Her seventh album, "All For You", was released on April 16, 2001 by Virgin Records. Her last commercially successful album, the album's upbeat tone was a huge contrast to the dark tone her previous album had, "The Velvet Rope". Conceived after her secret marriage ended to Rene Elizondo Jr., this album touches on a lot of subjects, including sex, betrayal, romance, and passion. The album opened with first week sales of 605,000 in the United States, the second highest first week sales by a female artist at the time and is considered by many to be the greatest album of her career.
THE SINGLES
The album's lead single, "Doesn't Really Matter", was also released on the soundtrack of "The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps". The song was an instant worldwide smash, hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making Janet the first female artist to have a #1 hit in three separate decades.
The album's second single, "All For You" was another instantaneous hit for Janet. It was #1 on the Hot 100 for seven weeks, making it the biggest hit of 2001. It was also the first song to be added to every pop, urban, and rhythmic station within its first week of release.
"Someone to Call My Lover" peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 and was praised for its fun nature, as well as its inclusion of the "Ventura Highway" sample.
Despite the album's success, the promotional campaign prematurely ended as her record label was suffering financial losses at the time. "Come on Get Up" was released as a promotional single in Japan, and "Son of A Gun" was a US Top 20 hit.
THE ACCLAIM, LEGACY, AND IMPACT
"Just as fresh, familiar and appealing as you've come to expect from Jackson, and that's no small achievement."
-Rolling Stone
"All for You as a whole makes for fun listening. Bouncing from orgiastic sex music to bubble gum pop music to soulful ballads, the album contains a true range of music... At any rate, bubble gum pop, easy as it comes, gets a twist with Janet, elegantly escorted with acoustic guitars and the whole gamut of computerized yet natural-sounding instrumentals. Perhaps what sells the album, more than the songs, is Janet’s voice and her innovative (and frankly, courageous) use of beats and harmonies. Janet’s voice is as pristine as ever, and, never outshined... she overpowers every track."
-The Tech
"Alluring, easily enveloping the listener. . .This is her sexiest-sounding record, thanks to Jam and Lewis' silky groove and her breathy delivery, two things that make the record palatable."
-AllMusic
"Jackson has written a 14-song manual that explains not only how you can please her, but lists the rewards in store for those who manage the task... While Mothers Against Everything will be appalled by Janet’s dirty pillow talk, many adult ears will find it very sexy, wrapped around the listenable Lewis/Jam beats."
-The New York Post
"The most influential albums to be released since 2000. . .set[s] the tone for much of what we’re hearing on the radio from current female pop stars. Anything Rihanna, Beyoncé and Britney are doing right now, was heard on this album. . .She sang about female empowerment, even though hers is a voice that is lightweight, and it demanded that you take listen to it."
"Pop Lolitas-of-the-week may come and go, but this Jackson, it seems, is forever."
Feels So Right was actually a very early song created. Janet wrote this as well as Doesn't Really Matter for the Nutty Professor 2 soundtrack and presented them both to the producer and he chose Doesn't Really Matter. So she was initially gonna throw Feels So Right away, then decided to include it at the last minute once All For You was completed.
It was the lead single. Doesn't Really Matter was released specifically for Nutty Professor 2 a year prior. She decided to just tack it on All For You because it was successful and went well with the rest of the album. But All For You the song is what launched the album.
The ICON performance of All For You is indeed one of her best.
I love the album. It was such a colorful and happy era – something we haven't seen since then. Someone To Call My Lover and Truth are some of her best songs ever. To think that she united samples of Classical and Country music in a song and took it to the top of World charts, Janet, Jimmy and Terry are geniuses!
You tell them, Carlie
See Janet and me we have clouds, yes we have our clouds
(Ahh)
So many and so many great formations, who's this song about?
Don't hurt him now
Hallucinations
(Ha, ha, ha)
Clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee
You tell them, Carlie