In 1984, all three Jackson daughters released solo albums. For Rebbie Jackson, the eldest, it was all about \u201cCentipede.\u201d\u00a0 Then for middle daughter LaToya, \u201cHeart Don\u2019t Lie\u201d became the leadoff single.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
As for Good Times <\/i>alum and youngest Jackson sibling Janet (who had already released her unsuccessful debut album earlier on), her new single would be the ironically titled \u201cDon\u2019t Stand Another Chance.\u201d\u00a0 Not only did Janet get another chance to prove herself two years later, but she would eclipse all her sisters and <\/i>brothers with the stunning watershed album Control<\/i>. <\/p>\n
From the great cover art with the crimson red background, you could just tell that this album was going to be something different. \u201cControl\u201d is a funky number telling the world that Miss Jackson is now all grown up.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m on my own, I\u2019ll call my own shots, thank you,\u201d Janet boldly declares, with typical Jackson politeness. In claiming her independence and emancipation from her controlling parents, Janet teams up with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to document this historic moment on wax.<\/p>\n
Hooking up with Jam and Lewis was both the best — and worst — thing Janet Jackson has ever done. The thing is, she has stuck to them like glue over the last twenty years for every album she has recorded since Control<\/i>.\u00a0 It has gone way past the predictable saturation point for this team and none of their recent singles have been able to reach the pop charts\u2026or radio, for that matter. It\u2019s time for a change, Janet, though by now it could be too late.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Anyway. The hit \u201cNasty\u201d is the one that brought dance music back to the masses in a fresh and unique way when it was first released.\u00a0 Along with the first single \u201cWhat Have You Done For Me Lately,\u201d it was like nothing the public had ever heard on the radio before or since. <\/p>\n
Janet would get even nastier later in her career, culminating in a career-destroying, breast-exposing Super Bowl performance with fellow pervert Justin Timberlake. But, like sister LaToya (who posed for Playboy<\/i>), Janet Jackson has never been afraid to show her sexual side. The problem Janet is faced with today is in how to show a new side of herself, if indeed there is one, which will allow her to move on from the rampantly explicit sexual material that has marred her last few albums. The first item of business should be to ditch Jam and Lewis, the two men who could be encouraging her to unleash even more unnecessary sexual fury onto the world. <\/p>\n
With Control<\/i>, it all started innocently enough.\u00a0 At the time, Janet was just a teenager and still had some baby fat on her, so it made sense to stay covered up and allude <\/i>to sex instead of hitting people over the head with it.\u00a0 The slow jam \u201cFunny How Time Flies\u201d points to the decidedly adult direction she was moving towards, so it is an appropriate tune to close out the album.\u00a0 Her lovelorn teenage angst is expressed in the strong and straightforward R&B track \u201cHe Doesn\u2019t Even Know I\u2019m Alive,\u201d and her unrequited frustrations overflow on \u201cYou Can Be Mine,\u201d a fun song that is reminiscent of the stuff Gwen Stefani is doing now. <\/p>\n
The other singles selected from Control<\/i> are too run-of-the-mill to be very memorable.\u00a0 \u201cWhen I Think Of You\u201d did go to No. 1, but the video remix is better than this mediocre version.\u00a0 The video for \u201cPleasure Principle\u201d also does its average song justice, featuring a slimmed-down Janet in workout mode. And then there is the ballad thrown in for good measure, \u201cLet\u2019s Wait Awhile,\u201d which sounds as though Janet herself doesn\u2019t wholeheartedly believe in what she is singing.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
She is, after all, one nasty girl who would never keep the boys at bay for long. That velvet rope was in her closet just waiting to burn. Too bad her career would go up in flames right along with it, instead of follow the course that this amazing disc laid out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":28728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5814],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-40221","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-janet-jackson","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40221"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40221"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}