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Expecting The Unexpected From Janet Jackson’s ‘Unbreakable’


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Expecting The Unexpected From Janet Jackson’s ‘Unbreakable’

August 31, 2015 | 3:00 pm

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Joy to the world, for Saint Damita Jo, The First and Only, The Wide-Leg Pants Don Diva Empress Czar, hath returned from yonder to bless humanity with her wondrous presence once again.

Janet Jackson's absence, like that of Teen Summit, has wreaked havoc pon the likkle yute dem. We are faced with a generation impressed by weak ass two-steps, lazy hip rolls and pathetic pop star booty pops. There's a whole gaggle of folks out here with whom you and I have to interact daily who are not old enough to remember when Janet had aunties and chirren alike rocking house keys on their ears, dancing up a storm to Jam and Lewis-produced jammy jams about bigotry, education, injustice and illiteracy.

They know nothing of about the shoulder pads and the geometric hair and the legendary performances that don't require circus acts and tigers and trickery and 48 dancers to hide the fact that your favorite doesn't belong on or within 50 feet of a stage.

Yes, these post-Rhythm Nation creatures are inherently disadvantaged, but we can't fault them for their ignorance. Luckily, She Who Made "The Knowledge" is here to steer us all back on course, because, as Roy Jones, Jr., proclaimed in his well-intentioned and ill-advised single, "Y'all musta forgot."

This woman is a master of blending powerful messages and testimony on life's fuckshit into gorgeous and danceable music without being patronizing, exploitatively and obnoxiously contrarian, spectacle-hungry or Madonna-rifically corny. On one album, she sang about infidelity and emotional abuse (“What About”), the need for uncomfortable but transformative introspection (“You”), homophobia and racism ("Free Xone) and the power of Blackness ("Can't Be Stopped"). On another, she and Chuck D told us about poverty and crime just after she sang about abstinence ("Let's Wait Awhile") and weekend ho shit-based adventures ("Escapade"). And elsewhere, betrayal and bondage and emancipation and funky big bands.

So what to expect from Unbreakable?

http://www.soulbounce.com/soul/2015/08/expecting-the-unexpected-from-janet-jacksons-unbreakable/

 

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