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Fan Base: Janet Jackson
Member Since: 1/16/2011
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We're vulnerable, we're sensitive
And we're complicated people too
So many people rolled into one
We contain so much
So much creativity
So much energy
So many contradictions
So much confusion
So much clarity
So many moments of faith and fear
So many different characters live within us
All looking for love
This is better than any lyrics on 50 YO or Discappointment 
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Member Since: 2/9/2008
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I like the LYDLM outro. I think the worst is after I Want You when she says she "always loved music."
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Member Since: 8/6/2015
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Originally posted by Auburn
We're vulnerable, we're sensitive
And we're complicated people too
So many people rolled into one
We contain so much
So much creativity
So much energy
So many contradictions
So much confusion
So much clarity
So many moments of faith and fear
So many different characters live within us
All looking for love
This is better than any lyrics on 50 YO or Discappointment |
Discappointment, that's funny, I've never heard it before  And you're right, it's a fantastic introduction.
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Originally posted by eli's_rhythm
I like the LYDLM outro. I think the worst is after I Want You when she says she "always loved music."
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She said it because she did always love music!
She and her siblings made up songs to which they did their chores and harmonized while they all did their part. Heck, they must have danced and sang their way through most anything!
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Member Since: 6/15/2012
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The worst on DJ for me is Thinkin Bout My Ex. Good placement in the tracklist though because it is the only song on the album that could actually make me look forward to enduring Warmth and Moist.
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Member Since: 2/9/2008
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Originally posted by Humoresque
She said it because she did always love music!
She and her siblings made up songs to which they did their chores and harmonized while they all did their part. Heck, they must have danced and sang their way through most anything!
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Sure, but so does everybody. It's just... so obvious that it's a waste of space and she sounds stupid saying it.
Wow, those almost sound like lyrics. You should be a ghost writer. 
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Member Since: 8/6/2015
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Originally posted by That Bad Eartha
The worst on DJ for me is Thinkin Bout My Ex. Good placement in the tracklist though because it is the only song on the album that could actually make me look forward to enduring Warmth and Moist.
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Every Time I hit Thinkin' Bout My Ex, I'm thinkin' "oh boy  here we go."  What a disappointment for a collaboration between Janet and Babyface. Things don't pick back up for me until SloLove. The confusion lifts, indeed.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 2,937
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Damita Jooooooooooooooo.......Thank you!
It's not bad only because it's funny as hell and it's from the Damita Jo song so I get it.
For me, "Magic Hour" and "The One" are the best interludes. I just wish that Truly and The One came right before Just a Little While. That would've been the perfect closer.
And Thinkin' Bout My Ex is on point! I like her vulnerable side when she sings.
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Member Since: 1/10/2011
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I'd rather have Could This Be Love on Damita Jo than Thinkin Bout My Ex.
I was kind of disappointed as well, because I've always wanted Janet and Babyface to work together. And that's the best he could do? No.
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Member Since: 6/3/2012
Posts: 3,187
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Originally posted by Humoresque
This gives me another idea. 
Name your favorite vocal moments in Janet's discography. |
I love the way she sings the verses in If
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Humoresque
Every Time I hit Thinkin' Bout My Ex, I'm thinkin' "oh boy here we go." What a disappointment for a collaboration between Janet and Babyface. Things don't pick back up for me until SloLove. The confusion lifts, indeed. |
You crack me up!
Between LYDLM, TBME, Warmth, Moist, and Truly, Moist is just the setback by a little, but I think the quality all the way through is great. I don't know about Strawberry Bounce though. Not my fav....
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Member Since: 8/6/2015
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Originally posted by kishi
I'd rather have Could This Be Love on Damita Jo than Thinkin Bout My Ex.
I was kind of disappointed as well, because I've always wanted Janet and Babyface to work together. And that's the best he could do? No.
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I agree re: Could This Be Love. AND Put Your Hands Up. How that groove was left on the cutting room floor...
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Originally posted by T.O.A.D.S.
I love the way she sings the verses in If
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Oh, look who it is! Long time, no see! 
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Originally posted by jdmc218
You crack me up!
Between TBME, Warmth, Moist, and Truly, Moist is just the setback by a little, but I think the quality all the way through is great. I don't know about Strawberry Bounce though. Not my fav.... |
It is a strong album. And I love that this Base generally agrees on it being superior to All For You as a whole effort. Imagine the best of those two put together. All For You's dynamite singles and edgier tracks, Damita Jo's colorful-yet-mellow R&B palette, baby you got a stew goin'!!
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Member Since: 1/10/2011
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Originally posted by Humoresque
This gives me another idea.
Name your favorite vocal moments in Janet's discography. |
Young Love
He Doesn't Know I'm Alive
The Pleasure Principle
Miss You Much
Lonely
If
This Time
Any Time Any Place
Where Are You Now
Twenty Foreplay
Together Again
Empty *loooooove her voice on this*
All For You
China Love
Sexhibition
With U
Enjoy
Take Care
Can't B Good
Unbreakable
The Great Forever
No Sleeep
Well Traveled
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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I have such mixed feelings about You Ain't Right, especially starting off the album. At first listen, I'm like "Janet, what the hell is this?!", then later I got used to it, but idk....
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Member Since: 1/10/2011
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Originally posted by jdmc218
I have such mixed feelings about You Ain't Right, especially starting off the album. At first listen, I'm like "Janet, what the hell is this?!", then later I got used to it, but idk....
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I never liked that song. Same goes for Come On Get Up. Now they sound super dated.
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Member Since: 3/2/2014
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Originally posted by Aerosol
I'm sorry, but Dammn Baby is lowkey her pandering to the children when everything else about Unbreakable was the opposite of that. Like, I think it's cute, but it should never be recognized as the best of anything, especially not the best of an album where Janet really reclaimed her status as an artist of quality songmaking.
The vocal production is tragic, which is especially apparent when listening to that remix that does away with the awful layering that makes the original version unintelligible. Jam and Lewis are her best collaborators, but they also ruined some **** on occasion.
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Originally posted by Humoresque
For me, Dammn Baby is a great bridge between the melodic super-hooks of Janet's heyday and contemporary music. It's fresh but doesn't sound like it's trying too hard. Not to my ears, anyway. My only concern with the song is the vocal production, like you said. Oh to have stems.  |
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Originally posted by That Bad Eartha
Yeah, I never got the Dammn Baby hype either. It and BURNITUP are easily the weakest links of Unbreakable to me. Still cute, but nothing special
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Originally posted by HonourableVomit
Damen Baby was my first deletion from UB.  |
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Originally posted by eli's_rhythm
Completely agree, but I "get" the vocals. @Aerosol I think the song is supposed to be a big wink because she's talking about shaking the room and maintaining her ID whole hopping on trends. I like what it represents and it's super fun.
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Originally posted by jdmc218
Yes. Dammn Baby doesn't really sound like the overall production of the album, but I think that's what they do as a treat to us. Sometimes they want something on the album that can have commercial appeal to the GP.
Perfect example. Honey, Fantasy, and Obsessed (Mariah). Hardly sound like the overall quality of the album, but we still love it, and they're BOPS. Dammn Baby is the same.
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Yall must be 40 years or older.
DAMMN BABY >> that mess she released in 2006.
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Member Since: 3/2/2014
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And her best vocal performance of her career is TRUST A TRY
Those squeals in Rhythm Nation don't count 
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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Together Again the Deeper Remix > the original
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Member Since: 8/27/2011
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Originally posted by Buyonce1814
Together Again the Deeper Remix > the original
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Someone doesn't get out the clubs much.
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Member Since: 6/3/2012
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Originally posted by Humoresque
Oh, look who it is! Long time, no see!
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Nice to see you too sis! Still got that flawless taste I see
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Member Since: 2/9/2008
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Originally posted by HonourableVomit
Someone doesn't get out the clubs much.
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TA DJ Premier mix > original.
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