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"Feedback" Debuts On MTV's TRL!
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^thank you for backing me up!
look, the bottom line is, i dont want to hate janet because i have some very fond memories of her older albums but i just hate who she's become, and going by sales stats, most other people are on board w/ me. i'm sick (almost literally) of hearing albums from her that make it sound like she couldn't wait to leave the recording studio fast enough to get back to bed. she needs to get other hobbies...like making legit music again.
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^ok then, if you say so. i didn't "hate" janet until Damita Jo. anyone who still likes/defends her is wrong. she has sabotaged all of her legacy pre-2002 to become the total ***** she is today. i'm sorry if that's rude, but anyone who seriously defends her music as being good needs to be committed. i still hear some shred of dignity left in her when she does interviews, but her songs make me realize what a waste she's become. she needs to move out of the spotlight if she's not going to clean up her act or at least WOW us w/ something worth listening to!
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To say that someone is wrong for defending her is wrong! You are a hypocrite! Madonna and many other artists out today do everything in their power to sell sex! Not everyone is Sheryl Crow! She was sabatoged by the superbowl incident because after that the media just wanted to bring her down. Make her lose credibility along with her brother Michael. The only thing that was over-whorish was her posing topless so much during the 20 Y.O. era. But even then I think she was just trying to prove that she is not ashamed of her body andd is not sorry about nipplegate. I think that you need to be committed because this situation is not even that serious! Her songs from her last albums are not bad, but their not her best. Like everyone, not all will sound good all the time. It's not like her music from the past 5 years was downright bad. The sales were, but the music was solid at best. You act like she recorded a William Hung type album! She has cleaned up her act! All of her new promos she remains keeping her sexy image while covered up and her new "Feedback" song is hot! I just hate that she used the "n" word in it.
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Lol Janet is a nearing grandma age who obviously needs sex in her life. JD ain't hittin it right apparantly...Anyways "Discipline" sounds like the continuum of Janet wanting someone to do something to her *****. I'm gonna buy the album to be surprised and won't download it, but I'm afraid. "Feedback" is still hot though.
MiMi on the other hand is miles better than Janet, and obviously That Chick will be miles better than Discipline. While JJ, tho I love the girl, will continue moaning, whispering, and trying to fit back in, Mariah will continue to be her old classic self. She overshadowed her at the listening party, she'll do it single/sales wise. I can guarantee you Mariah will get more attention. The critics will praise "TH", and give okay reviews of "Discipline".
And please stop calling Janet's a comeback. "20 Y.O." was just released a year and 4 months ago.
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DEAD @ bobbymfw, my new favorite poster on ATRL...... SPEAK THE TRUTH & SHAME THE DEVIL!!!
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bobby is actually dead on right now about Janet...her lyrics are trashy and she's a one trick pony lately. She brings nothing interesting to the table.
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Originally posted by bobbymfw
Prince, Peaches, Madonna, George Michael, Liz Phair are just a few of the names i can think of. These people actually know how to write good sex songs. Any horny 15-year old in America can basically do what Janet is doing. Please wake up out of your blind faith for janet and realize how trashy she's become. i apologize for using Blackout as an example. as for Beyonce, she knows where the line is and doesn't cross it repeatedly the way janet does. theres a difference between sexy and sexual. janet is beyond sexual actually, she's quite repulsive these days. I liked All For You btw and IMO that's her last good album, but it also foreshadowed the 2 crappy albums that followed.
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and like Janet doesn't? funny how times flyies,some day is tonight, any time any place, rope burn, which proves my point again her albums aren't entirly about sex she's always had one or two sex songs on her albums from day 1. so why do they get pass again?
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bobby is actually dead on right now about Janet...her lyrics are trashy and she's a one trick pony lately. She brings nothing interesting to the table.
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lmaof and what exaclty is Mariah going to bring to the table? eom pt 2? and that wasn't even criticaly acclamied album especially if you look at the reviews before the cd blew up, Mariah is commerical that's exactly why she sales but as far as artisitc , and out side the box . nope . so I don't see her doing anything special either
another thing I find it interesting that Mairah's naked on her album and nobody is saying anything about, so does that make her a ***** and trashy too? and I am not even going to talk about the way she dresses,
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Originally posted by TRL Girl
To say that someone is wrong for defending her is wrong! You are a hypocrite! Madonna and many other artists out today do everything in their power to sell sex! Not everyone is Sheryl Crow! She was sabatoged by the superbowl incident because after that the media just wanted to bring her down. Make her lose credibility along with her brother Michael. The only thing that was over-whorish was her posing topless so much during the 20 Y.O. era. But even then I think she was just trying to prove that she is not ashamed of her body andd is not sorry about nipplegate. I think that you need to be committed because this situation is not even that serious! Her songs from her last albums are not bad, but their not her best. Like everyone, not all will sound good all the time. It's not like her music from the past 5 years was downright bad. The sales were, but the music was solid at best. You act like she recorded a William Hung type album! She has cleaned up her act! All of her new promos she remains keeping her sexy image while covered up and her new "Feedback" song is hot! I just hate that she used the "n" word in it.
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100% co sign, but I think her weight loss was also a reason why she was taking pics like that for 20 Yo, I remember before 20 yo everyone was saying how Janet was never going to lose the weight, and when that Us weekly cover came out it kind of shut everybody up, and the press started focusing more on her body, so she ran with it.
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Wow! I'm too lazy to read those conversations.
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NEW REVIEW from the london listening party held by L.A. Reid
I’VE had a sneak peek at two of this year’s biggest albums, Janet Jackson’s Discipline and That Chick by Mariah Carey.
I can reveal that Janet, 41, kicks out the slow jams in favour of club bangers on her strongest and most varied collection in donkey’s years.
Destiny’s Child producer Rodney Jerkins, 30, is the man behind the standout cuts. Sweet, synth heavy lead-off track Love Love Love is the musical equivalent of Fruit Pastels while buzzy hook fest Feedback is the girl’s best single in a decade.
Elsewhere the deliciously Stevie Wonder-ish This Can’t Be Good highlights Janet’s whisper-quiet vocal texture, while Tonight sounds like a future No 1.
Only the super sexy (or plain filthy) title track, a ballad penned by Ne-Yo, 26, misses the mark.
As for Mariah it’s more of the same from the world’s biggest-selling recording artist.
If anything there’s less schmaltz this time as the Long Island babe concentrates on blowing bass bins.
The brassy Lovin’ You Long Time’s riff gets more uplifting by the second while Mariah, 37, does a mean R Kelly impersonation on Touch My Body.
Pick of the bunch is the Janet-like title track That Chick, with its “taste me, gotta flavour like ice cream” hook.
Janet’s Discipline drops February 25, Mariah’s That Chick follows on April 1.
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To the above comments, what is a Janet fan to say?
I'll let her success speak for itself. There's no need to engage opinions that are awaiting opposition. Your opinion is your opinion.
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Mariah Rolls With T-Pain, Dupri On New Album
January 18, 2008, 1:05 PM ET
Mark Sutherland, London
Mariah Carey has set an April 1 release date for the follow-up to her mega-selling album "The Emancipation of Mimi," which was the biggest selling album of 2005. Dubbed "That Chick," the set features production from Jermaine Dupri, will.i.am and Rodney Jerkins, plus collaborations with the likes of T-Pain and Damian Marley.
The album veers between breezy pop tunes like "Lovin' You Long Time" and the title track, ballads like "Love Story" and urban club bangers like the standout "Migrate."
The latter features T-Pain in a guest slot, providing the counterpoint to Carey's anthemic "single girls on the town" lyrics with the killer line: "Don't wait for me to buy drinks, or you're going to dehydrate."
Other highlights include the frisky R&B of "Touch My Body," with Carey cooing, "If there's a camera up in here then I best not catch this flick on YouTube," and the catchy "OOC" -- short for "out of control." There's also a new sound for Carey on "Cruise Control," which features Marley and sees the artist try her hand at Jamaican patois.
"It's kind of strange but I heard a lot of her records and it sound like the album is better than the last album," Dupri recently told Billboard.
Additional reporting by Clover Hope
Here is the track list for "That Chick":
"Lovin' You Long Time"
"Touch My Body"
"That Chick"
"Thanx for Nothin'"
"For the Record"
"Migrate"
"Cruise Control"
"Love Story"
"OOC"
"Bye Bye"
Source: Billboard.com
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They keep talking about Mariah's patois. I want to hear this!
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LMAO at the Mariah photoshopped pictures. The album cover is fake! I fear this album won't be as good as TEOM! And only 10 song is not good AT ALL
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Janet - Discipline 02.26.08 / Mariah - That Chick 04.01.08
February 26, 2008-------------------April 1, 2008
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I still think (and hope) that that Mariah cover is fake
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^ Janet's cover is WORSE than Mariah's.
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Janet's face is so
She looks like a ****ing tranny.
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To the above comments, what is a Janet fan to say?
I'll let her success speak for itself. There's no need to engage opinions that are awaiting opposition. Your opinion is your opinion.
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If Discipline turns out to be an awesome album, I will swallow my pride, apologize, and admit it!
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i think the album cover is to stay. i've never seem the picture tho it looks like her old stuff.
And again, not to discourage Janet fans, but as you can see Mariah is more interesting.
shortstuff, hush please. whether TEOM was critically praised or not, it still sold. And you say she's only selling cause she's commercial? Well I can say for now you sure as hell wouldn't be saying the same thing if Janet could sell 6m albums at this time.
And to quickly say Janet will have success is going too far. People are slowly forgetting about her, unfortunately.
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