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| Artist: Janet Jackson
Label: Island
Category: Music
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Rating:  134 reviews
Sales Rank: 4072
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001073502
UPC: 602517613553
EAN: 0602517613553
ASIN: B00112ARJ0
Release Date: February 26, 2008
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 Good but needs to be better September 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Aw Janet, where have you gone? I hate the image Janet portrays in the last few albums she has put out. I am not sure I can say I loved any of her albums from front to back other than "Control" and my absolute fav. "Janet". I have always followed her though since day one and still consider her one my favs, but that doesn't mean I can turn a blind ear to her music. Artist who are known and do well at a certain style of music, unfortunately needs to stick with that. Janet doesn't make good slow songs, she is known for fast tempo, fun songs. "Give me a beat", anybody? This is what I love and expect from her. "Feedback" got me excited about her again and "Luv" is a great track as well, but I can handpick only a few out of this cd that I can play over and over. This happens alot with her cds, there are a few good songs and the rest of them are flat fillers. What's up with the whole dominatrix scene. It's like she is always wrestling between good and bad. I get tired of the talking intros to each song and the whispering, in bed, talk. Girl, get down, and make some rockin songs. I love her in concert and I am seeing her next month and she can put on a good show because again, that is what she does. But here again, it still seems she is struggling to find who she is because I sure as hell don't know. And don't get me started with her involvement with Dupri. I really don't think he has done her any favors. Enough said!
Perhaps her most Underrated Effort to Date September 12, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Who has been the biggest female pop star over the past 25 years??
Someone without the glitz and glam of Madonna, without the powerful vocals of a Whitney or a Mariah, without the corporate promotions of phonies like Britney Spears....and this person is not even the biggest star in their own family!! The answer is Janet Jackson.
With "Discipline," Janet has dropped her most artistic effort in years; the album contains more deep grooves and stunningly catchy hooks than anything she has released since 1993's "Janet." There are about five exceptional songs here, the best of the bunch being "Luv" and the leading single "Feedback." THere are a few ballads, the most noteworthy being "Never Gonna Let U Go," which is classic Janet balladry in the vein of "Come Back to Me." Other grooves such as "Rock With You" and "So Much Betta" revisit past hits but put a real modern spin on them; all of the interludes can be programmed out and this makes for a very enjoyable listen, although a few songs have some jarring lyrics that are a bit too much. Janet is now 42, and she deserves one more run at the top of the charts. She just might get it if she pursues a similar direction to the deep grooves and ballads that made her best work so appealing. And despite the numerous attempts on her past records to act much younger than she is, there are indicators on "Discipline" that for the first time, she may just grow old gracefully.
Discipline September 8, 2008
This CD is great. You can really get into the story of Janet. LOVE it.
All for you is all for me September 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Her "All for you" cd is her best work by far. I have to get a new cd because I played it death. Her latest one is nice but not a big hitter with me. She could do much better, and hope that she does.
 Time to rework this tired, tired formula.... August 20, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
After I saw in the paper today that Janet was launching a lingerie line, I was just irritated enough to come here to write a review of "Discipline". Too late--Terry Mesnard has just about taken every word out of my mouth. I would add to what he wrote that Janet was at her best when she was addressing social issues and laying down fierce, hard tracks.
With "Janet" she shed her clothes and inhibitions--bravo for you Ms. Jackson--I always thought you might be harboring the need to get just a little nasty! Then "The Velvet Rope" took that a step further and I was wowed by the funk party she threw. Since then I've felt that she has gone the way of Mariah Carey in the "make the world my gynecologist" department. Pretty much every song has to have that "I Feel Love" vibe to it. Ok Janet, we get it, you're sexually liberated--MOVE ON!
Say what you will about Madonna--and don't forget, Janet did have her say about Madonna's sexually explicit material--but Madonna did at least have a point to make with all of her sexually in-your-face moments. Janet and Mariah are just sexual in the "Look at me, I'm a butterfly, moth, whatever--dancing in the flames of love, making shadows on the wall...la, la, la!" Ok--we get your point--NEXT!
There might be a reason Janet's been on such a slippery slope with her career for the last several years--it all sounds and looks like rehash--hardly anything she does doesn't sound familiar like you might have heard it on one of her other albums. Even in her videos she has the look of someone who is only concerned with all that is superficial--even the way she looks smacks of overproduction. And, if I hear her tell me another nickname she had as a kid or call out the names of her friends in another song...don't even get me started on those "I'm sick of them by the second listen" interludes! Doesn't she have anything to say about "the state of the world today" anymore...or are her sexuality and physical perfection the only things that are on her mind? And then there are all of those lip-synced performances, which really irritate me when you've paid the purchase price to see a show--be it live or on dvd. Having a little help is one thing, but when your mouth doesn't even move with the sound--please!
I haven't given up on her, but she better find a new groove if she ever wants to be as relevant as she once was. I know the girl still has a care for something in the world besides sex, and that there's probably still a slammin' album in her somewhere, but this mess ain't a workin'!!!
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