This Place Hotel

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"This Place Hotel"
Original artwork for UK vinyl release
Single by The Jacksons
from the album Triumph
Released	November 1980
Recorded	1980
Genre	Post-disco
Length	5:44 (album version) 4:52 (single version)
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Michael Jackson
Producer(s)	The Jacksons
The Jacksons singles chronology
"Lovely One" (1980) "This Place Hotel" (1980) "Can You Feel It" (1981)

"This Place Hotel" (originally named "Heartbreak Hotel") is a 1980 song by the Jacksons, written by Michael Jackson. While his brothers did not sing background vocals, they were credited with playing percussion on the album while brother Tito contributed a guitar solo. The song has a tempo of 98 beats per minute, making it notably slower than many of the other disco-based songs on the album. In the song, the protagonist speaks of a time when ten years ago, he took his girlfriend to a hotel for a romantic night—only to find out that it was designed specifically to break couples up. The staff at the hotel gave the girl the impression that he had cheated on her with someone else, something he did not do, which caused her to break up with him in the hotel.

Record World praised Michael Jackson's lead vocal, the "hypnotic chorus backing" and the horn / string arrangement.^[1]