The final location was filmed in Warwick, New York, where a safe forest fire was simulated in a corn field. No animals were harmed in the making of the video, with footage coming from documentary archives. The third location was Tanzania, featuring scenes of illegal poaching and hunting. The second scene sees a war zone in Karlovac, Croatia, featuring famous Serbian actor Slobodan Dimitrijević and residents of the town. Natives of the area also appeared in the video, and were not actors. The first location was the Amazon Rainforest, where a large portion had been destroyed a week after the video's completion. It was filmed in four geographic regions. The video closes with a request for donations to Jackson's Heal the World Foundation.
Read more: The moment Michael Jackson did his first moonwalk on TV and changed music history forever - videoīy the end, Michael Jackson and the world unite in the song's spiritual chant, summoning a force that heals the world. The film shows images of animal cruelty, deforestation, pollution, poaching, poverty and war. It later won the 1995 Doris Day Music Award at the Genesis Awards, and a Grammy nomination for Best Music Video, Short Form in 1997. The expensive music video for 'Earth Song' was directed by photographer Nick Brandt. Michael had disfellowshipped himself from his previous Jehovah's Witness faith, and had simplified his faith to focus on the Biblical Jesus Christ until his death in 2009. Meanwhile, 'What about death again' reminds listeners to think about their eternal death, asking people to check their heart for repentance, or to see if they really ever cared. The song becomes somewhat spiritual towards the end, where Michael calls on people to remember the earth is their inheritance from God via their ancestor Abraham. The track sees Michael sending out a wakeup-call of sorts about the terrible condition that mankind has caused to the world, from war to the killing of animals and of the earth itself. And it just suddenly dropped into my lap when I was on tour in Austria." "But this is my chance to pretty much let people hear the voice of the planet. And with the ecological unbalance going on, and a lot of the problems in the environment, I think earth feels the pain, and she has wounds, and it's about some of the joys of the planet as well. "And for me, this is Earth's Song, because I think nature is trying so hard to compensate for man's mismanagement of the Earth. Read more: Beautiful moment Michael Jackson and Princess Diana shyly first met and sparked lifelong friendship And I was feeling so much pain and so much suffering of the plight of the planet Earth.
Michael later said of the song's creation: "I remember writing 'Earth Song' when I was in Austria, in a hotel. 'Earth Song' was recorded for Michael Jackson's 1995 album HIStory, and was the third single taken from the album after 'Scream' and 'You Are Not Alone'.