This album Dangerous by Michael Jackson are these random range of images which I think is showing what’s in his imagination. Even though there’s a lot going on in this front cover the main image is still Michael’s eyes in some form of masquerade mask, however we only see his eyes and a lock of hair down the middle of his forehead. By the time this album was released, fans and the rest of the world knew who MJ was, so it wasn’t a necessity for his whole face to be shown on the front cover like on his previous albums such as Thriller and Bad. He may have chosen to just show his eyes because he felt he had to hide from the real world, and this was a symbolic way of portraying this. His name is also central on the front, unlike the title of the album which is slightly hidden amongst these images, “Dangerous" which makes up part of the picture is above a gate which leads to a much darker part of the picture with the world at the centre. Even though there is a lot going on the front cover, there is still a range of colours; reds, blacks, gold’s and blues. The fact that there is so much going on, it feels like you will see something new each time you look at it as it looks as if it has some sort of surrealist artwork on it. There is a possibility that Michael's pet chimpanzee Bubbles is on the front cover above Michael's eyes which could connote that him and Bubbles hid from the world.
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