Great article by Joe Vogel, about the turning point in Pop music at the beginning of the '90s and #MichaelJackson's Dangerous album.
popmatters.com/michael-jackso…
popmatters.com/michael-jackso…
"[...] 20 years later, 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."
"The bottom line is this: If indeed it is considered a pop album, Dangerous redefined the parameters of pop. How else to explain an album that mixes R&B, funk, gospel, hip-hop, rock, industrial, and classical; an album that introduces one song ("Will You Be There") with
"Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and another ("Dangerous") with what sounds like the heart of a steel-city factory; an album that can alternately be paranoid, cryptic, sensual, vulnerable, idealistic, bleak, transcendent, and fearful?"
"Even the album cover - an acrylic painting by pop surrealist Mark Ryden featuring a circus-like mask through which Jackson gazes back at his audience "- signifies a new depth and awareness."
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