Michael Jackson - Beat It
It received the Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, as well as two American Music Awards. It was the second single off the album to be put into the Music Video Producers Hall of Fame. The single was placed Rolling Stone placed on the 344th spot of its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".The song was also featured in the National Highway Safety Commission's anti-drunk driving campaign. It has been covered and remixed by so many bands, Pierce the Veil, Fall Out Boy, Pomplamoose, Justin Bieber, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Fergie, John 5, and most famously "Weird Al" Yankovic - Eat it!
"I wanted to write a song, the type of song that I would buy if I were to buy a rock song... That is how I approached it and I wanted the children to really enjoy it—the school children as well as the college students." - Jackson
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20080530224757/www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/20947527/page/33
This was so much harder! So for some guidance looked into the Grammy From this as it's just passed. It named David Bowie as the best rock song - Although he is British so looking at the list of nominations, at who was American and remember who stuck on the Top 40's also who was featured in films and the winner came to - Twenty -one pilot - Heathens. The song really does stick out from last year and was definitely over played. Now, will it be remembered in 30 years? Unfortunately, only time will tell.
As I was writing the song I was like, I want this song to be a Twenty One Pilots song first. And I want it to resonate with our fans and make sense at our show. Even though the themes in the movie inspired the beginning of it, as the lyrics came together, and as the song came together, I realized, like, this was our song.
— Tyler Joseph speaking about the song
Sources:
http://www.popbuzz.co.uk/music/artists/twenty-one-pilots/news/twenty-one-pilots-heathens-lyrics-meaning/#4D70hDaLv2MWQQho.97
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