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Mr. Wonder

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  1. I like how she looks from the neck down.
  2. I watched/skimmed through the whole show. Probably her best show in quite a few years. And it's clear, costume and wardrobe is a much needed element in her live performances going forward. Hopefully she recognizes this. But I think what's most important, is that we finally got at least something of a live performance of "Lonely". Hopefully we'll get the full performance on the tour, or at least a snippet. She's using more of her catalog, which is good. And she's still keeping the show contemporary by adding current songs, and also blending in classic ones ("I'm In Love" for R&BJ, for example). Really just a testament of how diverse and flexible her catalog is regardless of age, race, etc. Now, , we just need the single/album to follow. The documentary was a missed opportunity while she had media on her side. Hopefully she wont blow this chance too.
  3. The fact that we have all this tour footage, audio from different shows, but yet nothing official. And old girl on the left is off during the second verse.
  4. Slant: The 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time 29. 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 she took the reins of her professional life on her 1986 breakthrough, Control, 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.” Written and produced by one-time Prince keyboardist and Jam and 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. Cinquemani 24. 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. 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. https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/100-greatest-dance-songs/
  5. The account has a bunch of other performances from the show.
  6. She's doing Cincinnati in July, so the album should be here in a few months, single in a few weeks probably.
  7. All this attitude ain't necessary. And I already followed you.
  8. Finally got around to watching it. Wasn't as in depth as I thought it would be, we learned a few new things, but too many instances of being MJ jumping off points for happenings in her career and asking about how his life effected her. I need these ppl who produce these documentaries to understand something - we don't care about him. Stop wasting our time asking. It was nice to see all the footage that was stored away. I wonder if they had to pay Rene for it since it seemed he was the one who filmed everything (another thing we can thank him for). I feel like it skipped over the TVR - 20 YO eras a little too quickly. But overall, satisfied but it let a little too be desired.
  9. Tom Holland on Janet. Tom Holland was a dancer before he considered life as an actor. When he sat down for an interview with CNET, the Brit revealed the exact moment he decided on his career path. "I started dancing because of Janet Jackson," Holland said. "I don't actually know which song it was. But when I was a baby one of her songs used to send me into a dancing frenzy. My mom thought I had natural rhythm, so she was like, 'You should go to a dance class.'" He did just that, and his mother was proved right. Read More: https://www.looper.com/586519/biggest-tom-holland-moments-that-transformed-his-life/?utm_campaign=clip
  10. I watched the first part. Skipped right over all the nonsense and started with the Good Times segment.
  11. Her team really uploads videos that aren't in HD.
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