Most singer/ songwriters find inspiration to write a new song in the strangest places. It is no different with Michael Jackson’s hit Smooth Criminal. Michael found his inspiration for this song at a C.P.R. class where they addressed the C.P.R. doll as Annie. They were told to ask the doll, “Annie, are you okay?” as part of the class. Michael had originally planned the song and music video to have a western theme in 1984, but scrapped the idea and changed it to, a quote on quote, “gangster scene,” instead. Once he had a theme for the song and the music video he started writing the lyrics. The lyrics of the song talk about a girl named Annie in abusive situation and tells the story of how everything happened. The outro of the song is the complete
