The modern world is always looking for the newest way to do less work. Video conferences, e-mail and iTunes allow youto live without really having a life.
It seems Janet Jackson has figured out how to do that with an album. There's barely an indication that Janet Jackson is on her new album Discipline.
Jackson seems to have taken cues from the people who idolized her, like using voice distortion almost identical to SexyBack. Other than a voice, funny noises and rough beats from a drum machine, this album contains G? well, not much. Does sexual innuendo count as a musical aspect nowadays?
As mentioned, few of the songs sound like Jackson, or rather Janet Jackson. The single Rock With U has a Donna Summer feel to it, but most of the vocals sound oddly like Prince and/or her brother Michael.
While this is disturbing enough, the amount of heavy breathing Jackson does throughout the album is what makes the listener uncomfortable. Not much changes from song to song, with the sultry, almost lazy lyrics against charging beats, interspersed with all that heavy breathing.
Perhaps being over 40 has finally caught up with Jackson. That or she's trying to cling to her overly sexual youth with songs about flirting, one-night stands and dance clubs.
While Janet was sitting at home letting producers make her album, she must have texted in ideas for the names of the songs, which include 2nite
Never Letchu Go and the extremely clich+ 17
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Susan Tebben
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