Who is Billy Jean..?

Answer 1

I dunno...but she's not my lover

Answer 2

Billy Jean WHO?

Answer 3

You *could* be thinking of Billy-Jean King, a lovely woman tennis player who was world champion in the late 1960s/early 1970s, then struck a blow for the female cause by beating a challenge by male-chauvinist tennis player Bobby Riggs, and now coaches youngsters who have talent but not necessarily money. There was a documentary about her on BBC television a few years ago and she came across as a really good role model and delightful person.

Answer 4

Billy Jean was born in Mississippi the late 1950's. Her father was a travelling salesman and her mother was a drug addict. This left her to be raised almost exclusively by her big sister Helen Jean. When Billy turned 16 she ran away to california to pursue a career in acting. After about 6 years she landed her first movie credit in the blaxploitation movie "Chicken Dinner Carwash". From there it was a spiral of sex, drugs, and Volkswagen Beetles until finally in 1978 she was struck by a train after she fell asleep on the tracks. She didnt die instantly, however. She remained in a coma for 23 years until finally succumbing to burns she experienced when the hospital she was staying in burned to the ground. Her sister is still alive today and resides in the very same house she and Billy grew up in.

Answer 5

Do you mean Billy Jean King, the first female tennis pro.

Answer 6

She's definitely not my lover.

(Nor is Billy Jean King (former tennis pro) for that matter, LOL)

Answer 7

Michael Jackson undertook the composition of "Billie Jean" quite personally, drawing upon actual circumstances. In about 1981, during a Jacksons tour, a woman known later to be a stalker had accused Jackson of not claiming the paternity of one of her fraternal twins. She went so far as to call herself "Billie Jean Jackson", and to claim she was married to the singer. The woman was later sent to a mental hospital. Later, in a 1996 interview, Jackson said that he had known a lot of figurative "Billie Jeans" who had been Jackson 5 groupies. "Every girl claimed that their child was related to one of my brothers," the singer said. [citation needed]

He started writing the first demo of the song in his home in Hayvenhurst in the fall of 1981. When he presented the song to his co-producer Quincy Jones, Jones had problems with the title. He thought when audiences heard it they would assume Jackson was referring to tennis superstar Billie Jean King. He also had complaints about the length of the song's intro, believing it was too long; Jackson replied that the long intro made him want to dance. Jackson won both arguments: he got to keep the title of the song and the intro.[citation needed]

The introduction of the character Billie Jean is foreshadowed by a two-line reference from the album's first track "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", another Jackson-penned song. It’s evident she doesn't have the singer's best interests at heart, "tellin' lies and rubbin' shoulders", but her dismissal is casual: "So they called her mouth a motor". However coupled with her appearance on the second side of the album, the listener is made privy to the earliest of Jackson's lyrics to deal with the subject of celebrity suspicion (some have labeled it paranoia) of those in their periphery (media, groupies, etc.). This marked a subtle but important occasional shift in the entertainer’s material toward somewhat more adult themes.

Jackson is said to have recorded his lead vocal performance on the first take. But it was Jackson's arrangements and orchestration in "Billie Jean" that helped make the song unique. Jackson had wanted to write "the perfect bass line" and has said he worked on it for a couple of weeks until he succeeded with what became the basis of the final product. According to Daryl Hall, Jackson copied that bassline from the song "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)".[1] Close listenings, however, reveal only a passing similarity.[citation needed] He had also arranged the drum and synthesizer lines into perfect order, and with help from co-collaborator Jerry Hey on the strings and horns and Jackson's mastery at multi-tracking his voice for background vocals, completed the final production on "Billie Jean" only weeks before Epic's scheduled release of the Thriller album on December 1, 1982. "Billie Jean" officially became the second single from Thriller when it was released in January 1983.

Answer 8

Shes a whore that had a 1 night stand with Mj

Answer 9

She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene...

ya.. she's not my lover too

Answer 10

Not my lover - she's just a girl who claims that I am the one

Answer 11

She is a Tennis Pro. (I think retired now)