Then we have the strongest stretch songs 4-7 - 'Break of Dawn' which is one that everyone seemed/seems to like as a strong composition and performance. 'Unbreakable' was considered weird though it was the best of the harder stuff because Biggie was on it and he had passed away 4 years earlier. The harder R&B is missing the hooks - a bit stiff too - Unbreakable, Heartbreaker, Invincible to start the album - they blend together too much because they lack great melodies. He had another backlog of songs and perhaps some of those are better than what was on the album. The length was typical and didn't stop his sales in the past - he was doing bloated albums already - it was the material and production. I still bought it and I liked the softer material better.

In those 10 years, he became the freak pervert and it was true that whatever way he went with Invincible sales and chart action would suffer - he was totally uncool. īen Beaumont-Thomas deemed Dangerous as Jackson's career-high album, 'the very peak of his powers, with his widest ever emotional range set to production that makes new jack swing seem much more than just lame dance moves and fluorescent man-made fibers.' Stephen Thomas Erlewine also praised Jackson's brave approach in the album, that it was 'a much sharper, riskier album' than Bad. Vogel also credited the album as a significant factor to the transformation of Black music. The contemporary music scene is certainly far more indebted to Dangerous'.

Writing for The Guardian in 2018, the critic said, 'Returning to now, without the hype or biases that accompanied its release in the early 90s, one gets a clearer sense of its significance it surveyed the cultural scene-and the internal anguish of its creator-in compelling ways. He added 'Dangerous is gaining admirers as more people move beyond the extraneous nonsense that was so prominent in contemporaneous reviews and pay attention to its content: its prescient themes, its vast inventory of sounds, its panoramic survey of musical styles.His R&B-rap fusions set the blueprint for years to come, while his industrial soundscapes and metallic beats were later popularized by artists as disparate as Nine Inch Nails and Lady Gaga'. Jeff Weiss called it 'Jackson’s final classic album and the best full-length of the New Jack Swing era.' Ĭritic Joseph Vogel described the album as Jackson's most socially conscious record, most personally revealing-similar to Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life-and the most groundbreaking record of its era. While the sounds on the album polarized critics, some have considered Dangerous as Jackson's artistic peak. Reappraisal An influence on contemporary pop and R&B artists, Dangerous has continued to receive widespread critical acclaim and has been ranked by critics and publications as one of the greatest albums of all time. At the time, it was viewed as less than his previous 3 and it still is but it has become more appreciated with time.īut it's more than being an all-time big seller - the influence it had on R&B, hip-hop/rap is way more than people who hang out here would realize - the best I can do is post a Wiki excerpt that explains the influence better. The major allegations had not started and though some of his singles in the US were relatively lower charting, in the UK and many other countries, he absolutely dominated.īlack or White #1, Remember the Time #3, In the Closet #8, Heal the World #2, Give in to Me #2, Will You Be There #9, Who Is It #10.Jam #13 Dangerous has sold 32 MILLION copies. He had plenty of fans outside of the rock world to still be effective and he was still the most famous musician and almost the most famous person in the world in 1991. People here like to kind of dwindle his success down to 2 or 3 albums but Dangerous was massive and it didn't matter about Nirvana replacing him.

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