The Estate of Michael Jackson released a new official music video for “Human Nature” on Friday 24 April 2026, timed to the worldwide opening of Antoine Fuqua’s biopic Michael and the day’s soundtrack rollout.
The clip arrives more than four decades after the song first appeared as the fifth single from Thriller in 1983. Written by Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro and lyricist John Bettis, “Human Nature” remains one of Jackson’s most-streamed ballads and one of his most-covered, most famously by Miles Davis on his 1985 album You’re Under Arrest.
What’s in the video
Rather than a narrative short film, the new clip is a stripped-down mood piece. Newly-shot dance sequences are inter-cut with archival material from the Bad World Tour, leaning on the song’s quieter contours instead of trying to retro-fit a story. The ensemble of dancers in the new footage is deliberately broad — a range of ages, skin tones and backgrounds — and the edit prioritises movement and atmosphere over cinematic spectacle.
Why now
The release is part of a wider promotional push around the Michael film, which opened in cinemas on the same day and finished its opening weekend as the number-one film worldwide. The accompanying Michael: Songs from the Motion Picture soundtrack, released by Columbia Records on Friday, includes the original 1982 recording of “Human Nature” alongside selections from Off the Wall, Bad and earlier Jackson 5 material.
The Estate has been steadily increasing its visual output over the last twelve months — from remastered short-film uploads to fresh edits of unreleased material — and this is the most prominent new clip of the year so far.