Dangerous was the first Michael Jackson album not produced by Quincy Jones.
 The album was Jackson's first since Forever, Michael to not be produced by longtime collaborator Quincy Jones
" Scholar Susan Fast thought of Dangerous as Jackson's coming-of-age album: [The album] offers a compelling narrative arc of postmodern angst, love, lust, seduction, betrayal, damnation, and above all else racial politics, in ways heretofore unseen in his music

