Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Virgin Encyclopedia | |
Dangerous was well received by most critics. Robert Christgau gave Dangerous a grade of A-, saying it was Jackson's "most consistent album since Off the Wall". Alan Light of Rolling Stone described Jackson during the thesis of the album as "a man, no longer a man-child, confronting his well-publicized demons and achieving transcendence through performance" and that album rose to "the impossible challenge set by Thriller." Stephen Thomas of Allmusic described the album as "a much sharper, riskier album than Bad". Dangerous received four Grammy nominations including three for Jackson including Best Pop Vocal Performance, Best R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song while Teddy Riley and Bruce Swedien won the Grammy for Best Engineered Album - Non Classical.
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