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.
An evening on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley, CA, 6/25/09 |5:23 PM: Homeless guy on the corner of Dwight & Telegraph asking for "Michael Jackson memorial change."5:28 PM: In Peet's coffee. Noticing to self that they're just playing classical flute music in here. As if on cue, it's replaced with "Remember the Time." 5:31 PM: Old school MJ ("Rock with You," I think) playing out of Gypsy Trader.5:35 P...
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530nm's post about "MOG crushes":http://mog.com/530nm/blog_post/16212 has me in a trashy kind of mood (edit: in a good way!), so here is my contribution. I am greasing the slippery slope towards mySpace2, with this poorly exposed photo of myself making eyes at you (you are 9 feet tall, naturally), showing off my tshirt. I can't be the only person who secretly loves this kind of silly online sho...
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Joe Jackson spoke to NewsOne/TV One's Smokey Fontaine in an exclusive interview where he discusses the Jackson's early years, cultivating Michael's talent, his attempts to save Michael and Omer Bhatti- Michael's alleged son.The Young Kingz Daily 2.0
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ur music have passion
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Michael, you can make a man cry just with your one song.................
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Heal the world keeps me sensational. Its like its happening all over again!
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We had to believe--at first, anyway--that this was going to be a mess. Take the a capella from Micheal Jackson's 1991 Michael Jackson-1-on-1-with-Michael-Jordan video-having single "Jam" (complete with Heavy D's exquisite rapping), mix that over the Cut Copy remixed instrumental...
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When Michael first sang this song, I just knew this was it, basically!
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Hello Celebrity Singer,I am trying to bring Celebrities together to sing a Pop song for poor Asian countries. With so many earthquakes, earth tremors and Tsunami's which no one can stop, I thought it, a good idea to have something to give for a change. The song which would be similar to 'We are the world' would have a website called USAforASIA. The song is titled as 'Peace for all'. I would app...
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When Michael first sang this song, I just knew this was it, basically!
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| 1 Jam |
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| 2 Why You Wanna Trip on Me |
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| 3 In the Closet |
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| 4 She Drives Me Wild |
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| 5 Remember the Time |
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| 6 Can't Let Her Get Away |
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| 7 Heal the World |
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| 8 Black or White |
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| 9 Who Is It |
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| 10 Give in to Me |
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| 11 Will You Be There |
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| 12 Keep the Faith |
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| 13 Gone Too Soon |
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| 14 Dangerous |
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