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"Feedback" Debuts On MTV's TRL!
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"Feedback" Debuts On MTV's TRL!
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Janet and Mariah - First listen!
Janet - Discipline
So, Def Jam were showing off the two female jewels in their crown today with playbacks of the new Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey albums.
Label Boss Antonio "LA" Reid seemed very excited about both of them, although that is his job, and mentioned plans for six singles from Mariah's That Chick, which hits the stores in April.
First up, though, was Janet's Discipline. If you've heard the single, Feedback, you'll have a pretty good idea of what to expect from the album. It's crisp, danceable R&B lavished with Janet's trademark velvet harmonies.
The stand-out track was probably Tonight, a bubbling club track which can only be Jackson's response to Rihanna's Don't Stop The Music. Reid mentioned that some of the tracks weren't finished - and this one sounded like it was missing a sample somewhere in the mix. Once that's added, this could be Janet's biggest dance success since Together Again.
Love, Love, Love and This Can't Be Good saw the lyrical return of the sweet singer who first raised her head on Let's Wait Awhile - all coy and bashful while falling head over heels in love.
But the sleazy siren of 20 YO is also present. Title track Discipline is a gruseome plea for fetishistic S&M sex - with Janet referring to her lover as "Daddy" while asking to be tied up and disciplined. Given that her father is a well-documented control freak who used to beat his kids, this is more than a little uncomfortable.
Speaking of family connections, there's long been a rumour that Janet and Michael will team up again (as they did on 1996's Scream) this year. Well, nothing I heard today confirms that rumour - but there is a track called Rock With You that appears to sample the single of the same name from Off The Wall. Could the finished version feature guest vocals by the former King of Pop? I genuinely hope not.
The remaining two tracks, Rollercoaster and Greatest Ex Ever, didn't really set my world alight - but you never know what'll happen on repeated listens.
The main thing seems to be that Janet is back on form, vocally and lyrically. The record is very safe and commercial, although I'm not sure where they'll go for the third single (Tonight surely has to be the second). But as a first step towards career rehabilitation Def Jam have made a strong play for their newest diva.
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Mariah Carey - That Chick
Their old diva (in terms of contract, not age, of course) is Mariah, who is riding high after the 7xPlatinum-selling Emancipation Of Mimi.
We got to hear 10 tracks from the follow-up, That Chick, which I have to say sounded more polished and commercial than Janet's effort.
One track in particular is set to make big bucks, and that's Bye Bye - a torch song for people "who lost they grandmothers". I guarantee that Simon Cowell will be sick of hearing badly-realised auditions of it by the end of the year.
Lyrics were never Carey's strong point, mind you, so her paean to loss is summed up with not-very-insightful Hallmark platitudes like "I'd give the world to see your face" and "Life goes on". Profound, eh?
Still, at least it's better than when she desperately attempts to prove how bang up to date she is. In Touch My Body, she purrs to her lover: "If there's a camera up in here then I best not catch this flick on youtube (youtube)". Not exactly the sexiest boudoir come-on you've ever heard, is it?
But there are plenty of good tunes to counter the awesomely bad lyrics. Migrate, about a night out with Mariah while she wears jeans ("yeah, they fit", she informs us) is sure to be a candidate for heavy MTV rotation, although I hope to god they excise T-Pain's hopelessly strained vocals. Lovin' You Long Time, meanwhile, is a strutting uptempo number very much in the style of It's Like That.
So, what have we learnt from this listening "event"? Well, I wasn't overwhelmed by the music - despite (or perhaps because of) the fact it was played so ear-splittingly loud that it felt like I was being punched repeatedly in the ears by a cyberman. Both artists have turned in a tuneful, competent set of R&B songs, but I'm not sure that any of them have the charisma or vitality to compete with the Rihannas and Beyonces of this world.
Both albums: 6/10 (scores may go up or down after further listens at levels tolerable to the human ear).
Source: DiscoPop UK
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Rumored Mariah album cover...
Only a 6/10??????
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Originally posted by UpNeedsDown
Only a 6/10??????
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which is a good note
seeing he is NOT a fan, he is A professionnal and his review is interesting
you forgot the new picture, potentially the cover for her new album called "THAT CHICK":
beautiful !!
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I bought TEOM, but this new album just sounds stupid right down to the title. As for Janet, I already gave up on her years ago.
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OMFG!!! What is up with Mariah in thqat picture? She looks ATROCIOUS, fat, unconfortable, totally wrong.
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Originally posted by bobbymfw
I bought TEOM, but this new album just sounds stupid right down to the title. As for Janet, I already gave up on her years ago.
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Yeah, Mimi has her moments of bliss every now and then.
Janet never was good really.
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I am pretty confident about Mimi's project, hate was expected after such a big album. Hope media don't kill it like Clarkson's. Anyways, seems pretty commercial, and she's good at it. Mariah = Legend. Indeed.
About Damito Jo, oh well, so far I just like 2 songs of her, including 'Feedback', do the numbers.
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Originally posted by Alexz
Yeah, Mimi has her moments of bliss every now and then.
Janet never was good really.
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control + rn1814 + janet were huge success
7 singles from rhythm nation went in the TOP 5 at the billboard charts including 3 number one songs.
that is a record yet unbroken by any artist.
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I wasn't sure if that picture was new or not. I don't like it at all. The whole naked thing is not NEW.
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^Who cares? I like that pic, is very Mimi's style.
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Originally posted by blogvibes
control + rn1814 + janet were huge success
7 singles from rhythm nation went in the TOP 5 at the billboard charts including 3 number one songs.
that is a record yet unbroken by any artist.
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She wasn't good anyway.
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I'm sure if Feedback is any foreshadow to Discipline, the album will be good. I'm actually interested to hear a finished version of Tonight, now that I'm so hooked on DSTM.
Mariah - well, I'll have to hear a few leaks to really get an opinion, but that picture is horrendous.
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I wasn't sure if that picture was new or not. I don't like it at all. The whole naked thing is not NEW.
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no but it's artistic.
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I like Mariah's music, but the picture is just blah. I really hope that's not the album cover.
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no but it's artistic.
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I don't see the art  It looks like she was in the studio, they asked her to strip naked for a second, take her hat off to cover her bits, and snapped a photo.
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Cuz the raters were credible sources? "That Chick" is the name of her album?
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wow so much criticism for mimi already 
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Originally posted by blogvibes
control + rn1814 + janet were huge success
7 singles from rhythm nation went in the TOP 5 at the billboard charts including 3 number one songs.
that is a record yet unbroken by any artist.
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LMAO, so what? Just because she has hit albums everyone has to think she was/is good? 
Anywayz, hope both will be successful, but I guess it's pretty obvious Mariah will do better than Janet, unless her first single is completely ****, which I doubt.
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That Chick?
They need to seriously change the album name. She needs to go back to the Butterflies and Rainbows ****...
Hope that's not the cover either
At least change the title?
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Does Mariah really want to be refered to as "that chick"? She doesn't seem like "that chick".
Janet having her own DSTM-type song 
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i like 
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