Dangerous (Michael Jackson album)
Dangerous ( engl. Dangerous ) is the eighth solo album by Michael Jackson. It was released on 26 November 1991 by Epic Records. It is the first album of Jackson, which was not produced by Quincy Jones since 1975. It has sold over 30 million copies internationally.
Artistic review
Against Dangerous Jackson sought by Bad on a new edition of his highly successful album Thriller. Since bathroom was unable to match the commercial success of Thriller, Jackson separated from his longtime producer Quincy Jones.
Dangerous among the genres of modern R & B, hip-hop and New Jack Swing, as the invention of Teddy Riley - applies - main producer of Dangerous.
Commercial success
Internationally, the sales of over 30 million, including 7 million in the United States. Moreover, it is there the fastest selling album (as measured by the sales the first week). From the terms of sales Dangerous is in the top 3 of the most successful albums Jackson (along with Thriller and Bad ). In the UK, Jackson reached with this album more Top Ten hits than with its other, namely seven.
Title list
Charts
Album
Singles
Singles
The following nine singles were released from Dangerous:
- November 1991 - Black or White
- January 1992 - Remember the Time
- April 1992 - In the Closet
- July 1992 - Who Is It (in the U.S. until April 1993)
- September 1992 - Jam (in the U.S. in July 1992)
- November 1992 - Heal the World
- February 1993 - Give In to Me ( not in the U.S.)
- June 1993 - Will You Be There
- December 1993 - Gone Too Soon (not in the U.S., there only as a promo )
After bathing in the United States with five number one hits still set a record, here sat down only the first single to the top.
Film Music
The album contains two official soundtracks for various movies from the year 1993, is the only work to date a musician, having this event.
- Will You Be There is the theme song from the soundtrack to the film Free Willy - call of freedom of the director Simon Wincer, shot in 1993 in the United States.
- Can not Let Her Get Away is part of the soundtrack of the American comic book adaptation The Meteor Man of the author, director and lead actor Robert Townsend from the year 1993.
Trivia
- Six days before the album's release, on 20 November 1991, robbed at the airport Los Angeles an armed gang 30,000 copies of the album.
- The title song Dangerous should be in the fall of 1993 ( the end of October, according to Will You Be There ) released as a single, but was not published - you probably found him due to the then highly publicized scandal for that time is inappropriate. Unusually for a Michael Jackson album, the title track did not appear as a single. The accompanying dance performance, however, was shown in 1993 at many events and concerts, often in modified versions and choreography, among others, Wetten, dass. ? in November 1995.
- The remixes of the single from Dangerous were contributed only in 1997 as bonus tracks the single Blood on the Dance Floor.
- In May 1999, Jackson lost to Italian singer Al Bano a plagiarism trial because passages of the hit Will You Be There with Al Banos song I cigni di Balaka match.
- For the introduction of Will You Be There Parts of the Allegro energico were, semper ben marcato used from the fourth movement of his 9th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Dangerous - The Short Films
In 1993, first released on video in 2001 on DVD, with Dangerous - The Short Films a compilation that includes all the music videos, performances and other footage from the Dangerous from 1991 to 1993. The DVD is also available since 2008, partly together with the album Dangerous than CD-/DVD-Kombination.