Mikky Dee
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Re: Could have the Dangerous album been better?
Blasphemy. All of it.
:bomb:
:smokingrapper:
Michael's willingness to explore and experiment and use different styles, is a quality that I admire most in him; I prefer that, rather than have him just stick with styles of previous albums. The nineties was a time of great change, musically and I think MJ did very well to produce competitive albums and stay relevant throughout that decade...up against Pearl Jam, U2, Nirvana....to name just a few.
Dangerous is my favourite album, of any artist and my favourite album of Michael's. I would never presume to change his vision for it, in any way.
I can barely stand any Bryan Loren song....not one of them matches the richness and diversity and the message of most of the songs that eventually went onto Dangerous.
This is what I would have done:
Withdraw
-In The Closet
-She Drives Me Wild
-Can't Let Her Get Away
-Why You Wanna Trip On Me
-Give In To Me (ehh maybe)
I like these songs, but to me, they are replaceable. Plus they are NJS songs (besides Give In To Me)
Remove as singles
-Heal The World
-Black Or White
-Gone Too Soon (tribute to Ryan White)
-Will You Be There (theme of Free Willy)
These relevant songs had, and still have, purpose to exist and should not have been included on a NJS album
Add
-Someone Put Your Hand Out
-If You Don't Love Me (if reworked better)
-For All Time (if reworked better before Thriller 25 version)
Amongst the best Dangerous outtakes to me (SPYO isn't an "outtake" per se, albeit it still was not on the album)
Keep
-Remember The Time
-Jam
-Who Is It
-Keep The Faith (MITM of the album)
-Dangerous
Good songs that can fit in the album
I agree that Michael should not have agreed to making a New Jack Swing album and instead stuck to one that is more of his style. Jam, RTT, and Dangerous are the only "Michael-like" NJS songs that pass for me. Outtakes like If You Don't Love Me and She Got It should have been properly worked on as they have album potential. There are indeed more Dangerous sessions out there, like Seven Digits and Don't Believe It, worked with Bryan Loren and other people that were scrapped for Riley's initiative of a NJS album. I want to say that a Michael and Janet collaboration should have been recorded for the album since Janet's Control album was the first NJS album produced, but we got that later on with Scream. It is possible that some of these sessions can replace the five tracks I would withdraw from the album, but I guess that will remain mysterious for a while.
Blasphemy. All of it.
:bomb:
:smokingrapper:
Michael's willingness to explore and experiment and use different styles, is a quality that I admire most in him; I prefer that, rather than have him just stick with styles of previous albums. The nineties was a time of great change, musically and I think MJ did very well to produce competitive albums and stay relevant throughout that decade...up against Pearl Jam, U2, Nirvana....to name just a few.
Dangerous is my favourite album, of any artist and my favourite album of Michael's. I would never presume to change his vision for it, in any way.
I can barely stand any Bryan Loren song....not one of them matches the richness and diversity and the message of most of the songs that eventually went onto Dangerous.