Black or White

"Black or White" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released as the first single from Jackson's eighth album Dangerous on November 11, 1991. Slash plays guitar at the start. Michael wrote the song with Bill Bottrell. It reached number one in the United States.

In 1992, Weird Al Yankovic made a song called "Snack All Night". The song was never released, but he performed it at a concert.  

Music video
The video was directed by John Landis. It is eleven minutes long. 500 million people watched it when it was shown for the first time in 27 different countries at once. This was the most people to ever watch a music video at once. The video starts with Macaulay Culkin. Tyra Banks is at the end of the short version of the video.

 Live performances 
The song was performed live by Jackson during the Dangerous World Tour and the HIStory World Tour. It was set to be performed again for the This Is It concert series, but the shows were cancelled due to his sudden death in June 2009.

References

Category:Michael Jackson songs
Category:1991 songs
Category:Billboard Hot 100 number one songs
Category:Hip hop songs
Category:New jack swing songs
Category:R&B songs