Dance Naked is the thirteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp released on June 21, 1994.

As a result, he wrote several purposely radio-friendly songs and recorded them within the span of 14 days at his Belmont Mall recording studio in Belmont, Indiana, intending to show the lack of effort required to produce the type of album they were asking for.

Although Mellencamp claims that Dance Naked was merely an easy output to give the record company what they wanted, the album was still well received and earned a Platinum certification by the RIAA.

The most notable accomplishment was the largely successful single "Wild Night", a cover of the 1971 song by Van Morrison.

The song featured Me'shell Ndegeocello on a duet with Mellencamp as well as the prominent bass lead.

"This is as naked a rock record as you're going to hear", Mellencamp told Billboard's Jim Bessman in an April 23, 1994, story.

What you get when you do that is the haunting type of feeling that you won't get with lush productions like Human Wheels and The Lonesome Jubilee, which were big-production records."