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This is one of those I rarely listen to, but when I do, I'm always amazed by how great it is. Wish it was performed live
 
I love this song! I discovered it a few months ago while i was watching the history tour :D (new fan btw)
 
I love it. But I always have to look around and not to have anyone around who might be offended by the... noised. LOL.
 
I have had a huge major L.O.V.E. for that song. Ever since I first heard the song back when I was 12 years old. This was back in the spring of 1992 when I saw the video for the first time ever. As a 12 year old I probably should not had watch the video but I did it any way. And I am so very glad I did. Since at that time I had a huge major crush on 2 celebs at the time Johnny Depp and Michael Jackson. And that video totally killed the crush I once had on Johnny Depp. Since that video had cause me to fall instantly in L.O.V.E. with Michael. To see him in that outfit he had on in that video. I never saw him looking so gorgeous and so sexy as he did in that video. I remember watching the video and I had so badly wanted to kill the girl that was in the video with him. I was just so insanely jealous of her. At that time I did not know that was Naomi Campbell. All I knew at the time is that should have been me touching him like that in the video. And most definitely not her. She had no right to be touching my man like that. Ever since then that song was like another Who Is It for me. I even have different versions of In The Closet. Including an acapella version of that song. OMG you should hear those moans without the music. Anything just to hear those gorgeous sexy moans of his. If only Michael had done an entire album like that. I will definitely be the very first female MJ fan in line to buy an MJ album like that.
 
I'm actually a massive fan of the demo version. The production has a very strong funk grit in the drum line that unfortunately got sidelined/toned down for the final album version. I've only ever started listening to it frequently in the past month or so and every time I want to smack myself for never taking a listen to the demos.

But either way, excellent song. TOP-NOTCH vocals.
 
The interaction between Michael and Naomi in the video for In the Closet might be the sexiest between man and woman ever in music video history. I love the whole look of the video and Michael's and Naomi's oufits and I think the video represents the song and its sense of sexual tension (and maybe repression?) incredibly well.
 
MattyJam said:
One of my favourite Dangerous tracks. There was something very classy about early 90s pop that the likes of MJ, Prince, Janet and even Madonna (I'm not really a fan) were making back then. Songs like In The Closet and Who Is It by MJ, If and That's The Way Love Goes by Janet, Bad Girl and Secret by Madonna, Diamonds & Pearls and Sexy MF by Prince... it was a classy time for pop music, a lot of the big icons from the last decade had started to shed their 80s shackles and had honed their craft and were making great pop music that seemed so effortless and sophisticated.
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You've listed some of my favourite songs of all time there!!!

For me, ITC is an example of an MJ track that I'd a million times better when listened to whilst watching the short film. I like it a lot, but not a stand out on Dangerous.

I remember feeling a little frustrated when it was released at the time, thinking that there was at least 7 much stronger tracks that deserved single release bfore this one.
 
MJsBollywoodGirl7 said:
I have had a huge major L.O.V.E. for that song. Ever since I first heard the song back when I was 12 years old. This was back in the spring of 1992 when I saw the video for the first time ever. As a 12 year old I probably should not had watch the video but I did it any way.
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I was about that age the first time I saw it as well. and I watched it with 2 boys and all they said all the time was, wow look at her boobs! I was like, what's so interesting about that? :lol: (I was 12, so what did I know?)

MJsBollywoodGirl7 said:
To see him in that outfit he had on in that video. I never saw him looking so gorgeous and so sexy as he did in that video. I remember watching the video and I had so badly wanted to kill the girl that was in the video with him. I was just so insanely jealous of her. At that time I did not know that was Naomi Campbell. All I knew at the time is that should have been me touching him like that in the video. And most definitely not her. She had no right to be touching my man like that.
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the interaction between the 2 made me super jealous as well...not when I was 12, but when I got older, when I fell in love with him, when I was 14. I didn't like any women to be near him or touch him in any way. especially not in such a sexy way like that short film. nowadays I view it as one of his sexiest pieces he has ever made. Come Together short film does it for me, but this is a close 2nd. and I love the outfit as well...so very sexy. Especially his arms/shoulders/ass. Sooooo ****ing sexy :swoon:

MJsBollywoodGirl7 said:
Ever since then that song was like another Who Is It for me. I even have different versions of In The Closet. Including an acapella version of that song. OMG you should hear those moans without the music. Anything just to hear those gorgeous sexy moans of his. If only Michael had done an entire album like that. I will definitely be the very first female MJ fan in line to buy an MJ album like that.
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I know, those moans makes me go wild as well...
 
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MattyJam said:
Nah, In The Closet is up there for me. The only songs I prefer to it on Dangerous are Jam and Who Is It. That chorus, those ad-libs, the groove... everything about it is just spot on. Pop perfection.
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It is a mark of Dangerous's quality that I'd put it less than halfway down.

I think for me it's:

WII
GITM
Jam
WYBT
KTF
Dangerous
GTS
BOW
CLHGA
GTS
ITC
RTT
WYWTOM
SDMW

By far though his sexiest ever video and very cool.
 
Possibly the sexiest song he ever made. I'd rank it pretty high on Dangerous personally, the chorus is just killer. Makes me move every time.
 
Simply amazing, everything about this song is infectious, every time I hear it I just play it again. The beat is so on point.
Then those incredible vocals, I mean just when you think Michael peaks as a vocalist, he deliver this vocal masterpiece.
The short film was genius, it captures the passion and the feeling of the song so well
It helps my girlfriend loves it too :rofl: thanks Mike ;D
 
I adore ITC! It was actually one of the first short films of MJ's I ever saw... around the time he passed I was staying the weekend at my dad's and of course every channel was buzzing with coverage about Michael. I think it was VH1 that was playing his short films really really late into the night, and ITC was on when I was going to bed. I'm not sure why I have such a vivid memory of that, but I do. That was a while before I became a fan of his.

It will always have a special place in my fan girl heart :)
 
When ITC was released, I already was a huge fan. My parents liked some of his music, but I guess they had this wrong image of him as a boyish type and someone who was not really sexy.

So, my mum`s confused comment, when she watched ITC with me: "THAT is Michael Jackson?"

Yes, mum, and heĀ“s mine! :lol:
 
The unseen In the Closet footage is one of the the only reasons I watch the actual music video for A Place Without no Name.
If there's more ITC behind the scenes footage I really really really really really want to see it.
 
Pink Diamond Princess said:
The unseen In the Closet footage is one of the the only reasons I watch the actual music video for A Place Without no Name.
If there's more ITC behind the scenes footage I really really really really really want to see it.
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have you ever seen this?
 
MJJ Leaks said:
It is true that it was a duet with madonna? or just fan rumors?
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I read somewhere that it was supposed to be, but the lyrics madonna came up with were too vulgar, so Michael decided not to work with her.
If it's true then Michael was just playing innocent because we all know how he could really be.:shifty:
 
Pink Diamond Princess said:
I read somewhere that it was supposed to be, but the lyrics madonna came up with were too vulgar, so Michael decided not to work with her.
If it's true then Michael was just playing innocent because we all know how he could really be.:shifty:
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yes...he was naughty...;D
 
MJJ Leaks;4157788 said:
It is true that it was a duet with madonna? or just fan rumors?
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Not just a rumour. Madonna confirmed it.

Madonna said what followed was ‘an experiment’. “He wanted to write a song with me and I was curious,” she said. “He played me a bit of music, it was a very unfinished track and he said that he wanted to call the song ‘In the Closet’, and I said, ‘Really’?”

Madonna was shocked that Michael wanted to write something with such a provocative title, and began writing words and getting ideas. “I presented them to him, and he didn’t like them,” she said. “I think all he wanted was a provocative title, and ultimately he didn’t want the content of the song to live up to the title.” Engineer Rob Disner remembers Madonna visiting Michael at the studio on one occasion. “They spent a little while in his ‘private’ room in the back and then she left,” he recalls. “When I asked Michael later about her visit he said that she ‘scared’ him. I think we all speculated that she tried to make a ‘move’ on him but Michael never said. In any event, we never saw her again after that…”

In May 1991, Madonna gave an interview to a magazine that seemed to all but end any hope of the pair ever collaborating. “I have this whole vision about Michael,” she said. “We’re considering working on a song together. I would like to completely redo his whole image, give him a Caesar – you know, that really short haircut – and I want to get him out of those buckly boots and all that stuff. What I want him to do is go to New York and hang out for a week with the House of Xtravaganza [a group of voguers]. They could give him a new style. I’ve already asked Jose [Guiterez] and Luis [Camacho] if they would do it. They’re thrilled and ready. I said, ‘Could you give this guy a make-over for me?’ Because I think that’s really what he needs.”

When asked if Michael was ‘up for it’, Madonna said, “I don’t know. He’s up for a couple of things that surprise me. The thing is, I’m not going to get together and do some stupid ballad or love duet – no one’s going to buy it, first of all. I said, ‘Look, Michael, if you want to do something with me, you have to be willing to go all the way or I’m not going to do it’.” Madonna seemed to be implying that if they were ever to collaborate in the future, the song would have to be more provocative than a ballad. The comments about Michael’s image, however, seemed to put an end to the idea for good.
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Smallcombe, Mike. Making Michael: Inside the Career of Michael Jackson (Kindle Locations 2572-2576). Clink Street Publishing. Kindle Edition.
 
I appreciate this song, 6/10.
MJ Voice's was amazing, it's like listening " Rock with you ".
For the Video Clip I found it good.
I'm not very fan with the Live performance of this song in HIStory tour, I wish he performed it in Dangerous Tour.
* According to K. Faye, Michael didn't like the behavior of Neomi, outside the shooting.
 
respect77 said:
Not just a rumour. Madonna confirmed it.



Smallcombe, Mike. Making Michael: Inside the Career of Michael Jackson (Kindle Locations 2572-2576). Clink Street Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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Lol madonna... Why did it have to be something provacative? Why couldn't it just be a good song? What's with the all or nothing. That to me sounds very forced.
 
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