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Janet (her 5th album from 1993)
Janet showed she belonged at No. 1, when in 1993, the album Janet exceeded Rhythm Nation in sales.
Selling over 10 million, it produced 6 Top 10 Billboard singles, including two No.1.
Janet won a Grammy, MTV Music and Soul Train award for Janet. She was also nominating for an Oscar for the song Again.
Janet also did her first movie feature, starring in Poetic Justice.
track list:
1. Morning
2. That's The Way Love Goes
3. You Know...
4. You Want This
5. Be A Good Boy
6. If
7. Back
8. This Time
9. Go On Miss Janet
10. Throb
11. What'll I Do
12. The Lounge
13. Funky Big Band
14. Racism
15. New Agenda
16. Love Pt. 2
17. Because Of Love
18. Wind
19. Again
20. Another Lover
21. Where Are You Now
22. Hold On Baby
23. The Body That Loves You
24. Rain
25. Any Time, Any Place
26. Are You Still Up
27. Sweet Dreams/Whoops Now
*Special Thanx to Rolling Stone Magazine*
"Control" (1986) and "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814" (1989) went far in wasting any lingering impression of their creator as merely Michael's kid sis. Irrefutably the work of a woman of substance, "janet." completes the makeover. Enlisting whiz producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for "Control" was Jackson's first flash of brilliance; the duo fused hip-hop assertiveness and pop smarts to spark both the singer's big-time explosion and a new persona a sweetheart but a powerhouse, cute but no ingenue. "Janet." deepens the groove. With 27 tracks (songs punctuated with sound effects, pillow talk and theatrical sound bites) and titles ("Throb," "The Body That Loves You") that spell out the album's theme, this is Jackson's erotic rite of passage. Collaborations with opera diva Kathleen Battle and Public Enemy's Chuck D hint at the music's allusiveness from MOR balladry to Memphis soul, from house to jazz. In more versatile voice than ever, Jackson perches atop the rhythmic percolations cool, not exactly calm, but collected. (RS 672/73)
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