【专辑曲目】
Jam 5:39
In The Closet 6:32
She Drive Me Wild 3:42
Remember The Time 4:00
I Can't Let Her Get Away 5:02
Heal The World 6:24
Black or White 4:16
Give in to Me 5:28
Will you be there 7:40
Keep the Faith 5:57
Gone to Soon 3:22
Dangerous 7:00
Dangerous 危险专辑歌曲
History: Past, Present and Future
by Stephen Thomas ErlewineDespite the success of Bad, it was hard not to view it as a bit of a letdo... [详细介绍]
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Despite the success of Bad, it was hard not to view it as a bit of a letdown, since it presented a cleaner, colder, calculated version of Thriller -- something that delivered what it should on the surface, but wound up offering less in the long run. So, it was time for a change-up, something even a superstar as huge as Michael Jackson realized, so he left Quincy Jones behind, hired Guy mastermind Teddy Riley as the main producer, and worked with a variety of other producers, arrangers, and writers, most notably Bruce Swedien and Bill Bottrell. The end result of this is a much sharper, harder, riskier album than Bad, one that has its eyes on the street, even if its heart gets middle-class soft on "Heal the World." The shift in direction and change of collaborators has liberated Jackson, and he's written a set of songs that is considerably stronger than Bad, often approaching the consistency of Off the Wall and Thriller. If it is hardly as effervescent or joyous as either of those records, chalk it up to his suffocating stardom, which results in a set of songs without much real emotional center, either in their substance or performance. But, there's a lot to be said for professional craftsmanship at its peak, and Dangerous has plenty of that, not just on such fine singles as "In the Closet," "Remember the Time," or the blistering "Jam," but on album tracks like "Why You Wanna Trip on Me." No, it's not perfect -- it has a terrible cover, a couple of slow spots, and suffers from CD-era ailments of the early '90s, such as its overly long running time and its deadening Q Sound production, which sounds like somebody forgot to take the Surround Sound button off. Even so, Dangerous captures Jackson at a near-peak, delivering an album that would have ruled the pop charts surely and smoothly if it had arrived just a year earlier. But it didn't -- it arrived along with grunge, which changed the rules of the game nearly as much as Thriller itself. Consequently, it's the rare multi-platinum, number one album that qualifies as a nearly forgotten, underappreciated record.
《Dangerous》中的首曲《Black Or White》MTV耗资400万，总长11分钟，歌曲的表面主题是反映种族和睦，MTV中迈克尔与非洲部族巴厘人以及美洲土著人欢天喜地的共舞，同时在MTV中还展现了两个可爱的婴儿穿着有利环保的尿布坐在巨大的地球仪上。其中一个镜头充分体现了迈克尔的不可一世,他高踞自由女神像所举的火把上唱歌，俯首众生。不过其中的一个特技却更让人耳目一新，它每秒耗资 1万美元，经过电脑的精心处理，称为“变脸”。在开场白中,迈考利正在放硬摇滚乐，他的父亲叫他把音乐关小,而迈考利却搬来超级扩音器把父亲从屋顶震飞了出去;而后记中,一只黑豹突然变成迈克尔，发狂的跳舞，他跳起踢踏舞并把路边的汽车车窗砸得粉碎。最后变成黑豹跑开。MTV以一段动画片结束。《Black Or White》在任何意义上都是个轰动。
