Musically, "Dirty Diana" is a pop rock,[REF][REF] hard rock[REF][REF] and heavy metal[REF][REF] song similar to "Beat It" [REF].
Jon Pareles, a writer for The New York Times, viewed "Dirty Diana" as a song about a "groupie who latches onto the narrator, mixes the sexual fears of 'Billie Jean' with the hard-rock lead guitar of 'Beat It'."[REF]