Dangerous (album)

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Dangerous
Dangerous cover
Studio album by Michael Jackson
Released November 26, 1991
Recorded June 25, 1990 - October 29, 1991
Genre R&B/Pop
New jack swing
Length 76:58
Label Epic Records
EK-45400
Producer Michael Jackson
Teddy Riley
Bill Bottrell
Professional reviews
Michael Jackson chronology
Bad
(1987)		 Dangerous
(1991)		 HIStory
(1995)

Dangerous is an album released by singer-songwriter Michael Jackson in November 1991 which has sold approximately 30 million copies worldwide.

Contents

Recording sessions for the album began in Los Angeles at Ocean Way/Record One Studio 2 on June 25, 1990 and ended at Larrabee North and Ocean Way Studio on October 29, 1991 (according to the sleeve notes of the Special Edition of the album), being the most extensive recording project of Jackson's career until that time (over sixteen months compared to the usual six months spent in the recording of his previous three studio albums).

In March of 1991, Jackson signed an all-new 15 year, 6 album deal with Sony, reputedly worth $890 million, [1] making it the biggest recording deal ever. At this point, Dangerous was already in the making and Jackson ended his association with Quincy Jones, in favour of the producing talents of new jack swing inventor Teddy Riley.

The album cover was designed by Mark Ryden. The first printing of the album was released as a large box with a picture of Michael Jackson's eyes, which folded open to reveal the normal cover, in pop-up card, with the CD, and booklet in the bottom. Dangerous was heavily anticipated, as highlighted by an incident at the Los Angeles International Airport that witnessed a group of armed robbers stealing 30,000 copies of the new album before its official release.[2]

The album was released on November 26, 1991 and early sales were record breaking. In the U.S., the album debuted at #1 with 326,500 copies sold. The album spent four weeks straight at #1, but the album was notoriously knocked off the #1 position by Nirvana's Nevermind, [3], Despite the change in the music climate, Dangerous still spent its first 17 weeks inside the Billboard 200 top 10. The album managed to spend another week inside the top 10 in its 65th week in the charts, reaching #10, after Jackson received the Grammy Legend Award at the 1993 Grammy Awards. The album saw a huge boost in sales during early 1993 when he also performed at the Super Bowl and conducted his famous interview with Oprah Winfrey. In all, Dangerous spent 117 weeks inside the Billboard 200, 30 weeks more than Bad. The RIAA certified Dangerous 7x Platinum, for selling 7 million copies.

In the UK the album was even more successful. It also debuted at #1, knocking off the top-spot-big-contender, U2's Achtung Baby. However, in its second week it was replaced by Queen's Greatest Hits II, in the aftermath of Freddie Mercury's death. There it spent 23 weeks inside the top 10 (the last being its 69th week, enjoying an amazing staying power) and a total of 96 weeks inside the top 75. The sales of the album stand at 2.1 million, making Dangerous one of the UK's best-selling albums of the nineties.

The first single released from the album, "Black or White" was an instant success, Jackson's biggest hit single since "Billie Jean". Successive singles also enjoyed success. The album produced a total of 9 singles around the world (the title track was planned as a single for the end of 1993 but was cancelled), the same number as Bad. All of them were released in the UK, seven of them reaching the top 10, an achievement never before made by Jackson. The major hits released from the album were "Black or White", "Remember the Time", "In the Closet", "Heal the World", "Who Is It", and "Will You Be There". In the U.S., the singles from the album performed much worse than the singles from Thriller or even Bad, with Dangerous producing four top 10 hits out of 7 singles released there (Bad had six top 10 singles, of which the first five were all #1 hits - Dangerous's only #1 single was "Black or White").

In terms of worldwide sales, in the UK and U.S., Bad's sales were 48% of the total worldwide sales. For Dangerous this figure is just 33%, making the album a more successful product internationally. However, the singles released from Dangerous were mostly bigger hits in Europe and Australia this time around, and more were released, than the singles from Bad. There were spectacular sales compared to Bad and Thriller in many European countries and Australia. Also Dangerous sold very well in the new emerging and growing record markets of Asia and South America.

Jackson supported the album with the Dangerous World Tour. Jackson would not release another full-length album of only all new songs for 10 years, with Invincible in 2001. HIStory, released in 1995, did contain a full disc of new material, but was only available in a double-disc set, the first CD containing previous hits.

A Special Edition of the album appeared in 2001. It was digitally remastered and included a slipcase, a brand new 24-page colorful booklet with revised artwork and previously-unseen photos. Because of the constraints of Dangerous' running time, previously unreleased songs were not included, however many of them were eventually leaked onto the internet along with various demos of other tracks that appeared on the album. In 2004, some of these leaked tracks were officially released on Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection (namely the "Dangerous" demo and "Monkey Business").

As was becoming the standard for Jackson, the album's music videos were among the most costly and innovative of their time. Several of the music videos taken from the Dangerous album had complex storylines and dance sequences, and featured cameo appearances by celebrities. The video for "Jam", directed by David Kellogg, showed Jackson and Michael Jordan playing basketball and dancing together, while "Remember the Time" was set in an Ancient Egyptian palace, and starred Eddie Murphy and Iman as the pharaoh and his queen. The video also featured a cameo by NBA player Magic Johnson. "In the Closet" featured Jackson and supermodel Naomi Campbell as lovers. The director of the video was photographer Herb Ritts, who also photographed Jackson in a series of promotional shots for the release of the Dangerous album. The video clip for "Who Is It" is notable as it was directed by David Fincher who later went on direct a number of films including Se7en, Fight Club and Zodiac.

"Black or White" was originally over ten minutes long, premiering simultaneously on November 14, 1991 on MTV, VH1, BET, and FOX. The video is extremely noteworthy for featuring one of the earliest examples of computer-generated morphing. The last four minutes of the video also induced much controversy, as it depicted Jackson smashing store windows and destroying a car with a crowbar. However, this destructive behaviour was intended to imply a message of anti-racism. MTV and the other music video networks decided to excise the last four minutes of the "Black or White" video for all subsequent airings, and Jackson issued a statement apologizing to anyone who had been offended, and explaining that he tried to interpret the animal instinct of panthers into a dance. The video featured Macaulay Culkin and an appearance during the morphing scene by young Tyra Banks and was directed by John Landis, also the director of the "Thriller" short film.

From [4]

1993

American Music Awards:

  • Best Pop/Rock Album, "Dangerous"
  • Best Soul/R&B Single, "Remember The Time"
  • Special International Artist Award for record sales and humanitarian efforts around the world

Bravo Magazine: Gold Otto Award BMI Awards:

  • Two of the Most Performed Songs of the Year, "Black or White" and "Remember The Time"

Grammy Awards: Living Legend Award Guinness Book Of World Records:

  • Lifetime Achievement Award for his unprecedented world records in the world of entertainment

NAACP Image Awards:

  • 25th Silver Anniversary Entertainer of the Year Award
  • Outstanding Music Video, "Black or White"

Soul Train Awards:

  • 1993 Humanitarian of the Year Award
  • Best R&B Single, "Remember The Time"
  • Best R&B Album, "Dangerous"

World Music Awards:

  • Best Selling American Artist
  • World's Best Selling Pop Artist
  • World's Best Selling Artist of the Era

1994

Crenshaw Community Youth and Arts Foundation

  • Humanitarian Award

Smash Hits Awards

  • Best Male Vocalist

Pop Rock Magazine

  • Favorite Singer of the Year

  1. "Jam" (René Moore, Bruce Swedien, Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley) – 5:39
  2. "Why You Wanna Trip on Me" (Teddy Riley, Bernard Belle) – 5:24
  3. "In the Closet" (Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley) – 6:31
  4. "She Drives Me Wild" (Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley. Rap lyrics by Aquil Davidson) – 3:41
  5. "Remember the Time" (Teddy Riley, Michael Jackson, Bernard Belle) – 4:00
  6. "Can't Let Her Get Away" (Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley) – 4:58
  7. "Heal the World" (Michael Jackson) – 6:24
  8. "Black or White" (Michael Jackson. Rap lyrics by Bill Bottrell; features guitarist Slash) – 4:15
  9. "Who Is It" (Michael Jackson) – 6:34
  10. "Give in to Me" (Michael Jackson, Bill Bottrell) – 5:29
  11. "Will You Be There" (Michael Jackson) – 7:40
  12. "Keep the Faith" (Glen Ballard, Siedah Garrett, Michael Jackson) – 5:57
  13. "Gone Too Soon" (Larry Grossman, Buz Kohan) – 3:23
  14. "Dangerous" (Michael Jackson, Bill Bottrell, Teddy Riley) – 6:57

  1. November 1991 - "Black or White"
  2. January 1992 - "Remember the Time"
  3. April 1992 - "In the Closet"
  4. July 1992 (U.S.); September 1992 (UK) - "Jam"
  5. August 1992 (Europe); February 1993 (U.S.) - "Who Is It"
  6. October 1992 - "Heal the World"
  7. February 1993 (Europe) - "Give in to Me"
  8. May 1993 - "Will You Be There"
  9. November 1993 (Europe) - "Gone Too Soon"

Country Certification Sales
Australia 9x Platinum 630,000 [4]
Brazil 4x Platinum 500,000 [4]
Canada 6x Platinum 600,000 [5]
France 2x Diamond 2,000,000 [4]
Germany 10x Platinum 2,000,000 [4]
Japan 3x Platinum 825,000 [4]
Spain 8x Platinum 640,000 [4]
Switzerland 8x Platinum 240,000
UK 7x Platinum 2,100,000 [4]
U.S. 7x Platinum 7,000,000 [4]

Billboard 200 chart trajectory
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Chart position 1 1 1 1 5 2 2 3 4 4 2 2 2 6 6 6 9 12 21 19 22 26 24 23 26 28 28 35 33 44


Billboard 200 chart trajectory
Week 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
Chart position 44 54 48 51 58 62 61 64 75 80 87 92 102 126 136 143 97 123 138 147 149 131 120 115 106 101 113 116 121 131


Billboard 200 chart trajectory
Week 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86
Chart position 88 41 26 12 10 12 13 13 14 15 20 17 20 25 28 31 36 41 45 47 50 65 67 47 48 46
Billboard 200 chart trajectory
Week 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112
Chart position 42 38 38 40 41 44 49 46 53 67 78 85 95 97 112 103 105 115 119 116 119 133 140 136 140 167


Billboard 200 chart trajectory
Week 113 114 115 116 117
Chart position 171 181 195 182(re) 196

Known outtakes from Dangerous:

  • "A Baby Smiles"
  • "Alright Now"
  • "Bottle of Smoke"
  • "Dangerous" (early version, appeared on The Ultimate Collection)
  • "Fever"
  • "For All Time" (leaked online)
  • "Girls of Another Love"
  • "If You Don't Love Me" (leaked online)
  • "Men In Black" (unshared snippet)
  • "Monkey Business" (appeared on The Ultimate Collection)
  • "Planet Earth"
  • "Pretty Faces"
  • "Satisfy You" (duet with Brian Loren, leaked online)
  • "Serious Effect" (duet with LL Cool J, leaked online)
  • "Seven Digits"
  • "She Got It" (snippet leaked online)
  • "Someone Put Your Hand Out" (Released on Pepsi promo cassette, also later included on The Ultimate Collection)
  • "Trust About Youth"
  • "Work That Body" (snippet leaked online)

On a recent ITV documentary The One and Only Michael Jackson, collaborators stated that Jackson started Dangerous with 60 songs, suggesting that there are far more outtakes than those leaked online or released subsequently.

  • Music by René Moore, Bruce Swedien, Michael Jackson and Teddy Riley.
  • Song and lyrics by Michael Jackson.
  • Produced by Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley and Bruce Swedien.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley and Dave Way.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Arrangement by Michael Jackson, Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley and René Moore.
  • Vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson.
  • Rap performed by Heavy D.
  • Keyboards: Rene Moore, Teddy Riley, Bruce Swedien and Brad Buxer.
  • Synthesizers: Teddy Riley, Rhett Lawrence, Michael Boddicker and Brad Buxer.
  • Drums: Teddy Riley and Bruce Swedien.
  • Guitar: Teddy Riley.

  • Written and composed by Teddy Riley and Bernard Belle.
  • Produced by Teddy Riley and Michael Jackson.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley, Dave Way and Jean-Marie Horvat.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson.
  • Rhythm arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Keyboards, synthesizers and guitar: Teddy Riley.
  • Guitar intro: Paul Jackson, Jr..
  • Sequencing and programming: Wayne Cobham.

  • Written and composed by Michael Jackson and Teddy Riley.
  • Produced by Teddy Riley and Michael Jackson.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley, Jean-Marie Horvat and Dave Way.
  • Duet: Michael Jackson and Mystery Girl.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Rhythm arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Synthesizer arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson.
  • Keyboards and synthesizers: Teddy Riley.
  • Sequencing and programming: Wayne Cobham.

  • Written and composed by Michael Jackson and Teddy Riley.
  • Rap lyrics by Aqil Davidson.
  • Produced by Teddy Riley and Michael Jackson.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley, Dave Way and Jean-Marie Horvat.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Rhythm arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Synthesizer arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Keyboards and synthesizers: Teddy Riley.
  • Sequencing and programming: Wayne Cobham.
  • Rap performed by Wrecks N' Effect.

  • Written and composed by Teddy Riley, Michael Jackson and Bernard Belle.
  • Produced by Teddy Riley and Michael Jackson.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley and Dave Way.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Rhythm arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Synthesizer arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson.
  • Keyboards and synthesizers: Teddy Riley.
  • Sequencing and programming: Wayne Cobham.

  • Written and composed by Michael Jackson and Teddy Riley.
  • Produced by Teddy Riley and Michael Jackson.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley, Dave Way and Jean-Marie Horvat.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson.
  • Rhythm arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Synthesizer arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Keyboards and synthesizers: Teddy Riley.
  • Sequencing and programming: Wayne Cobham.

  • Written and composed by Michael Jackson and Marty Paich.
  • Produced by Michael Jackson.
  • Co-produced by Bruce Swedien.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien and Matt Forger.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Ending solo vocal: Christa Larson.
  • Playground girl: Ashley Farell.
  • Rhythm arrangement by Michael Jackson.
  • Orchestra arranged and conducted by Marty Paich.
  • Vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson and John Bahler.
  • Choir arrangement by John Bahler, featuring the John Bahler Singers.
  • Keyboards: Daivd Paich and Brad Buxer.
  • Synthesizers: Michael Boddicker, David Paich and Steve Porcaro.
  • Drums: Jeff Porcaro.
  • Percussion: Bryan Loren.
  • Prelude composed, arranged and conducted by Marty Paich.

  • Written and composed by Michael Jackson.
  • Rap lyrics by Bill Bottrell.
  • Produced by Michael Jackson and Bill Bottrell.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bill Bottrell.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Drums: Bryan Loren.
  • Percussion: Brad Buxer and Bill Bottrell.
  • Bass: Bryan Loren (moog) and Terry Jackson (bass guitar).
  • Keyboards: Brad Buxer, John Barnes and Jason Martz.
  • Guitar: Bill Bottrell.
  • Heavy metal guitar: Tim Pierce.
  • Speed sequencer: Michael Boddicker and Kevin Gilbert.
  • Rap performed by L.T.B.
  • "Intro":
    • Special guitar performance by Slash.
    • Directed by Michael Jackson.
    • Composed by Bill Bottrell.
    • Engineering and sound design: Matt Forger.
    • Son played by Andres McKenzie.
    • Father played by L.T.B.

  • Written and composed by Michael Jackson.
  • Produced by Michael Jackson and Bill Bottrell.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bill Bottrell.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Arrangement by Michael Jackson.
  • Drums: Bryan Loren and Bill Bottrell.
  • Bass: Bill Bottrell (synthesizer) and Louis Johnson (bass guitar).
  • Keyboard arrangement by Brad Buxer and David Paich.
  • Keyboard performance and programming: Brad Buxer, Michael Boddicker, David Paich, Steve Porcaro and Jai Winding.
  • String arrangement by George del Barrio.
  • Concertmaster: Endre Granat.
  • Solo cello: Larry Corbett.
  • Soprano voice: Michael Jackson and Linda Harmon.

  • Written and composed by Michael Jackson and Bill Bottrell.
  • Produced by Michael Jackson and Bill Bottrell.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bill Bottrell.
  • Guitars recorded by Jim Mitchell; Assisted by Craig Brock.
  • Special guitar performance by Slash.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Bass, drums, mellotron and guitar: Bill Bottrell.
  • Guitar: Tim Pierce.

  • Written and composed by Michael Jackson.
  • Produced by Michael Jackson.
  • Co-produced by Bruce Swedien.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien and Matt Forger.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Rhythm arrangement by Michael Jackson and Greg Phillinganes.
  • Orchestra arranged and conducted by Johnny Mandel.
  • Vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson.
  • Choir arrangement by Andrae and Sandra Crouch, featuring the Andrae Crouch Singers.
  • Keyboards: Greg Phillinganes and Brad Buxer.
  • Synthesizers: Michael Boddicker.
  • Synthsizers and synthesizer programming: Rhett Lawrence.
  • Drums and percussion: Brad Buxer and Bruce Swedien.
  • Percussion: Paulinho Da Costa.
  • Prelude: Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Opus 125: Presto.
    • Performed by the Cleaveland Orchestral Chorus.
      • Directed by Robert Shaw.
    • Performed by the Cleaveland Orchestra.
      • Conducted by George Szell.

  • Written and composed by Glen Ballard, Siedah Garrett and Michael Jackson.
  • Produced by Michael Jackson.
  • Co-produced by Bruce Swedien.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Arrangement by Glen Ballard, Jerry Hey and Rhett Lawrence.
  • Choir arrangement by Andrae and Sandra Crouch, featuring the Andrae Crouch Singers.
  • Background vocals: Siedah Garret and Shanice Wilson.
  • Piano and bass: Jai Winding.
  • Drums, percussion and synthesizer: Rhett Lawrence.
  • Drums and percussion: Bruce Swedien.
  • Synthesizers: Michael Boddicker.
  • Guitar: David Williams.

  • Music by Larry Grossman.
  • Lyrics by Buz Kohan.
  • Produced by Michael Jackson.
  • Co-produced by Bruce Swedien.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien.
  • Solo vocal: Michael Jackson.
  • Rhythm arrangement by David Paich.
  • Orchestra arranged and conducted by Marty Paich.
  • Keyboards: David Paich.
  • Synthesizers: David Paich, Steve Porcaro and Michael Boddicker.
  • Bass: Abraham Laboriel.
  • Percussion: Paulinho Da Costa.
  • Prelude composed, arranged and conducted by Marty Paich.

  • Written and composed by Michael Jackson, Bill Bottrell and Teddy Riley.
  • Produced by Teddy Riley and Michael Jackson.
  • Recorded by Jean-Marie Horvat, Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley and Thom Russo.
  • Mixed by Bruce Swedien and Teddy Riley.
  • Solo and background vocals: Michael Jackson.
  • Vocal arrangement by Michael Jackson.
  • Rhythm arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Synthesizer arrangement by Teddy Riley.
  • Synthesizers: Teddy Riley, Brad Buxer and Rhett Lawrence.

  • Executive producer: Michael Jackson.
  • Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley and Bill Bottrell.
  • Technical directors: Brad Sundberg and Thom Russo.
  • Additional engineering by Dave Way, Matt Forger, Jean-Marie Horvat, Richard Cottrell and Kevin Gilbert.
  • Assistant engineers: Brad Sundberg, Bart Stevens, Thom Russo, John Chamberlain, Rail Rogut, Dan Bosworth, Julie East and Elaine Anderson.
  • Mastered by Bernie Grundman.

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Flashbacks!. beach-bulletin.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
  3. ^ "The Billboard 200." Billboard. January 11, 1992.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h [2]
  5. ^ [3]

v • d • e
Michael Jackson
Album discography Got to Be There · Ben · Music and Me · Forever, Michael · Off the Wall · Thriller · Bad · Dangerous · HIStory · Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix · Invincible · Thriller 25 · TBA
Solo tours Bad World Tour · Dangerous World Tour · HIStory World Tour
Filmography The Wiz · Thriller · Captain EO · Moonwalker · Ghosts
See also Singles discography · Controversies · Awards · Records and achievements · Tours
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