Dangerous was essentially a MJ/Teddy album, except for a few of MJ’s own stuff. Teddy said MJ told him to take more ownership of it and it’s “our album”. Mike had Teddy overhaul, add extra instrumentation, and help produce the tracks he worked on years prior.

Teddy is a great producer Dangerous is one of my favorite albums by Michael.

Teddy's melodies always took you where you didn't expect to go musically. Almost an inverse of what you expected but seriously old School funk, hip hop and R&B

Wrong. This was MJ's album, not Teddy's. MJ wanted his input on the tracks he needed and that was it.

Hmmm no thanks. I love Teddy Riley’s contributions to the album. MJ as an R&B artist always comes before him as a Pop artist personally. Can’t Let Her Get Away is my favorite album cut, Remember The Time Is one of my all time favorite songs and MJ songs. I Even consider In The Closet and Dangerous to be heavily underrated. That being said, Teddy Riley producing the entire album defeats the purpose of the Dangerous album. Michael wanted to work with a wider array of people to expand his own palette of sound-making and artistic capability. Not only that, to shatter perceptions that he “needed” Quincy Jones. Dangerous did that. MJ and Teddy were able to adapt MJ’s sound to New Jack and elevate its capabilities. There was also this search for “sounds the war has never heard before”, that MJ required according to Teddy. But also, MJ maintained an exploration of other genres including gospel, grunge, heavy metal, hip-hop outside of Riley. Even the cuts that didn’t make the album showed great potential like Someone Put Your Hand Out. That’s what creates the classic of Dangerous, and of Bad and of Thriller. It was MJ’s defiance of genre that made him such a dominant, influential pop-star. To defer to Teddy Riley in this instance is to destroy his artistry when his intent was to reclaim, elevate and express it. To defer to anyone on his own album is NOT Michael Jackson. Put some respect on him!

i agree and sort of disagree with rodney. if dangerous was a strictly straight up r&b new jack swing album then yes it would have been great if teddy mixed the whole entire album but dangerous is a little bit of everything album. it’s r&b, pop, rock, even gospel and inspirational with tracks like heal the world and keep the faith. i think michael was very comfortable with working with bruce sweiden who mixed all of michael’s albums from off the wall to his last studio album invincible and i think bruce really understood michael’s ear for music he knew exactly how michael wanted his albums to sound from beginning to end and if you listen to any of michael’s albums from beginning to end it’s like a a journey for example with thriller the album starts with that upbeat energetic baseline of “wanna be starting something” and the album ends with the slow sensual “the lady in my life” or with the history album the album starts with “scream” with michael and his sister janet and the album ends with “smile”. teddy riley is an incredible producer and i think that’s one of the reasons why michael wanted to work with him right after the bad tour ended in 1989 which is also when production started for the dangerous album. i mean the late 80’s and that new jack swing tempo was everything and teddy riley was that guy from keith sweat to bobby brown and even teddy’s own group guy michael was fully aware of the new jack swing sound and wanted to include that sound on his next album after bad which went on to become the dangerous album and dangerous was michael’s first album where he had complete creative control over after working with quincy jones. i think it would be cool if rodney and teddy could work together and work with michael’s estate to release some unheard songs that each producer produced for michael and put in on an album or ep so some of rodney’s songs that he produced for michael could go on the album and some of teddy’s songs he produced for michael can go on the album as well.

I think MJ made the right decision because the Bobby album is kinda loud & heavy hitting to a fault… It doesn’t have the balanced sound of the Don’t be Cruel album.

Teddy is a great producer and artist.

💯% agree with him, Bobby Brown's (Remixes on "BOBBY") are my fav's Then & Today - high energy, percussions, melody ARE SICK perfect workout 🎶 USIC

I just did an A/B comparison....wow I never realized this. The "Bobby" album does knock a bit harder. I will say this though, Michael's "Dangerous" album sounds so crisp, sharp and balanced. I guess it's all preference. I would love to hear what it would have sounded like all mixed by Teddy

Naw. Teddy is one sound. Micheal added other producers to balance it out as teddy suggested. Quincy was great. Quincy had the best studio musicians on Tap.. Quincy lent himself to all types of genres. Thriller was Disco, Rnb and Pop. Teddy is mostly hip-hop, and RnB. Teddy also had Bernard Belle as his musical director and ghost collaborate. Bernard was Regina Belle's brother. Teddy really shines when he brings hip hop to Rnb..

Teddy did the right amount. Heal the world and gone too soon are MJ staples that teddy didnt do. Plus if teddy was so great. Why Guy 2nd and 3rd album wasnt even close to the greatness of the 1st album?… but because of halftime, we know the answer, Timmy Gatling.

1st of all "That's The Way Love Goes", is Janet Jackson's song and was produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. Although Teddy is 1 of the greatest producers ever, and I love alot of his musicianship and production with all the artists he's worked with over the decades, including Mike's Dangerous Album, I wouldn't have wanted it to be the entire enfluence over Mike's album. The reasons why I don't agree is. In my opinion. It would've taken away from it's versitility, of pop sounds that signified Michael Jackson as opposed to Teddy Riley featuring MJ type of vibe.

Dude, where'd you get that thumbnail?! I have the same keyboard!

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Could u imagine Teddy Riley doing "Heal The World"?

he got money for working with Michael Jackson on that album

When is he going to release Guy's version of "My Prerogative"?

Which MJ tracks did Teddy create/assist with?

And so we wouldnt have Who Is It and Give in to me ? Are You serious ?

MJ got Teddy at the WRONG time IMHO.

No he shouldn't have.

I would have liked dangerous to have more different producers lol ... because Michael liked to be eclectic . even the cover .... would have liked to hear him even do some songs that were beatle lish ....

No

man i wish Terence Trent Darby wrote and produced Michael Jackson !! :)

The sound of Dangerous was diferent becouse was mixed by Bruce sweden, Bobby Brown sound IS more hard and dirty, becouse that kind of sound was famous in that years in USA, Dangerous IS more sweet becouse Bruce sweden, Dangerous had to be sell in allí the world so make sense that IS not the same sound, typical Teddy Relly sound, Dangerous has more the estructure of Teddy Relly sound but not allí the esence becouse Bruce sweden

Well, taste is different. I think Teddy destroyed MJ just as Bobby Brown cause je has no melody feeling. MJ should have chosen Babyface just as Bobby Brown n Jermaine and as he almost finally did with his hidden songs.

Teddy is good , very good , great but this project was to big form him , melodie are more powerfull , amazing and beautiful n Bad and thriller album Teddy do a great work but not better than the two other

Why? Don't make reactions videos to attack an artist.

No mj album would be great with just one producer on it

Disagree. While Teddy has a lot of stellar/iconic productions, a lot of what he did was junk too. He had a tendency to go overboard to the point of it being unlistenable. I especially used to hate it when he'd add that silly computerized vocoder voice to the music. Honestly I think the quality of MJ's music deteriorated once Quincy left and Teddy came in. I think MJ got Teddy at an extremely awkward time. If he gotten Teddy around the time of Just Got Paid/I Want Her...or Stay, then perhaps things would have been better. When I listen to Dangerous, I hear a ton of overproduction, noisy clutter, ridiculous grunt noises...and beats that sound like rip off's of "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals. The only song on Dangerous I like from Teddy was "Remember the Time."