<P> 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 has a "snaky, unexpected bridge ." </P> <P> "In the Closet" was originally conceived as a duet between Jackson and Madonna . According to a 1992 interview with British journalist Jonathan Ross, Madonna said she worked on some lyrical ideas for the song but when she presented them to Michael, he decided they were too provocative and they decided not to continue with the project . </P> <P> The sepia colored music video was directed by Herb Ritts and features Jackson performing sensual dance routines with supermodel Naomi Campbell . The spoken vocals by Princess Stéphanie of Monaco were re-recorded by Campbell for the video . The clip was filmed in late March 1992 in Salton Sea, California and premiered on April 23, 1992 . It was Jackson's most sexually provocative piece and was even banned in South Africa because of its imagery . The video is featured on the DVDs Dangerous: The Short Films and Michael Jackson's Vision . Clips from the music video were used in Jackson's posthumous music video for his song "A Place with No Name", which was released as the second single from his posthumous compilation album Xscape in 2014 . </P> <P> In the Closet (U.K. single) </P>

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