after celebrating 15 years of Madonnas Ray of Light and feeling summery replaying it....i felt like revisiting Janet Jackson...and little did i realise...its been TWENTY years since "janet." was released 
in a post-Erotica world....the Pop music scene was in a state of shock/social consciousness....Janet Jackson signed a new record deal with Virgin Records (she became the second richest musician ever at the time in 1993 behind the tied position of her brother MJ and Madonna on the shared top spot) there was no other artist in their league. So in the summer of 1993 Janet Jackson made her debut at her new label and reinvented her image from the New Jack Swing/Revolution Rock Chick of the Rhythm Nation era (my fave album by Janet) into a more fierce/sexual predator like feel/look in a new R&B/Funk/Dance/House direction.
the album is perhaps less inventive and forward thinking when compared to Control and Rhythm Nation which brought New Jack Swing into popular music and showcased Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis (her songwriters/production duo for three decades) it is a great body of work....and with some fillers here and there it is mostly killer song after killer song and remains one of my favourite albums of all time
the song "This Time" in particular is just so haunting and creative! and "Throb" is such a massive Acid House highlight, and one of her biggest hits "thats the way love goes" was her first big global hit besides America (in the UK she usually had minimal singles success) which continued for a bulk of the 90s
the album helped bring forth the R&B sounds/genre into maisntream Pop music as well as applying elements from all over the spectrum....some Eastern influences, some massive House/Madonna-esque anthems and some Janet defining swooning beats! it defined the mid-90s in so many ways and so many artists in R&B tried to imitate...including Janet herself in the 00s. And it is her biggest selling album with over 15 million copies sold globally and is her only double platinum UK album.
Okay so thats my rantings over....just wanted to see...who else owns this album? who else likes/loves this album? and if you havent...why not check it out? Its quite a gem of a beast!

in a post-Erotica world....the Pop music scene was in a state of shock/social consciousness....Janet Jackson signed a new record deal with Virgin Records (she became the second richest musician ever at the time in 1993 behind the tied position of her brother MJ and Madonna on the shared top spot) there was no other artist in their league. So in the summer of 1993 Janet Jackson made her debut at her new label and reinvented her image from the New Jack Swing/Revolution Rock Chick of the Rhythm Nation era (my fave album by Janet) into a more fierce/sexual predator like feel/look in a new R&B/Funk/Dance/House direction.
the album is perhaps less inventive and forward thinking when compared to Control and Rhythm Nation which brought New Jack Swing into popular music and showcased Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis (her songwriters/production duo for three decades) it is a great body of work....and with some fillers here and there it is mostly killer song after killer song and remains one of my favourite albums of all time

the song "This Time" in particular is just so haunting and creative! and "Throb" is such a massive Acid House highlight, and one of her biggest hits "thats the way love goes" was her first big global hit besides America (in the UK she usually had minimal singles success) which continued for a bulk of the 90s
the album helped bring forth the R&B sounds/genre into maisntream Pop music as well as applying elements from all over the spectrum....some Eastern influences, some massive House/Madonna-esque anthems and some Janet defining swooning beats! it defined the mid-90s in so many ways and so many artists in R&B tried to imitate...including Janet herself in the 00s. And it is her biggest selling album with over 15 million copies sold globally and is her only double platinum UK album.
Okay so thats my rantings over....just wanted to see...who else owns this album? who else likes/loves this album? and if you havent...why not check it out? Its quite a gem of a beast!





hehe...Xtina could never :P haha! I loved them on RHythm Nation but so many on this album (and on Velvet ROpe and All For You too) really took the cake in some ways for me.