The two discussed how the song was written with her co-writer ... Garrett thumbed through her lyric book and the words "man in the mirror" popped off the page. "We had the first verse and chorus ...

“Man in the Mirror” was No. 1 for longer than all of those songs except for “Bad.” Bad was a huge hit in its own right. It was No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for six weeks. Aside from ...