"In the Closet" is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It is the third single from his eighth album, Dangerous. The song became that album's second number one R&B single and its third top ten pop single, hitting number six on the Billboard Hot 100. Allmusic wrote that this song is fine and there's a lot to be said for professional craftsmanship at its peak and he highlighted it. Robert Christgau praised and described: "he's hawking the most credible sex-and-romance of his career. "In the Closet" implores his mystery woman to keep their--get this--"lust" behind closed doors. Soon he's going wild, or fabricating desperate nostalgia for their used-to-be." Alan Light of Rolling Stone called this song: repressed lust in the titillatingly titled (and determinedly heterosexual)" and he wrote that this song haves "snaky, unexpected bridge." (wiki)