badujunkie said:

Why am I the least excited for this project than I have ever been for JJ. And it's been the longest break. I really hope this one is even as loveable as her last 3.

I dont know but me too! I hope the album and tour excite me as well.

seeing madonna Rebel heart tour on youtube got me listening to the album again

purplethunder3121 said:

Yes!!

paisleypark4 said:

badujunkie said:

Why am I the least excited for this project than I have ever been for JJ. And it's been the longest break. I really hope this one is even as loveable as her last 3.

I must admit, while i'm pleased overall with the roll out, the success of No Sleep, i was kind of underwhelmed by Burn It Up on first listen after i convinced myself to finally peep it. I haven't listened again, but all the chatter had me expecting to LOVE it INSTANTLY like when I first heard All Nite (Don't Stop). Anywho, I'm still excited and will cop the project for sure but if BIU was supposed to be a "major highlight" so far, it isn't for me

purplethunder3121 said:

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I swear this is one of her all-time best portraits. I wish this was the album cover!

datdude said:

paisleypark4 said:

I must admit, while i'm pleased overall with the roll out, the success of No Sleep, i was kind of underwhelmed by Burn It Up on first listen after i convinced myself to finally peep it. I haven't listened again, but all the chatter had me expecting to LOVE it INSTANTLY like when I first heard All Nite (Don't Stop). Anywho, I'm still excited and will cop the project for sure but if BIU was supposed to be a "major highlight" so far, it isn't for me

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I think the fans kind of made it a "highlight" because they were eager to hear something to dance to from her. Frankly speaking, team Janet seemed poised to release, "The Great Forever" a few weeks ago when they released the snippet. It got mixed reviews from what I can tell.

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"Burnitup!" is probably the most radio/club friendly "dance" tune that we've heard so far out of the four new songs. It will be interesting to hear what that DJ Naughty Boy does with it for the remix. I think I like, "After The Fall" the least out of the bunch.

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I wonder which song is dedicated to her brother Michael or if the whole album is dedicated to him. Who knows...I figured she would be ready to write about that now being that she's had more time to digest it all.

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purplethunder3121 said:

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I swear this is one of her all-time best portraits. I wish this was the album cover!

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Kind of like me with the Damita Jo cover, I loved that smiling shot from the insert.

Musicslave said:

Cinny said:

I swear this is one of her all-time best portraits. I wish this was the album cover!

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Kind of like me with the Damita Jo cover, I loved that smiling shot from the insert.

I know the one!

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Guess I'll get the Target CD before the "official" one...

the album briefly leaked today but her team was able to shut it down quickly. a fan got hold of a copy from a small record store somewhere so im sure it will leak before friday, im not gonna listen to anything until i get my copy.

getxxxx said:

I wonder if she can make to Friday without the album being leaked. Not the deliberate kind that lame record labels do to generate interest.

DAV123 said:

getxxxx said:

Finally listened to BIU my observation theres a quick throwback to Miss You Much and You Need Me in the beginning. The track is VERY Ballroom Community Vogue Music with the BALLROOM CHANTS. It sounds so much better when play over big speakers.

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Laid Back ..... White Horse ....is that the sample I hear? Oh and I can just hear the chanting with the ballroom queens, they are going to pounce on every inch of this track 😜 [Edited 9/28/15 19:43pm]

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Yeah, I heard "White Horse" as soon as the beat drop. I guess we'll soon see if our hunch is correct or not when we look at the album credits.

Cinny said:

Musicslave said:

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Kind of like me with the Damita Jo cover, I loved that smiling shot from the insert.

I know the one!

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I wonder if they'll have a nice surprise as in a new video....I doubt it but maybe.

Musicslave said:

I wonder if she can make to Friday without the album being leaked. Not the deliberate kind that lame record labels do to generate interest.

Janet's team shut that leak down hard. No matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find it. Just gonna have to wait for the CD. P.S. I already bought it before I looked on-line.

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lowkey said:

the album briefly leaked today but her team was able to shut it down quickly. a fan got hold of a copy from a small record store somewhere so im sure it will leak before friday, im not gonna listen to anything until i get my copy.

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Word? Not surprised. That's the disadvantage of having to ship CD's to brick and mortar stores.

purplethunder3121 said:

Musicslave said:

I wonder if she can make to Friday without the album being leaked. Not the deliberate kind that lame record labels do to generate interest.

Janet's team shut that leak down hard. No matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find it. Just gonna have to wait for the CD.

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She's worth it.

fans are starting to get their copies from the pre-order (mine has been shipped). there is a thread discussing the cd on jnaet.club. im happy to see the fans favorite tracks being different from the songs we've heard so far.

getxxxx said:

My pre-sale copy has shipped too. I'm on pins and needles

First review in Wall Street Journal:

ENLARGE

Janet Jackson’s new album, ‘Unbreakable,’ is out Friday. PHOTO: R. CHIANG/SPLASH NEWS/CORBIS

By

JIM FUSILLI

Sept. 29, 2015 5:59 p.m. ET

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Tampa, Fla.

At this stage of her career, Janet Jackson faces the daunting task of regaining her place as an artist of the moment rather than of the recent past. She is staking her claim on today with a new album, “Unbreakable” (Rhythm Nation), out Friday, and a lengthy world tour that runs well into 2016. On disc and in concert, the 49-year-old Ms. Jackson proves her significant talent remains undiminished.

“Unbreakable” is Ms. Jackson’s first album of new material since “Discipline,” which was released in 2008. On that recording, she employed a cavalcade of producers who shifted the focus from Ms. Jackson’s voice to the arrangements. It launched strong, but faded quickly and generated only one top 20 hit single, a meager result for a Janet Jackson album. To stave off a continuing decline, Ms. Jackson responded by dropping her record label, starting one of her own and reuniting with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who had a hand in most of her pre-“Discipline” recordings and helped her transition from teen star to R&B goddess.

The marketplace can be harsh for women of a certain age who once topped the charts—see Mariah Carey and Shania Twain, who were Ms. Jackson’s peers in popularity in the late 20th century—especially if they seek to continue to create new music, rather than willingly enter the prison of the past. How well Janet Jackson circa 2015-16 succeeds commercially may well depend on whether her fans and followers of contemporary R&B and dance music are interested in new songs from one of the most successful recording artists of the ’80s and ’90s.

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“Unbreakable” makes the wise choice of returning Ms. Jackson to appealingly familiar settings without ignoring today’s pop tropes, including the clichés. The hot dance track “Burn It Up!” kicks off with a rap by Missy Elliott, while the slow jam “No Sleeep” features rapper J. Cole. (Ms. Jackson giggles when Mr. Cole proposes a “friends with benefits” relationship.) “Shoulda Known Better,” which opens as a ballad, borrows EDM beats for its underpinning.

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For the most part, though, Ms. Jackson and the producers explore a satisfying range of musical styles plucked from across the span of pop history. Her voice rides atop funk keyboards and a synth bass in “Night,” a swirling sizzler begging for a dance-club remix. A sweet tune that ends too soon, “Dream Maker/Euphoria” taps into Philadelphia-style soul of the early ’70s. “Dammn Baby” and “The Great Forever” present two interpretations of the classic Jackson sound: In the former, Ms. Jackson sings above percolating bass lines that evoke, albeit in a less strident version, the effervescence of her late-’80s recordings. In “The Great Forever,” a gauzy mid-tempo funk environment permits Ms. Jackson to sing and phrase much as her brother Michael did. The effect is both a tribute to him and a reminder of their shared heritage as exemplars of soul.

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On Thursday at a concert here at the Amalie Arena, Ms. Jackson gave prominent placement to her new material, eagerly juxtaposing it with earlier hits. With a video of J. Cole projected on white curtains streaming from the rafters, “No Sleeep” bled into “Got ’Til It’s Gone,” a similar cool burner that appeared on Ms. Jackson’s 1997 album “The Velvet Rope.” After intermission, she came downstage, perched on a stool and offered a series of her romantic ballads, the highlight of which was a gorgeous rendition of “After You Fall” from the new album. The ballads revealed the strength of her voice, which doesn’t need studio polishing to convey tender emotions.

Ms. Jackson has had so many top hits that to perform most of them required medleys of truncated versions: Dancing along in a whirlwind with her nine-member troupe, she squeezed 14 up-tempo songs into a 30-minute whip-snap opening set. The evening leaped into a higher gear with “All for You” and the extra-funky “All Nite (Don’t Stop),” both from early 21st-century albums. She pulled the past forward with a polyrhythmic, house-like “Throb” and revived her rock-funk hybrid with “Black Cat” and “Scream,” the latter featuring her brother Michael’s recorded voice.

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By the time she closed the evening with the new “Shoulda Known Better” and the “Unbreakable” title track, which was sweetened by the harmonies of her three backup singers, Ms. Jackson had already established a flawless bridge across the decades. Her new music adds to her already rich musical legacy and should sweep her into a new, relevant future.

Can't wait! Heard some snippets, and they sound great. SEARCHING...

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