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The song extends its record as longest-running male/female duet on the Official Singles Chart.
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A Halloween-ready production built from samples of Jackson's own 'Is It Scary' and Fred Wesley and The J.B.'s 'Damn Right I'm Somebody', 'Ghosts' trades in the vocabulary of haunted houses and supernatural intrusion. The track opens with a catalogue of disturbances: creaking doors, thumping floors, a coffin laid open, a restless presence that cannot be seen but unmistakably felt. Jackson's delivery is matter-of-fact, almost bewildered, as though reporting a break-in rather than performing a horror narrative. The song's emotional centre, though, sits elsewhere. Beneath the gothic staging lies an accusation: the ghost becomes a figure of jealousy, someone who has "put a knife in my back", who threatens the singer's family and baby. The supernatural language is a frame for betrayal and violation, for the intrusion of malice into domestic space. Jackson repeats the refrain "who gave you the right" with increasing urgency, the song pivoting from spooky theatre into something closer to confrontation.
"Ghosts" is a track by Michael Jackson, from the album Blood On The Dance Floor / HIStory In The Mix, released 30th July 1997. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Michael Jackson.
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