Michael Jackson - ''Leave Me Alone''

''Leave Me Alone'' is another one of Michael Jackson's 'cry outs' to the media which is from one of Michael Jackson's most successful albums ''Bad'', which features five of his number one hits including ''Bad'', ''The Way You Make Me Feel'', ''Dirty Diana'', ''Smooth Criminal'' and ''Man In The Mirror''. However, ''Leave Me Alone'' was released outside the US and Canada showing Michael perceived the effect it would have on the media in the United States. The video of the song surrounds some of the ''false'' rumours made about him in the media including the nickname given to him ''Wacko Jacko'', which implied Michael Jackson was becoming more and more detached from society which Michael stated the name deeply offends him and added his name is Michael Jackson, and not ''Wacko Jacko'', the video also shows Michael's pet chimp ''Bubbles'', showing a newspaper article with the headline 'Michael confides to chimp' which emphasized Michael's close relationship with the animal. At the beginning of the video, a high angle shot was used to show several more headlines referring to some of the rumours said about him including Michael's diet 'Michael's space-age diet', his close friendships with actresses Elizabeth Taylor, Brooke Shields and singer Diana Ross 'Michael proposes to Liz', 'Michael to marry Brooke' and 'Michael and Diana same person', the cosmetic surgery he recently had 'Michael's cosmetic nose surgery', and references to Michael's ''alien'' side of him 'Jackson's third eye starts sunglass fad' and 'Michael weds alien'. The video also talks about the widely spread rumour of how Michael Jackson slept in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in his home in the Neverlands to slow down his ageing process. The rumour started after a picture was took by an unknown person while Michael was testing out the chamber in a hospital he visited. The worst rumour which was made was how people believed that Michael offered to buy Joseph Merrick's (The Elephant Man) bones, after visiting the London School for Doctors viewing the remains of Joseph Merrick's bones and having watched the film about him saying that The Elephant Man reminded him of himself after in the film, in one scene he shouts out 'Leave me alone, I'm not an animal, I'm a human being', also Michael Jackson mimics this by dancing with bones in the music video. The music video exaggerates the rumours by the mise en scene turning Michael Jackson’s life into an amusement park, which towards the end, a long shot was used to reveal a giant version of Michael breaking free, implying he’s had enough. Also medium shots were used alongside long shots showing Elizabeth Taylor, Bubbles, and several other things evolving around the allegations made against him. The editing used shots following Michael around the amusement park revealing different things in relation to Michael Jackson's life. The song ‘They Don’t Care About Us’ is a more direct attack on the government rather than the media as he talks about a former president: Roosevelt, and a leader from the African American civil rights movement: Martin Luther King.