Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson cover)

Hey arseholes, this is called "songmeanings" not "yourdumbassedcommentsonthemusicvideo" Just because they dare to do feel-good music, you think they should be shot? and DXTR, u hate this song just cos AAF did it? that is about as shallow as it gets. Anyway AAF's record company wanted them to do a rock cover of mjs "earth song". And they sed no, cos they want to be known for there own music. Take that and stick it up your arse Phyxius.

Wow, there sure is a lot of unjust hate for this song.

It's a great song by the original author and a great cover. It's a shame that so many of you jump on the bandwagon of "posers arrrgggghhhhhh1!!!11!!one11!!``!" and start saying the lyrics are crappy.

I wonder what music you guys are listening to that has such deep and emotional and thought provoking lyrics...?

Some of you are too young to be judging what <i>good</i> music is.

Kids...

Okay, so nobody knows what the song means, so your just going to whine about the band. That's great.

damn you guys need to take a step back and mabey, just mabey like get a diary or something and write your problems with a.a.f. down.. Chill people.. Chill..

OK First of all... Clearly, the song is about "Annie" being "struck by a smooth criminal". That's easy enough. Perhaps it happened to a friend of Michael's. Now then... a crescendo is, as described earlier by Sebato, when a note goes from piano to forte. However, in the song, it didn't refer to an actual song, as Michael Jackson is a pedophile, not an idiot. It could have meant a few things. "As he came into the window". I don't know whether it meant he climbed in or broke it and came in, but if he broke it, then there's the crescendo as the glass is hit, cracks, and shatters. The crescendo could have been Annie screaming. It could have been gunshots. It could have been a grunt, it could have been many things, but I guaruntee you that it wasn't Annie listening to some simple plan and dying.

Repetition is a rhetorical figure and in this case it is a pretty strong energitic and is kinda alienating(goes great with Alien AF): There's US "Will you tell us that you're OK" There's YOU "Annie", there's HE "He came into her apartment He left the bloodstains on the carpet" and there's THEY "So they came into the outway" (I have no clue who THEY are).

Now HE's a smooth criminal, what makes him smoother a criminal than other criminals? He's not stealthy: he's leaving blood on the carpet on his way in and she saw him "So she ran into the bedroom". There's nothing smooth about stabing someone to death.

I guess this is a rape. Otherwise we "US" would be talking to a dead you "ANNIE". She gets struck in the bedroom(why otherwise mention the room). Than there's "Sounding heartbeats Intimidation". Correct me but in a crescendo you play all the notes both artists AAF and MJ raise the tension as they perform and the song advance. She gets "struck down" sounds to me like she's immobilized. "Doomed" in the dictionary means death, destruction or some other terrible fate it also means unfortunate inescapable outcome.

Many of you said it was a nice song to pep-up... Ever listened to the words and noticed that there's almost pleasure in the singers voices saying: "You've been hit by you've been struck by a smooth criminal". Gives me chills. Many people that got raped while they were young becomes child molesters later. I really wonder who "Annie" is? Is she really a girl?

They say annie are you ok like 100 times, lol. This version I think is a LOT better then the Mj version

I wouldnt judge AAF for this song....yes it sucks....yes the lyrics are terrible but listen to the rest of the CD this band is incredible....They are also and awesome live band....dont diss them because fo this song....there CD is great go get it.

yes yes, the lyrics are kinda repetitive, but its still a cool song, at least the aaf version, which is the only one ive heard, but thats ok...

personally i like this song, yeah it gets annoying but its cool. its also a lot better than michael jackson's version.