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Mariah/Janet/Madonna : Who has the superior discography? Who has the best discography and tell me your reasons why. | |
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That's like asking do you Love your Child more than you love your Dog......Mimi, Madge & Ms. Jackson are three of the most influential Chicks in Music History... | |
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Chancellor said: That's like asking do you Love your Child more than you love your Dog.. I do not think that this is a difficult question for an answer for a normal adequate person. Madonna, of course ... with a big, huge margin | |
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No contest. Madonna by a landslide. Janet put out some good albums too, but not nearly as many as Madge. Mariah .....only liked her first one. | |
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Hands down: Madonna. I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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1. 80's Madonna. 2. Janet Control and Rhythm Nation. | |
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Janet. She paved the path for many other artists and her canon has been pro-black since the very beginning. full lips, freckles, and upturned nose | |
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Janet of course. Madonna second for the artistry into her songs and performances.
Mariah last. She doesnt have any entertainment value to her songs, howeevr she is a very strong songwriter Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Madonna has a lot of strong singles. But her albums as full never really did it for me, except for Like a Prayer. Janet made less albums, but Control till All for U (and Unbreakable) were all amazing albums. For me every song on those albums rock. Mariah made a good first album, after that a few ok songs, but nothing amazing.
I would say Janet first, with Madonna for singles a second for her singles. I mean Borderline, Papa don't preach, Music and Vogue are really classics. But I do like Mariah's reality show. | |
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It's a tough call, so I'll address each one separately.
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Mimi. Her earlier albums are superior because they are of great substance. When she broke away from Tommy, the substance started to fade. Janet and Madonna have some good albums in their catalogs. I really can't say they were of any substance, though. Maybe Janet's "Rhythm Nation". Janet had good dance music and so did Madonna early on. But, Janet's albums and the Madonna albums that I liked in the 80's were all purely for entertainment purposes for me. When I want to "feel" something, when I want to be moved, I don't go for anything in Madonna's or Janet's discography. But, I will go to some of Mimi's music. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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Madonna.
The thing that I like about her catalog is....throughout most of her career,she really grew and evolved with each new album.She didn't stick with the same producers/collaborators.Like A Prayer is a wonderful album,but she quickly moved on (artistically) and didn't continue with that "sound".And of course,Ray Of Light was totally unlike anything she had done previously.I even love much of her recent albums,like Confessions On A Dancefloor and her most recent one Rebel Heart.
To me,Mariah Carey just makes the same album over and over again.As an artist,she's never done anything bold or challenging.As for Janet,I do like Control and Rhythm Nation but I lost interest in her after that.Both of these ladies never really venture too far from their R&B comfort zone,so I don't really find their catalogs as interesting as Madonna's.
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It's not fair for me to say it, because i haven't listened to Janet's music, the same with Carey besides TEOM and some singles. With Madonna is the other way around, i love her music is interesting and a great experience. Specially the end of the 80's with Like A Prayer up to 2005; her most interesting phase. She has grown through the years; her lyrics, her sound, her image. We found Madonna in her best singing ballads, when she is in her most vulnerable and more introspective or personal. | |
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janet by far,way more diverse. she gave me r&b,pop,hiphop,neo soul,rock,lite fm rock,dance,funk,new jack swing, touched on so many subjects and always took time between albums.
i only like madonna's 80s albums. she made some great pop music but i need more variety.
i only liked a few mariah singles, i cant name which albums they are from. | |
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I f you want to listen veriety from Madonna, go through her 90's up to 2005; that's when you will find the most veriety from her music. | |
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Thats understandable. Mariah's album catalogue is not as endearing or entertaining as janet or madonna's, but Mariah Carey's songwriting and singing will make you feel something I agree.
Tracks like "The Wind", "Fly like A Bird", Camaflogue", "Can't Let Go", "Never Too Far", "Twister", "Outside" and even "Cry" are very touching and to the heart.
Janet and Madonna have made personal tracks like these but they are usually within something you can dance to as well like "What It Feel Like For A Girl", "Unapologetic Bitch" or "You Aint Right" and "Empty". Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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This is easy: Janet's music is more important in shaping how the industry sounds today. There are 4 albums from her which serves as the magna carta for female contemporary R&B female performers extending into pop(Control, RN1814, Velvet Rope and Janet).
Remember, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are pioneers, along with Prince, of the "Minnesota Sound" which gave birth to all kinds of movements and sub-genres musically and has a major influence on how Pop sounds today. That includes Madonna and most definitely Mariah. Mariah don't have a lane to drive in without Janet paving it. Janet don't get the respect and cred she deserves because of what happened at the Super Bowl Halftime Show but any unbias objective observer of the entertainment industry knows that what I am saying is true.
You can prefer whoever you want, but Janet wins and wins easily. | |
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Eh....I don't agree. She's more contemporary musically than Janet and Madonna, especially post Vision of Love days, when she was a pioneer of the rap-sung hybrid(start with Breakdown with Bones, Thugs and Harmony) and there is a concert dislike of anything but I would say that there is a lot of entertainment value to her songs and she easily has the best vocal arrangements/performances in her songs. They easily set her music apart, though Janet actually has great vocal arrangements too, especially her harmonic background vocals. | |
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No they are not! There are female entertainers that are way more influential than they are. The greatest Jazz and Blues entertainers are way more influential that they are. They(Mariah, Madonna and Janet) wouldn't even have a template to draw from without it. Ma Rainey, Ella, Sarah, Billie, Dinah to name a few of the awesome vocal musicians of the past will always be more important and influential than those ladies and saying it don't take away from how great their music and contributions to entertainment. | |
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Out of the three: Janet Jackson.
That's the Way Love Goes alone dethrones careers. | |
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Not quite right, actually the most personal ones are midtempos or ballads: as i said before, they are usually the best ones. An example of this is Drowned World song, which is a masterpiece. | |
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Madonna has the best discography...and more of a showman for tours Mariah has (or at least had) the best vocal range And Janet is the best Actress | |
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Janet Neither of the other two has an album that runs fastbreak full court like Control or Rhythmn Nation or a quad of pleasurable lps like these 2 and Velvet Rope and All For You. Don't laugh at my funk
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Now that is a tough one I would say Madonna has been the most consistent albumwise....with Janet a close second. I just couldn't get into Damita Jo (2004), 20 Y.O (2006) or Discipline (2008). Keep Calm & Listen To Prince | |
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I'd say in terms of essential albums all music fans should have in their collections, it has to be Madge ... True Blue, Like A Prayer, Erotica, Ray of Light, Confessions On A Dancefloor ... that's five must have albums right there, and there's still a ton of classic tracks that aren't even on these (Vogue, Into The Groove, Justify My Love, etc). www.filmsfilmsfilms.co.uk - The internet's best movie site! | |
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I meant entertainment value as in showmanship etc. There is nothing about her songs that are defenitive as in for an entertainer. That's one thing she is not so much..a dancer or fluid in choreography / storytelling in her live shows. I.E. Vogue or If...its like there is an art piece to each section of those songs..the dance..the lyrics Janet doesnt sing Rythm Nation without the dance for example...Mariah is a songstress but there is no art / vision piece to her songs other than her singing. Mariah and Janet make sure you can see and feel something in their shows. Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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"The Wind" is one of the few songs that actually brings me to tears. And "Can't Let Go", well, that song has pretty much been the story of my life for the past 25 years. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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They are so emotional. Make you cry. Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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