Amazon.co.uk Review
Michael Jackson was still going for pop hits with 1991's
Dangerous, but he also front-loaded the album with six straight Teddy Riley-assisted cuts. This half-hour swoop of tense, aggressive, often angular funk was Jackson's most interesting music since
Thriller, and still sounds, well,
invincible on this remastered edition. After that, the record's uneven, but there's nothing embarrassing about it, either. "Gone Too Soon", a non-Jackson composition about teen AIDS casualty Ryan White, is a quiet statement (particularly played next to the choir-laden "Heal the World", "Keep the Faith", and "Will You Be There") showing that the star doesn't always have to get showy. The sprightly "Black or White" is explicitly pro-interracial romance, an angle its video didn't go near, and the urgent "Give In to Me" is almost scary. Scary good, that is.
--Rickey Wright
CD Description
After a lengthy gap of nearly five years, Jackson had to pull something out of the bag. BAD was, after all, a difficultact to follow, and the press were trying to prove he was bonkers. This was a pretty decent attempt and fell in with thehard dance beat of the early 90s. "Heal The World" was muchlike the old melodic Jackson, and it became a major hit. "Black Or White" was the best of the rest, a well-constructed song in which he attempted to repeat "Ebony And Ivory" in the context of 90s dance music.