[Pre-Chorus]
I've never felt so in love before
Just promise, baby, you'll love me forever more
I swear I'm keepin' you satisfied
'Cause you're the one for me

[Chorus]
The way you make me feel
The way you make me feel
You really turn me on
You really turn me on
You knock me off of my feet now, baby (Hee!)
You knock me off of my feet
My lonely days are gone (Ah, ah)
(My lonely days are gone)
The way you make me fee-hee!
The way you make me feel
You really turn me on
You really turn me on
You knock me off of my feet now, baby (Hee!)
You knock me off of my feet
My lonely days are gone
My lonely days are gone

[Bridge]
Ain't nobody's business
Ain't nobody's business
The way you make me feel
Ain't nobody's business
Ain't nobody's business
But mine and my baby
You really turn me on
Hee-hee!
You knock me off of my feet
Hee-hee! Ooh!
My lonely days are gone
Give it to me
Give me some time
The way you make me feel
Come on, be my girl
I wanna be with mine
You really turn me on
Ain't nobody's business
You knock me off of my feet
Ain't nobody's business
But mine and my baby
G'on, girl! Aaow!
My lonely days are gone

[Interlude 2]
Hee-hee!
Hoo!
Choo-coo, choo-coo
Choo-coo, choo-coo, choo-coo
G'on, girl!

[Outro]
The way you make me feel (Hee-hee!)
(Hee-hee-hee!)
You really turn me on
You knock me off of my feet
My lonely days are gone
Give it to me
Give me some time
The way you make me feel
Come on, be my girl
I wanna be with mine
You really turn me on
Ain't nobody's business
You knock me off of my feet
Ain't nobody's business
But mine and my baby
G'on, girl!
My lonely days are gone
Give it to me
Give me some time
The way you make me feel
Come on, be my girl
I wanna be with mine
You really turn me on
Ain't nobody's business
You knock me off of my feet

Gallery[]


Trivia[]

  • The "Hot Fever" demo is known to be an instrumental, sounding basically the same as the finished product, although pre-Westlake Recording Studios.[5]
  • In early pressings of the Bad album, "The Way You Make Me Feel" had a different mixing and included clicks before the breakdown.
  • It is one of the five songs on Bad that had to be sped up due to due to the limitations on a 12" LP record. Other songs were "Bad", "Speed Demon", "Just Good Friends", and "Smooth Criminal".
  • For unknown reasons, on early pressings of the 2001 special edition of Bad the song was titled "The Way You Make Me Feel (Hot Fever)".

References[]

Discography
Studio albums
Got to Be ThereBenMusic & MeForever, Michael Off the WallThrillerBadDangerousHIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book IInvincible
Other albums
Farewell My Summer LoveBlood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the MixThe Ultimate CollectionThriller 25MichaelBad 25XscapeScreamThriller 40
Singles
"Got to Be There" • "Rockin' Robin" • "I Wanna Be Where You Are" • "Ain't No Sunshine" • "Ben" • "With a Child's Heart" • "Music & Me" • "We're Almost There" • "Just a Little Bit of You" • "You Can't Win" • "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" • "Rock with You" • "Off the Wall" • "She's Out of My Life" • "Girlfriend" • "One Day in Your Life" • "The Girl is Mine" • "Billie Jean" • "Beat It" • "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" • "Human Nature" • "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" • "Thriller" • "Happy" • "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" • "Bad" • "The Way You Make Me Feel" • "Man in the Mirror" • "Dirty Diana" • "Another Part of Me" • "Smooth Criminal" • "Leave Me Alone" • "Liberian Girl" • "Black or White" • "Remember the Time" • "In the Closet" • "Jam" • "Who Is It" • "Heal the World" • "Give In to Me" • "Will You Be There" • "Gone Too Soon" • "Scream/Childhood" • "You Are Not Alone" • "Earth Song" • "They Don't Care About Us" • "Stranger in Moscow" • "Blood on the Dance Floor" • "HIStory/Ghosts" • "Smile" • "You Rock My World" • "Butterflies" • "Cry" • "What More Can I Give" • "One More Chance" • "The Girl is Mine 2008" • "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008" • "Hold My Hand" • "Mind Is the Magic" • "Hollywood Tonight" • "Behind the Mask" • "(I Like) The Way You Love Me" • "Love Never Felt So Good" • "A Place with No Name" • "Blood on the Dance Floor X Dangerous (The White Panda Mash-Up)"
Promotional singles
"Speed Demon" • "Someone Put Your Hand Out" • "This Time Around" • "Is It Scary" • "Speechless" • "Unbreakable" • "Cheater" • "This Is It"
Non-single songs
"Girl Don't Take Your Love from Me" • "In Our Small Way" • "Wings of My Love" • "Maria (You Were the Only One)" • "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" • "You've Got a Friend" • "Greatest Show on Earth" • "People Make the World go Round" • "We've Got a Good Thing Going" • "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" • "My Girl" • "What Goes Around Comes Around" • "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" • "You Can Cry on My Shoulder" • "Up Again" • "All the Things You Are" • "Too Young" • "Doggin' Around" • "Euphoria" • "Morning Glow" • "Johnny Raven" • "Take Me Back" • "Cinderella Stay Awhile" • "We've Got Forever" • "You Are There" • "Dapper Dan" • "Dear Michael" • "I'll Come Home To You" • "Workin' Day and Night" • "Get on the Floor" • "I Can't Help It" • "It's The Falling In Love" • "Burn This Disco Out" • "Someone in the Dark" • "Baby Be Mine" • "The Lady In My Life" • "Just Good Friends" • "Why You Wanna Trip on Me" • "She Drives Me Wild" • "Can't Let Her Get Away" • "Keep the Faith" • "Dangerous" • "D.S." • "Money" • "Come Together" • "Tabloid Junkie" • "2 Bad" • "Little Susie / Pie Jesu" • "On the Line" • "Morphine" • "Superfly Sister" • "Carousel" • "Streetwalker" • "Fly Away" • "Heartbreaker" • "Invincible" • "Break of Dawn" • "Heaven Can Wait" • "2000 Watts" • "You Are My Life" • "Privacy" • "Don't Walk Away" • "The Lost Children" • "Whatever Happens" • "Threatened" • "Shout" • "Sunset Driver" • "Scared of the Moon" • "We Are Here to Change the World" • "Monkey Business" • "Fall Again" • "In the Back" • "Beautiful Girl" • "We've Had Enough" • "For All Time" • "Got the Hots" • "Best of Joy" • "(I Can't Make It) Another Day" • "Much Too Soon" • "Don't Be Messin' 'Round" • "I'm So Blue" • "Abortion Papers" • "Free" • "Price of Fame" • "Al Capone" • "Chicago" • "Loving You" • "Slave to the Rhythm" • "Do You Know Where Your Children Are" • "Blue Gangsta" • "Xscape" • "Starlight" • "Who Do You Know" • "The Toy" • "What a Lovely Way to Go" • "She's Trouble"
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