Sunday 28 June 2009

Album Cover Analysis - Dangerous by Michael Jackson
























Michael Jackson's
Dangerous Album
Released Nov 26th, 1991

Includes the famous:
Black and White
Heal the World
Dangerous
Remember the Time

Producers
Michael Jackson
Teddy Riley
Bill Bottrell

Label
Epic

This album by Michael Jackson shows him and his world in a nutshell, This random assortment of images i feel is showing Michael Jackson's vivid imagination. Even though there is so much going on in this front cover the most dominant image is still Michael, yet we only see his eyes and a lock of hair down the middle of his forehead. By the time the album was released fans, and the rest of the world knew who Jackson was, so there was no need for him to be on the front cover like on his previous album, Thriller. He might of chosen to just show his eyes because he felt he had to hide from the world, and this was a symbolic way of saying this. His name is also dominant on the front, unlike the name of the album which is slightly hidden in amongst these images, "dangerous" makes up part of the picture, a gate which leads to a much darker part of the picture with the world at the centre. This is probably signifying what Michael thought about the world at the time, this is also reflected in the song "Heal the World" featured on the album.

Even though there is a lot going on, on the front cover, there is still a limited range of colours; reds, blacks, golds and blues. The fact that there is so much going on, means that you see something new each time you look at it, comparing to art works from the symbolism and surrealism era.

The music on the album is of the pop genre. However this front cover does not assemble something from this genre, if you compare it to other pop bands/artists and their album covers. The target audience for this album would be people that like pop/ disco music, mainly teens. However Michael Jackson's fan base covers across the ages up to late 40's or even 50's.

2 comments:

  1. This cover signifies the sacrifice of a child that was kidnapped, murdered and brought back to life, being of European descent during the sacrifice the child color change to black as Michael the original one color changed to Caucasian. I do believe the child belonged to George Sr. and Barbara Bush because her name was Robin and Michael sang about Rockin Robin.
    Another person that was included in this sacrifice was Nikola Tesla and you can read this in the book of Revelation which talks about Nicolatianes as he was a genius.
    So to me it seems their body parts was used for the sacrifice.
    Another point she was named after Barbara's mother Pauline Robinson to get back at her mother she hated for having her out of wedlock.
    This is the reason you see so many videos of hatred because they are afraid their lies are catching up to the Bush and Klan.
    Robin body parts was used for a Monarch slave and she turned to a black child and this is the reason the government is hiding the identity of that person.
    George Sr name use to be Scherff then Walker now Bush. Why did they change so much and what do they have to hide? George Sr is David in the Bible and magog in the Book of Revelation and where he thinks the root of David which was Robin will return to Atlantis in their mind Washington.
    I do believe that Robin was the first born and they murdered her so that George jr could be first born.
    In my mind George raped Robin as in the Jon Benet Ramsey case. George is a pedophilia, murderous, rapist monster and we are reading the words they concoted in that book
    The bible is the mark of the beast and people have been microchip for a long time because these evils use your energy for power, wealth and control this is how they got rich.

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  2. ok guys, get your facts straight....Michael's album before Dangerous was not Thriller of course, it was Bad

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