From a user at Pulse Music Board who "attended a pre-release listening session and [will] write a review for local magazine".
O.M.G.
Here are my notes...I signed an agreement that I won't share any confidential information which includes "descriptions of recordings" so I won't mention specific tracks here... BUT you can try to guess them.
First of all, she touches almost ALL GENRES possible on this album. It sounds very unique for a Janet album but mostly pop. There are less r&b tracks than I thought. Ballads are smooth, one song that goes "Who's gonna be there after it all? / I will" is purely a piano ballad. And a lovely one.
It's not sexy album, it's a happy album. One song is gloriously EDM "I had a great epiphany / Rhythm Nation was that dream". Another dance track (with one word title) will sound tremendous when remixed. Pure dancefloor bliss.
Thematically it's closest to Rhythm Nation as a whole. There are songs that are classic soul. One song in the album declares: "I've seen a beautiful vision / What we can create"... it's like Heal the World gone smooth soul. The song after that sounds like a Jackson 5 song in the new millennium.
The heart of the album is probably the time when she whispers over a mysterious beat: "You never know, unless you've been there".
No Sleeep is definitely a highlight there too.
Fabulous stuff, very versatile. Artistically ambitious.
It starts with Unbreakable and three upbeat tracks after that, as usual (I think she has had the same concept since Damita Jo)
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