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Armond White book “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”

47) Armond White on Janet Jackson’s The Rhythm Nation Compilation (music videos) -1991-

“Last Year, Janet Jackson took the music video crown from Madonna–a fact made clear in A & M Records’ video release The Rhythm Nation Compilation, but especially by the sexy music vieo for Janet Jackson’s latest single, “Love Will Never Do (Without You)”…Janet Jackson saves the form with a perfectly revolutionary video artwork.”

http://armondwhitebook.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/armond-white-on-janet-jacksons-music-video-compilation-the-rhythm-nation-compilation-quote-from-the-book-the-resistance-ten-years-of-pop-culture-that-shook-the-world/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armond_White

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100 Best Madison Square Garden Shows - The 1990s

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Janet Jackson, March 1990

The singer made her headlining debut at Madison Square Garden during her Rhythm Nation 1814 tour, spending March 15 and 16 at the arena.

http://www.msg.com/photos/100-best-madison-square-garden-shows-the-1990s/janet-jackson-march-1990-1.29692

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Sex Songs: The 69 Steamiest Tunes ... Ever

18. Janet Jackson, 'If'

If this 1993 hit was just about having a crush, then 'Single White Female' was just about having a roommate. Janet (Ms. Jackson, if you're nasty) gives us the details on her fantasy play-by-play, including what she would do to her man's "smooth and shiny." We're sure the object of her affection cashed in immediately. -- KD

Sexiest Lyric: "You on the rise as you're touchin' my thighs and/Let me know what you like/ If you like I'll go/Down da down down down da down down"

http://www.popeater.com/2009/11/17/sex-songs/

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The 20 Sexiest Black Women Over 40

8. Janet Jackson

This siren of screen and song is getting ready to parlay her sex appeal into fashion. About to launch her own lingerie line, Janet Jackson shows that a woman can be provocative and in control at any age. At 42, she has it going on and still flaunts it.

http://www.blackvoices.com/sexy-black-women-over-forty

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Celeb Scandals: The 25 Biggest Since 1982

1. NIPPLEGATE

The Super Bowl is as American as apple pie. Flashing a bare breast on live TV during the Super Bowl, however, is not. That was quickly proven during the big game's Feb. 1, 2004, halftime show when Justin Timberlake tore off part of duet partner Janet Jackson's leather bodice, revealing a nipple-shield-adorned boob. With nearly 90 million people watching, many of them children, the incident became a flash point for family-values groups who had long argued that Hollywood was polluting kids' minds — and now they had proof. Timberlake apologized for the ''wardrobe malfunction,'' as did Jackson, who claimed the tearaway bra was ''an accident.'' But that did little to stop the ensuing tempest in a C-cup, which continued to make headlines throughout the year. The FCC issued CBS a $550,000 fine, politicians threatened bills that would ratchet up the punishment for future offensive broadcasts, and frightened radio stations began deleting naughty titles — e.g., Elton John's ''The Bitch Is Back'' — from their playlists.

CAREER IMPACT: MAJOR CBS would only allow Jackson and Timberlake to attend the Grammys if they apologized on the broadcast (she declined; he agreed). Jackson was also forced to withdraw as the lead of a planned ABC biopic on Lena Horne, and the Super Bowl controversy didn't help her 8th studio CD, Damita Jo (released weeks later), which sold just under a million. For reasons oft debated (racism? sexism? sheer popularity?), Timberlake emerged from the bra-haha unscathed.

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20053226_25,00.html

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From J|X

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1. Janet Jackson

Occupation: Singer, Actress

Janet Jackson

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Janet Jackson steamrolled her way into the '90s on a string of hits that dated back to her 1989 release, Rhythm Nation 1814, making it the only album to ever produce No. 1 hits in three separate calendar years ('89, '90, and '91). She inked a blockbuster deal with Virgin Records and dropped Janet, the project that found her fully transformed into what she was always destined to be: a one-named superstar. Sexual liberation followed, including an unforgettable topless appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone. Her stage show expanded (read: more sex!) and Janet simply Micheal-ed the game, getting more money and turning more heads with every year. Whatever, she's a legend. She's clearly got daddy issues. (She's a Jackson.) She's paid. And you wanna hit. Don't worry. We do, too. (What up, JD??)

http://best.complex.com/lists/the-90-hottest-women-of-the-90s/janet-jackson

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From J|X

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1. Janet Jackson

Occupation: Singer, Actress

Janet Jackson

big_janet-jackson-3.jpg

Janet Jackson steamrolled her way into the '90s on a string of hits that dated back to her 1989 release, Rhythm Nation 1814, making it the only album to ever produce No. 1 hits in three separate calendar years ('89, '90, and '91). She inked a blockbuster deal with Virgin Records and dropped Janet, the project that found her fully transformed into what she was always destined to be: a one-named superstar. Sexual liberation followed, including an unforgettable topless appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone. Her stage show expanded (read: more sex!) and Janet simply Micheal-ed the game, getting more money and turning more heads with every year. Whatever, she's a legend. She's clearly got daddy issues. (She's a Jackson.) She's paid. And you wanna hit. Don't worry. We do, too. (What up, JD??)

http://best.complex.com/lists/the-90-hottest-women-of-the-90s/janet-jackson

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40th Anniversary: ESSENCE's 40 Most Beautiful Covers

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March 1990

When Janet Jackson dropped her “Rhythm Nation 1814” album, ESSENCE was one of the first magazines to score an exclusive interview with the shy star. And the cover is simply gorgeous.

http://photos.essence.com/galleries/essence_covers/entry_image/562951-mar_1990#563351

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December 2010

In honor of Tyler Perry’s blockbuster film “For Colored Girls,” ESSENCE assembled the movie’s entire female cast for the December 2010 cover. Black girls rock!

http://photos.essence.com/galleries/essence_covers#563571

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VIBE Vixen Presents: The 45 Greatest Male Bashing Anthems

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23) Janet Jackson Feat. Carly Simon “Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)” (2001)

Album: All For You

Ball Buster: “Sweatin’ me but I’m not your type/You think you irk me, and you’re so right/I’d rather keep the trash and throw you out/Stupid bitch in my beach house”

Who knew little Penny could go so hard? Flipping Carly Simon’s classic “You’re So Vain” into a knockdown drag-down anthem, the soft-spoken Janet puts on her boxing gloves and even drops in a few “motherfuckers” here and there. The best part? She’s talking, not singing, these verses in a tone that sounds like she’s definitely gonna cut you.

http://www.vibe.com/photo-galleries/vibe-vixen-presents-45-greatest-male-bashing-anthems/22

This should definitely be top ten. :rolleyes:

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VIBE Vixen Presents: The 45 Greatest Male Bashing Anthems

MBA%20Janet%20Jackson%20Son%20Of%20A%20Gun.jpg

23) Janet Jackson Feat. Carly Simon “Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)” (2001)

Album: All For You

Ball Buster: “Sweatin’ me but I’m not your type/You think you irk me, and you’re so right/I’d rather keep the trash and throw you out/Stupid bitch in my beach house”

Who knew little Penny could go so hard? Flipping Carly Simon’s classic “You’re So Vain” into a knockdown drag-down anthem, the soft-spoken Janet puts on her boxing gloves and even drops in a few “motherfuckers” here and there. The best part? She’s talking, not singing, these verses in a tone that sounds like she’s definitely gonna cut you.

http://www.vibe.com/photo-galleries/vibe-vixen-presents-45-greatest-male-bashing-anthems/22

This should definitely be top ten. :rolleyes:

:blush: I knew a few non-Janhova fans that loved this song.

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I forgot to post this a while back.

Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Albums of the 90s

58. Janet Jackson, janet.

As Black-American music royalty, Janet Jackson has had every significant moment of her growth recorded. With Control, she had her cotillion. With Rhythm Nation 1814, she announced her political and sexual awakening. And with Janet. , she celebrated becoming an erotic being. using soul, rock and dance elements, as well as opera diva Kathleen Battle, Janet unleashed her most musically ambitious record, guided, as always, by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Tow albums before, she'd innocently sung, "Let's wait awhile." Now she boldy purrs, "If I was your girl, oh the things I'd do to you!/I'd make you call out my name/I'd ask who it belongs to!" Like Gloria Steinem with a six-figure video budget, she shows young women a way to have their sexual freedom and their dignity, to have their cake and be eaten, too.

From The 90s: The Inside Stories From the Decade That Rocked

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Slant Magazine

Best Singles of the 90s

22. Janet Jackson, "If." If janet. found Miss Jackson asserting her right to have an orgasm the likes of which would dwarf your puny muscular spasms, the ruthless dance rock of "If" is the proof. Aided immeasurably by a Supremes sample filtered enough to suggest a cybernetic logjam, "If" ain't no question mark. It prowls, marking its prey, staking its claim, going down-duh-down-down-down-duh-down-down on you while playing with your mind. More metallic than carnal, "If" really peaks when it reaches the sweet harmonies of the bridge before plunging headlong into the crunching paradox of the chorus. If she was your girl, she might treat you better than she claims. But you wouldn't sweat half as much. EH

83. Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson, "Scream." Jackson was reportedly a huge fan of his sister's work with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, specifically "Rhythm Nation." So it's no surprise that he would hire the duo to produce for him; what's surprising is that it took so long. "Scream" is an unrelenting techno-funk workout with the warm, layered harmonies both siblings were known for sheathed beneath clipped, sterile synth beats and swaths of metal guitar. This was nothing new for Michael, being similar in style to his single "Jam," but he adopted an even angstier tone here, spitting out lyrics aimed at the media's handling of his sex abuse trial with a vitriol not previously heard. The only moment of release comes during Janet's hushed vocal bridge, in which she demurely marvels in disgust at "all the injustice." SC

http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/feature/best-singles-of-the-90s/247

100 Greatest Dance Songs

21. Janet Jackson, "Rhythm Nation" (1989). The sonic playroom that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis built for their pet wind-up pop star Janet Jackson and her do-over debut Control already sounded like the Minneapolis sound declaring war on quiet storm R&B. So it was almost a given that the junior high ethics lessons of the Rhythm Nation project ended up literalizing Jam-Lewis's drum programming-as-armament. "We are a nation with no geographic boundaries," Janet drones without a trace of humor, "pushing toward a world rid of color lines." Get the point? Good, now let's dance with nunchucks. "Rhythm Nation" snatches an indelible sample of Larry Graham's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" bass licks, but shifts Sly Stone's guarded political optimism into a direct attack on the 1980s' culture of indifference. And if the song's music video inadvertently recalled the spirit of Leni Riefenstahl, its vision of unity through mandatory multiculturalism reverses the Nazi demagogue's ideology. Janet's interest in the state of the world only lasted for about half an LP side, but maybe that's part of the statement. First beat justice into the system, then lean back and let the escapades begin. EH

69. Janet Jackson, "The Pleasure Principle" (1986). It's human instinct to seek pleasure and avoid pain, but Freud argued that the matured ego "no longer lets itself be governed by the pleasure principle, but obeys the reality principle," or, more simply, defers said pleasure. Janet Jackson certainly followed this paradigm in her musical career, delaying her sexual satisfaction until the very end of her first two blockbuster albums and not fully submitting to it until 1993's janet. While the title track of her 1986 breakthrough Control found the singer taking the reigns of her professional life, the album's final single, "The Pleasure Principle," found her taking control of a personal relationship by refusing to settle for loveless materialism: "What I thought was happiness was only part time bliss," an all-grown-up Janet sings. Written and produced by one-time Prince keyboardist and Jam & Lewis cohort Monte Moir, the entire song parallels a fleeting love affair with a ride in a limousine, while the synths bump like busted shock absorbers and the electric guitar screeches like rubber on pavement. Janet (vis-à-vis Moir) invokes "Big Yellow Taxi," a song she would more blatantly call on for 1997's "Got 'Til It's Gone," while Moir, Jam and Lewis pave over every soul tradition to put up a clanking, whirring, smashing industrial park. SC

http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/feature/100-greatest-dance-songs/206/page_8

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BHM: 25 Albums Every Black Woman Should Own

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This pop album tells the story of a young Janet finally coming to terms with her womanhood. From “Control,” to “Nasty” and “Pleasure Principle,” almost every track on this album celebrated girl-power.

http://www.essence.com/entertainment/black_history_month/black_histroy_month_25_albums_ever_black_woman_should_listen_to.php#janet_jackson_control

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