NatureCriminal7896;4281235 said:
mj_frenzy
I'm not sure if your a troll or just have your own opinions on Michael. if these are facts please tell us were you get your info. thank you very much. no harm at all.
He won't reply to things like this. I don't think he counts as a troll, he's just too full of himself beyond repair (to care about properly sharing information, distinguishable from personal interpretation).
So I googled a little regarding this...
Apparently there really was the idea to have a BAD / DANGEROUS fusion type of set for that royal concert (for the 50th birthday of the Sultan of Brunei, who allegedly paid Michael 17m for that one-off concert, about 2 months before the HIStory tour started.)
There's a mention here:
https://michael-jackson.fandom.com/wiki/Royal_Concert
"In October 2015, it was revealed that the Royal Concert was originally supposed to resemble both the Bad and Dangerous World Tours with Jackson wearing costumes and performing songs from both tours including "Another Part of Me", "Rock with You", "Dirty Diana", "Heal the World" and "Bad". However, the original concept was scrapped after a meeting between Jackson and Kenny Ortega prior to preparation for the concert in which it was decided that Jackson would do a Dangerous Tour-style performance instead."
No source is given there... but googling a little further... it seems to be based on an alleged "leak" of an email (or facebook post?) by Peggy Holmes (Michaels tour assistant director) from 2015. I only found this portuguese translation here:
https://mjbeats.com.br/michael-jackson-e-o-renascimento-da-bad-world-tour-em-1996-f12c9879c72
“Oi pessoal! Eu também trabalhei na setlist com o MJ para a versão Bad do concerto [Royal Concert em Brunei 96], MJ estava muito ansioso para voltar a essa “era”, mas dias antes da preparação do concerto, Michael teve uma reunião com Kenny Ortega [diretor da Dangerous Tour, HIStory Tour e This Is It] sobre isso, no que acabou mudando a decisão de Michael, a set list e o set-up [figurinos, arranjos, efeitos, etc] e acabaram decidindo que seria ao estilo Dangerous Tour. Infelizmente, porque nós sempre curtimos a Bad Tour e para Michael essa turnê foi lendária. Mesmo assim, Brunei 96 foi um grande concerto’’.
Translated back to english:
"Hi guys! I also worked on the setlist with MJ for the Bad version of the concert [Royal Concert in Brunei 96], MJ was very anxious to go back to that “era”, but days before the concert was set up, Michael had a meeting with Kenny Ortega [ director of Dangerous Tour, HIStory Tour and This Is It] about that, which ended up changing Michael's decision, the set list and the set-up [costumes, arrangements, effects, etc.] and ended up deciding it would be the Dangerous Tour style . Unfortunately, because we always enjoy the Bad Tour and for Michael this tour was legendary. Still, Brunei 96 was a great concert ’’.
So if there is any truth to it, it could be that it was initially suggested / requested by the Sultan to have such a Bad / Dangerous mix concert. And Michael at first was up for it / wanted to do it for the Sultan, but then, after going into details / feasibility with Kenny, changed his mind.
In any case, the song BAD doesn't seem to have been rehearsed. But that doesn't rule out that the new photo of this thread somehow has a backstage / rehearsal connection to that Brunei concert anyway.
If plans were really changed only shortly before the concert, then all the BAD style costumes probably were ready made and available in Michaels wardrobe for that concert. So he maybe just had fun wearing them backstage.
In that light also the "unreleased project" remark by the photographer would make sense to some degree. She just got the year wrong.
