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''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present and Future, Book I'' is the ninth studio album recorded by Music/MichaelJackson. It was released through Creator/EpicRecords via his new Music/MJJMusic label on June 20, 1995.

''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present and Future, Book I'' is the ninth studio album recorded by Music/MichaelJackson. It was released through Creator/EpicRecords via his new "MJJ Music" label on June 20, 1995.

* TheArtifact: The first disc. It's the result of two different aborted "greatest hits" albums Jackson worked on in 1989 and 1994, but were abandoned because Jackson ended up recording enough new material to make an actual album; the end results being ''Music/{{Dangerous}} and this album.

In the interim between ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' and this album, Jackson was first accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy, which resulted in him negotiating a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement with the accuser's family. This would lead to his public image taking a hit, and his widely publicized 1994 marriage to Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Music/ElvisPresley) just months after the settlement arguably made matters more complicated. These scandals provided much grist for the mill of the new songs on Disc Two of this album, resulting in a substantially DarkerAndEdgier work for Jackson. Sales and reviews of ''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present And Future, Book I'' were greatly [[OvershadowedByControversy overshadowed by the controversy about Jackson's private life]], with most audiences failing to notice and appreciate the merits of the music itself.

* RemixAlbum: ''Blood on the Dance Floor: [=HIStory=] in the Mix'', which also doubles as a 4-track EP of cut tracks from the ''[=HIStory=]'' and ''Dangerous'' that didn't fit the main themes of the rest of the vanilla album.

''Smile, what's the use of crying''\\

# "[=HISstory=]" (6:34)

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Later releases of the double-album version censor antisemetic slurs that were included in "They Don't Care About Us," replacing them with synthesized percussion sounds after Jackson attracted criticism for their use. Jackson claimed that the use of such language was meant to connect to his own dilemma at the time, but accusations of Jackson being an antisemite persisted nonetheless. Versions of the album with the uncensored version of the song are now considered collector's items.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Listen to any radio edit of "This Time Around", and you'll notice that Jackson's curses are edited out, but Biggie's [[NWordPrivileges N-bombs]] are left intact. You would never hear anyone, rapper or otherwise, get away with that on mainstream radio today.

--> ''No one understands me''
--> ''They view it as such strange eccentricities''
--> ''It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known''

** The "Blood on the Dance Floor" tracks on their own can be considered a concept album on inner demons like jealousy, relationships, lust, drug addiction, and masochism.

** "2Bad" namedrops the Jackson songs "Bad" and "Scream."
--> ''Too bad too bad about it''
--> ''Why don't you scream and shout it?''

--> ''How does it feel?''
--> ''How does it feel?''
--> ''When you're alone and you're cold inside?''
* {{Crossover}}[=/=]TheCameo: Music/TheFugees remixed "Blood on the Dance Floor" and "[=2Bad=]", with John Forte and Wyclef even appearing on the latter remix as guests.

--> ''Anything for money''
--> ''Would lie for you''
--> ''Would die for you''
--> ''Even sell my soul to the devil''

--> ''Everyone came to see''
--> ''The girl that now is dead''

* Letters2Numbers: "2Bad."

--> ''Just because you read it in a magazine''
--> ''Or see it on the TV screen''
--> ''Don't make it factual, actual''
--> ''They say he's homosexual''

--> ''Have you seen my childhood?''
--> ''I'm searching for the world that I come from''
--> ''Cause I've been looking around''
--> ''In the lost and found of my heart''

--> ''You are not alone''
--> ''I am here with you''
--> ''Though we're far apart''
--> ''You're always in my heart''
** "Smile"
--> ''Smile, what's the use of crying''
--> ''You'll find that life is still worthwhile''
--> ''If you just smile''

--> ''You ain't done enough for me''
--> ''You ain't done enough for me''
--> ''You are disgustin' me, yeah yeah''
--> ''You're aiming just for me''
--> ''You are disgustin' me''

** [[Music/PrincesAssociates Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis]] ("Scream," "Is It Scary," "Tabloid Junkie")

** Rene Moore ("This Time Around," "2Bad")

* SingerNameDrop: "2Bad"
--> ''I'm really undefeated when MJ is on my team, theme''
--> ''(...) Mike's bad, I'm bad, who are you?''

* SpecialGuest: "2Bad" features a rap segment by basketball player Shaquille O' Neal. "This Time Around" also has one by Music/TheNotoriousBIG.

--> ''Sister's married to a 'hood,''
--> ''Sayin' that she got it good.''

--> ''Mother's preaching Abraham,''
--> ''Brothers, they don't give a damn.''

--> ''Just because you read it in a magazine''
--> ''Or see it on the TV screen''
--> ''Don't make it factual''
--> ''Though everybody wants to read all about it''

--> ''He say one day you will see''
--> ''His place in world history''

--> ''How many victims must there be''
--> ''Slaughtered in vain across the land''
--> ''And how many struggles must there be''
--> ''Before we choose to live the prophet's plan''

--> ''What have we've done to the world?''
--> ''Look what we've done''
* AWildRapperAppears: During "2Bad" basketball player Creator/ShaquilleONeal has a rap segment. Halfway into "This Time Around", Music/TheNotoriousBIG has a rap.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, this example was removed. Please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

In the interim between ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' and this album, Jackson was first accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy, which resulted in him negotiating a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement with the accuser's family. This would permanently stain his public image, and his widely publicized 1994 marriage to Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Music/ElvisPresley) just months after the settlement arguably made matters more complicated. These scandals provided much grist for the mill of the new songs on Disc Two of this album, resulting in a substantially DarkerAndEdgier work for Jackson. Sales and reviews of ''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present And Future, Book I'' were greatly [[OvershadowedByControversy overshadowed by the controversy about Jackson's private life]], with most audiences failing to notice the merits of the music itself.

* LastNoteNightmare: "Stranger in Moscow" , a slow, moody ballad, ends with a man whispering menacingly in Russian over the end. Chills right up the spine. Allegedly this is a KGB agent interrogating us. The liner notes for Michael's album ''Blood on the Dance Floor: [=HIStory=] in the Mix'' give a translation: "Why have you come from the West? Confess! To steal the great achievements of the people, the accomplishments of the workers..."

* OneWordTitle: "Money," "Scream,", "Childhood," "[=HIStory=]," "Smile."

* SelfPlagiarism: To a degree. in 1993, Michael and his sound team were tapped to help compose the music for VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog3. However, they were abruptly dropped from the project for unclear reasons (their removal happened to coincide with the child molestation accusations, though others who also worked on the game said Michael didn't like the sound quality of the music and voluntarily quit), though their music was kept in the game. Not wanting the music to go to total waste, Michael took the ending theme he composed for the game, slowed it down, and turned it into "Stranger in Moscow". It would be ''ten years'' before Sonic fans started putting two and two together.

* TheSomethingSong: "Earth Song".

** Once again, Slash of Music/GunsNRoses lends his guitar skills on an MJ album, this time on "D.S.".
* SpiritualSuccessor: "2 Bad" is one to Jackson's 1987 hit "Bad", even going as far as to reuse certain lyrics in the beginning of the song.

* NationalStereotypes: "Stranger In Moscow" takes place in Moscow and mentions the Kremlin, recalling more the USSR (like Stalin's tomb and the KGB), than Russia after the fall of the Iron Curtain -- odd, since it was written in 1993, two years after the collapse of Soviet Union.
* NewJackSwing: Both ''[=HIStory=]'' and ''Blood on the Dance Floor'' still contain elements of this subgenre, despite being rather ''passé'' by the mid-90's. This is largely because both albums contain leftover tracks from Music/{{Dangerous}}.

* OneWomanSong: "Little Susie".
* OneWordTitle: "Money", "Scream", "Childhood", "[=HIStory=]", "Smile."
* ParentalAbandonment: "Little Susie", which is about a little girl who lives alone in her apartment with just a music box to keep her company -- [[DownerEnding and who eventually winds up dead]].

** "You Are Not Alone"

* ProtestSong: "They Don't Care About Us", against injustice.
* PunBasedTitle: The album title is a pun on "history" and "his story". This is especially made clear in the music video, where people are dancing in a club with various TV screens show clips from Michael's music videos.

** [[Music/PrincesAssociates Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis]] (Scream, Is It Scary, Tabloid Junkie)
** Dallas Austin (This Time Around)
** David Forester (Earth Song, Childhood)
** Music/JanetJackson (Scream)
** Teddy Riley (Ghosts, Blood On the Dance Floor)
** Bryan Loren (Superfly Sister)
** Rene Moore (This Time Around, 2Bad)
** Brad Buxer (Not credited, however he co-composed two versions of Stranger In Moscow: The original VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles version, and the final album cut.)
** Music/RKelly (You Are Not Alone)
** And finally, Jackson himself, who produced several songs on his own (Money, D.S., Little Susie, They Don't Care About Us) and has co-producing credits on everything else.

* TakeThat: The song "D.S.". The lyrics say that someone named "Dom Sheldon" is a cold man, but if you listen to the song, he's clearly saying "Tom Sneddon", the Santa Barbara DA who went after him for child molestation back in the '90s and again in 2005 — in fact, some people believed that Sneddon had a vendetta against Jackson because of this song, and it was at least part of the reason he took him to trial.

A DistinctDoubleAlbum, the first CD is a GreatestHitsAlbum covering his solo career on Creator/EpicRecords, while the second CD contains all-new material. It yielded several worldwide Top 10 hits ("Scream", "They Don't Care About Us", "Earth Song", "You Are Not Alone", "History" and "Stranger In Moscow") and ambitious music videos [[note]] "Scream" remains the most expensive music video of all time at $7 million [[/note]] and is the highest-selling double album of all time, with over 33 million copies sold worldwide. The first disc would later be re-released on its own in 2001 as ''Greatest Hits: [=HIStory=], Volume I'', though the second remains exclusive to the double-CD package. The music videos associated with both the previous hits included on disc one and the new material included on disc two would also be collected on the 1998 compilation ''[=HIStory=] on Film, Volume II''.

# "History" (6:34)

!! Troper In Moscow:

** The music video of "[=HIStory=]" shows people dancing in a discotheque, while the TV screens in the background play clips from Michael's music videos, including "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough", "Black Or White", "Bad", "Jam", "In The Closet", "Earth Song", "Stranger In Moscow", "Ghosts",...

** Rap group Naughty By Nature remixed "Scream", with group member Treach appearing on a guest verse.
** R&B group Boyz II Men appear as backing vocalists on "History."
* CueTheRain: "Stranger In Moscow"'s music video is in black-and-white and about feeling sad and lonely; however, the rain represents a healing process.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Many songs are about injustice, from parents ("Scream"), politicians and police officers ("They Don't Care About Us"), pollution ("Earth Song"), justice system ("D.S."), capitalism ("Money"), the tabloid press ("Tabloid Junkie") and warfare ("History").

* FlippingTheTable: Michael Jackson does this in the prison version of "They Don't Care About Us".

* LastNoteNightmare: "Stranger in Moscow" , a slow, moody ballad, ends with a man whispering menacingly in Russian over the end. Chills right up the spine. Allegedly this is a KGB agent interrogating us. The liner notes for Michael's album ''Blood on the Dance Floor: History in the Mix'' give a translation: "Why have you come from the West? Confess! To steal the great achievements of the people, the accomplishments of the workers..."

* MoonwalkDance: Jackson is seen performing the moonwalk during a concert on one of the TV screens in the background in the music video of "HIStory," intercut with the famous shot of an astronaut walking on the moon.

* NewJackSwing: Both [=HIStory=] and ''Blood on the Dance Floor'' still contain elements of this subgenre, despite being rather ''passé'' by the mid-90's. This is partly because both albums contain leftover tracks from Music/{{Dangerous}}.

* OneWordTitle: "Money", "Scream", "Childhood", "History", "Smile".

* PoliceBrutality: "They Don't Care About Us"

** And finally, Jackson himself, who produced several songs on his own (Money, D.S., Little Susie, They Don't Care About Us) and has co-producing credits on everything else
* RockersSmashGuitars: Michael Jackson smashes a guitar in the video for "Scream".

** In the music video of "Scream" Michael and Janet are seen looking at famous art objects, including Creator/ReneMagritte's painting "Son Of Man" and a self portrait of Creator/AndyWarhol. Clips from ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' and ''Anime/{{Red Photon Zillion}}'' can also be seen.

** "They Don't Care About Us" makes mention of UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt and Martin Luther King who, if they "were livin'" "wouldn't let this be, no no".
** The music video of "History" shows archive footage of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, the Berlin Wall being destroyed, Desmond Tutu, Martin Luther King, Neil Armstrong,...

* SlowMotion: The music video of "Stranger In Moscow" is shot in slow-motion.

* TitleTrack: "History"

* TheUnintelligible: "Tabloid Junkie". Jackson raps the verses so ridiculously fast it's impossible to figure out exactly what he's saying the first time around. The fact he raps in a bitter growl the whole time doesn't help.

* TheVamp: Susie, from "Blood On the Dance Floor". She seduces Jackson, all the while planning to stab him.
* WarIsGlorious: "History"

* WarIsHell: "They Don't Care About Us", "Scream" and "History" all criticize war.

* WhatHaveIDone: "Earth Song", about pollution, war and animal extinction caused by humans.

** Jackson himself offers up two variations: "Money" and "Tabloid Junkie", the seventh and eleventh tracks respectively on the second disc, are done entirely in rap, save for the chorus.

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''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present And Future, Book I'' is the ninth studio album recorded by Music/MichaelJackson. It was released through Creator/EpicRecords via his new "MJJ Music" label on June 20, 1995.

In 1997, eight of the 15 tracks from the second disc were remixed and compiled into ''[[UpdatedRerelease Blood On The Dance Floor: [=HIStory=] In The Mix]]'', a remix album which also contained four [[CutSong cut songs]] from the ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' sessions ([[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts "Ghosts"]], "Superfly Sister", "Is It Scary", and the title track), and a brand new composition, "Morphine". It's recognized as the world's best-selling remix album of all time with six million copies sold, though it remains the lowest selling album Jackson released on Epic Records, due in part to the poor USA promotion by the label. Its title song would also be Jackson's final number one single during his lifetime. [[note]]It was his last #1 song internationally, while ''You Are Not Alone'' became this in the United States.[[/note]]

!!!The original tracks from "Blood On The Dance Floor":
# "Blood On the Dance Floor" (4:14)

!!!The remixes from "Blood On The Dance Floor":

* AlbumFiller: To Jackson fans who already owned his four previous albums, the first CD was seen as unnecessary.
* AngryBlackMan: Jackson comes across as this in "They Don't Care About Us".
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: "Stranger In Moscow" makes mention of Stalin's tomb and the KGB, two things that were already abolished in 1995. Stalin's tomb had been removed in 1960, after the destalinization. The KGB was abolished in 1991.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: Later releases of the double-album version censor antisemetic slurs that were included in "They Don't Care About Us", replacing them with synthesized percussion sounds after Jackson attracted criticism for their use. Jackson claimed that the use of such language was meant to connect to his own dilemma at the time, but accusations of Jackson being an antisemite persisted nonetheless. Versions of the album with the uncensored version of the song are now considered collector's items.
* ChangedForTheVideo: The Fugees remix of "Blood On The Dance Floor" had its own music video, and was included in the ''Michael Jackson's Vision'' DVD set over the original Teddy Riley version. [=HIStory=] also used a remix for its video.
* CloudCuckoolander: Michael claims to be this in "Childhood".

** "2Bad" namedrops the Jackson songs "Bad" and "Scream".

** The music video of "History" shows people dancing in a discotheque, while the TV screens in the background play clips from Michael's music videos, including "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough", "Black Or White", "Bad", "Jam", "In The Closet", "Earth Song", "Stranger In Moscow", "Ghosts",...

* CradleOfLoneliness: "Stranger In Moscow"

** R&B group Boyz II Men appear as backing vocalists on "History".

* DealWithTheDevil: "Money"

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The music videos for "Scream" and "Stranger In Moscow".
* DistinctDoubleAlbum: The first CD is a compilation, the second new material.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GriefSong: "Little Susie"

* GreenAesop: "Earth Song". In the music video, Jackson and various people on Earth summon nature's forces to magically reverse the killing of animals, rainforest deforestation, warfare, and pollution. To answer complaints that Jackson saw himself as some sort of MessianicArchetype who could change the world by himself, he pointed out that in the video the healing requires the grief of many people.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: "Stranger In Moscow" ends with a whispering voice in Russian. It translates to: "Why have you come from the West? Confess! To steal the great achievements of the people, the accomplishments of the workers..."
* HiddenTrack: Original pressings of the French,German and Holland releases contain a hidden twenty second greeting from Jackson on the first disc. Here's his greeting from the Holland pressing:

* LastNoteNightmare: "Stranger In Moscow" , a slow, moody ballad, ends with a man whispering menacingly in Russian over the end. Chills right up the spine. Allegedly this is a KGB agent interrogating us. The liner notes for Michael's album ''Blood on the Dance Floor: History in the Mix'' give a translation: "Why have you come from the West? Confess! To steal the great achievements of the people, the accomplishments of the workers..."
* LetsDuet: "Scream" is a duet between Michael and his sister [[Music/JanetJackson Janet]]
* Letters2Numbers: "2Bad".

* MistakenForGay: "Tabloid Junkie":

* MoneySong: "Money", where Jackson criticizes someone for doing "everything for the money".
* MoonwalkDance: Jackson is seen performing the moonwalk during a concert on one of the TV screens in the background in the music video of "History", intercut with the famous shot of an astronaut walking on the moon.

* NewJackSwing: Both [=HIStory=] and ''Blood On The Dance Floor'' use the sound liberally, despite it being considered outdated by many.
* NostalgiaFilter: In "Childhood", Jackson looks back at what he thinks an ideal childhood for him would have been like.

* NWordPrivileges: Not invoked by Jackson himself, but by Music/TheNotoriousBIG on "This Time Around".

* ThePowerOfLove: "You Are Not Alone".
* PrecisionFStrike: "Scream"

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "2 Bad"

In the interim between ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' and this album, Jackson was first accused of [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxNDb2PVcoM sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy,]] which resulted in him negotiating a [[https://themichaeljacksonallegations.com/2016/12/26/the-settlement/ multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement]] with the accuser's family. This would lead to his public image taking a hit, and his widely publicized 1994 marriage to Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Music/ElvisPresley) just months after the settlement arguably made matters more complicated. These scandals provided much grist for the mill of the new songs on Disc Two of this album, resulting in a substantially DarkerAndEdgier work for Jackson. Sales and reviews of ''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present And Future, Book I'' were greatly [[OvershadowedByControversy overshadowed by the controversy about Jackson's private life]], with most audiences failing to notice the merits of the music itself.

In 1997, eight of the 15 tracks from the second disc were remixed and compiled into ''[[UpdatedRerelease Blood On The Dance Floor: [=HIStory=] In The Mix]]'', a remix album which also contained four [[CutSong cut songs]] from the ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' sessions ([[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts "Ghosts"]], "Superfly Sister", "Is It Scary", and the title track), and a brand new composition, "Morphine". It's recognized as the world's best-selling remix album of all time with six million copies sold, it remains the lowest selling album Jackson released on Epic Records, due in part to the poor USA promotion by the label. Its title song would also be Jackson's final number one single during his lifetime. [[note]]It was his last #1 song internationally, while ''You Are Not Alone'' became this in the United States.[[/note]]

In 1997, eight of the 15 tracks from the second disc were remixed and compiled into ''[[UpdatedRerelease Blood On The Dance Floor: [=HIStory=] In The Mix]]'', a remix album which also contained four [[CutSong cut songs]] from the ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' sessions ([[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts "Ghosts"]], "Superfly Sister", "Is It Scary", and the title track), and a brand new composition, "Morphine". Though it's recognized as the world's best-selling remix album of all time at six million copies, it remains the lowest selling album Jackson released on Epic Records, due in part to the poor USA promotion by the label. Its title song would also be Jackson's final number one single during his lifetime. [[note]]It was his last #1 song internationally, while ''You Are Not Alone'' became this in the United States.[[/note]]

In the interim between ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' and this album, Jackson was first accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy, which resulted in him negotiating a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement with the accuser's family. This permanently tainted his public image, and his widely publicized 1994 marriage to Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Music/ElvisPresley) just months after the settlement arguably made matters worse. These scandals provided much grist for the mill of the new songs on Disc Two of this album, resulting in a substantially DarkerAndEdgier work for Jackson. Sales and reviews of ''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present And Future, Book I'' were greatly [[OvershadowedByControversy overshadowed by the controversy about Jackson's private life]], with most audiences failing to notice the merits of the music itself.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present And Future, Book I''.\\

->''Everyday create your history''\\
''Every path you take you're leaving your legacy!''\\
''Every soldier dies in his glory''\\
''Every legend tells of conquest and harmony!''\\

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Listen to any radio edit of "This Time Around", and you'll notice that Jackson's curses are edited out, but Biggie's [[NWordPrivileges N-bombs]] are left intact. You would never hear anyone, rapper or otherwise, get away with that on mainstream radio today.

** Shaquille O'Neal and Music/TheNotoriousBIG also appeared on "2 Bad" and "This Time Around", respectively. Jackson would later reuse one of Biggie's verses from O'Neal's "You Can't Stop the Reign" in his album ''Music/{{Invincible}}'', and appeared alongside O'Neal and Music/IceCube on the unreleased "We Be Ballin'".

* AWildRapperAppears: During "2Bad" basketball player Shaquille O' Neal has a rap segment. Halfway into "This Time Around", Music/TheNotoriousBIG has a rap.

''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present And Future, Book I'' is the ninth studio album by Music/MichaelJackson, released in 1995, and was the first to be released under his then-new "MJJ Music" imprint through Creator/EpicRecords.

In the interim between ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' and this album, Jackson was first accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy, which resulted in him negotiating a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement with the accuser's family. This permanently tainted his public image, and his widely publicized 1994 marriage to Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Music/ElvisPresley) just months after the settlement arguably made matters worse. These scandals provided much grist for the mill of the new songs on Disc Two of this album, resulting in a substantially DarkerAndEdgier work for Jackson. Sales and reviews of ''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present And Future, Book I'' were greatly [[OvershadowedByControversy overshadowed by the controversy about Jackson's private life]] and failed to notice the merits of the music itself. Despite this, the album is still noteworthy for being the highest-selling double album in music history, with 33 million copies sold worldwide.

In the interim between ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' and this album, Jackson was first accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy, which resulted in him negotiating a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement with the accuser's family. This permanently tainted his public image, and his widely publicized 1994 marriage to Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Music/ElvisPresley) just months after the settlement arguably made matters worse. These scandals provided much grist for the mill of the new songs on Disc Two of this album, resulting in a substantially DarkerAndEdgier work for Jackson. Sales and reviews of ''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present And Future, Book I'' were greatly [[OvershadowedByControversy overshadowed by the controversy about Jackson's private life]] and failed to notice the merits of the music itself.

''[=HIStory=]: Past, Present And Future, Book I'' is the ninth studio album by Music/MichaelJackson, released in 1995.

!!![=HIStory=] Continues]]

[[AC:[=HIStory=] Begins]]

[[AC:[=HIStory=] Continues]]

[[AC: The original tracks from "Blood On The Dance Floor":]]

[[AC: The remixes from "Blood On The Dance Floor":]]