I don't know, but she looks really great here http://img.photobucket.co.../janet.jpg

janet...over? about as much as madonna, mariah, and prince are over. will she be able to compete with these young kids? probably not. janet's core fan base has grown up and in general young kids want their idols to be younger. i don't know about most of you but when i was 14 my idols were all in their 20's or early 30s and i know it sounds stupid but, really, kids don't look to 40 year olds to see what's cool. you want to look to someone you (think you) can relate to not someone the same age as your parents!

if janet recognizes that her core audience has grown up i think she'll be just fine. i loved damita jo but to be honest i really don't want another sexcapade record. there are a ton of social issues that could be addressed in the pop world and i think a lot of her fans are ready for a modern rhythm nation-type record to hit. i don't think she should put on a habit and become a prude, though, i would just like to see her say something a little more important than how horny she is. at 39 you should be able to talk about sexuality in a much more profound way than what is featured on damita jo, all for you, and janet. as a woman in a sexually provocative arena - one where, in short, sex sells - she must have a lot to say on the topic. i'd love to hear about that rather than see her competing for the "sexiest female in music" award.

SassyBritches said:

I c ur points. I think damita jo sucked because modern pop sucks and we all know that her slowjams tend to be average/awful.

I think she will learn from her mistake.

thesexofit said:

this means very little to me coming from someone who created that billy ocean thread.

SassyBritches said:

Dont judge me like voices Comparing this thread to another one I did. This is a different thread right?

My billy thread was just saying how he sounded like a white guy. That is all.

thesexofit said:

i'm just playin' around!

THROB is a great song to masturbate to.

purplegypsy said:

its not a bad song to fuck to when you're high on methamphetamine either!

SassyBritches said:

what about coke?

purplegypsy said:

oh no, honey...in the gay community its all about meth.

SassyBritches said:

if you are GAY, then how come you keep fucking me?

purplegypsy said:

cuz you like it in your ass.

SassyBritches said:

SassyBritches said:

i could never fuck to songs with words... cause i'd end up singing along when i was high

Throb is a great song - perfect for the period but would sound dated in 2005.

Sorry, don't see a Prince and Janet combo at all...

ehuffnsd said:

but i don't think of "throb" as having words. i get what you're saying though. except for tricky...tricky makes good fucking music with lyrics (especially maxinquaye).

Isnt it rumored that prince had a hand in writing "What Have You Done For Me Lately" asking the audience who made that?



Anyway it sounded like he may have hadda hand in MAYBE....Funny How Time Flies....kinda like Sheila's Noon Rendezvous.


Well. Throb is a good good song. Sorry Sexofit, throb is a thumpin jam that makes my ass dance. U of all people I thought u wudda liked that song

I had some1 at work re-play that song and then begged me to let him borrow my janet. CD I was like hell nah

Who knows, she may just flop her other tit out...

June7 said:

i didn't see that coming

Throb is a great song. I don't think it would ever happen, but I wish Prince would either produce and/or write a new track for Janet. Also, I don't think that Janet's career is over. In fact, Damita Jo didn't do that badly considering all of the controversy surrounding its release. Plus, outside of the Super Bowl,the choices for the first singles were not strong enough to create buzz for the cd. Certainly, the video for Just A Little While was NOT that stong "dance" style video many fans have come to expect from Janet. Still for many other other artists, Damita Jo's sales would have been considered a success.

In fact,the reviews were mixed, so Damita Jo was not altogether critically panned. Here's is one of the most interesting reviews that I have found for the cd. The writer spends his time discussing the music on Damita Jo rather than critcizing sexual content, the Super Bowl, and then all of the personal attacks that incident generated:

Naked soul
Janet bares more than breast on Damita Jo
BY MICHAEL FREEDBERG
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SURPRISE: in the wake of her Super Bowl fiasco, Jackson seems to have discovered that less is indeed more, especially if you have something to say.

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Damita Jo (Virgin) is the quietest CD Janet Jackson has ever recorded. Gone are the Amazonian shouts and kick-your-butt themes of Control; gone, too, the whiplash, song-and-dance Bruce Lee–isms of Rhythm Nation. Here, in a CD that bears her own middle name (which I suspect few fans were aware of), there’s a side of herself that she says, in one lyric, "I don’t hide . . . but I don’t show." This side of Jackson sings so close to you that there’s nowhere to hide. She doesn’t leave herself much room to hide either. She sings so softly that you hear — almost feel the grains of — every nuance of her soprano. She sings with a seeming indifference to her accompaniment; in the slow, intimate "Looking for Love," "Spending Time with You," "Magic Hour," and "Island Life," the music barely affects her singing.

Damita Jo acts up more energetically in up-tempo tracks — "Sexhibition," "My Baby," and "All Nite (Don’t Stop)," a song whose every thump, soar, and "oooh" honors David Morales’s house-music mix style without ever interfering with, much less overpowering, Jackson’s vocal. Yet the quiet, understated, almost affectless Jackson sings with more conviction than when she was bragging, dissing, and gyroscoping. In the wake of her Super Bowl fiasco, she seems to have discovered that less is indeed more, especially if you have something to say. Jackson has. She wrote all of Damita Jo’s lyrics (the music was composed and arranged by the same Jam and Lewis team who helped create her earlier successes). She makes her points in her own words, and she sings the songs in her own way.

Reaching the thirtysomething years, after a lifetime on stage, Jackson now has some perspective on sex ("Sexhibition," "Moist"), dancing ("R&B Junkie"), breaking up to make up ("Like You Don’t Love Me," "It All Comes Down to Love"), and aftereffects ("Thinkin’ Bout My Ex"). In the past, she struggled not to sound (or move) like her brother Michael. Here she’s shaken off his presence entirely. None of Damita Jo’s 22 tracks has rhythms that resemble the Jackson Five’s work, or Michael’s; and hardly any of her 22 vocal performances reflect Michael’s howl, his screech, or his lullaby. The only reference to family comes in the title song, in which she reminisces about being called upon, upbraided, and, most probably, overborne by her mother — "Ooooh! I’ll tell your daddy," Janet sings in a down-home voice that must be an imitation of her mother’s.

It’s hard to find in American soul music a parallel to the whispery intensity of these vocals, the absence of melisma, the concentration on text, all of it completely unlike the ferocity of Beyoncé, the riffing of Erykah Badu, the melisma of Mary J. Blige. In French variété, however, one hears as a matter of course the thoughtfulness, the hush, the pianissimo force that Jackson now commands. As she says in "The One," a brief (1:02) Europhonic interlude, "The confusion lives . . . the contradictions mount." (She restates this sentiment even more profoundly in "Lookin’ for Love," the bothered monologue that opens the CD.)

Still, Damita Jo isn’t just an American version of a variété album. Jackson’s advanced, club kid’s taste in rhythms, for example, runs to bossa nova ("Slolove"), old-school new jill ("R&B Junkie"), mash-up ("Strawberry Bounce"), and, in "All Nite (Don’t Stop)," house music, all of which you’ll hear in a Milan-made dance mix, and perhaps on a Paris lounge-house track, but not very often in variété. Given the icy cool of Janet’s soprano, her teasing attitude to lovemaking, the cuteness of her asides ("I’d like to make it, make it, yes, make it . . . with a motherfucker like you," from "Strawberry Bounce"), and the occasional burst of Lynyrd Skynyrd guitar ("A Little While" and the intro to "All Nite"), you could imagine her taking the stage with a riot grrrl act like Trash Palace, Ginger Ale, or Le Tigre. Not that these acts would welcome a singer as versatile as she’s now become. In Damita Jo, she shows not one side but several. She examines and speaks up about her life, her desires, her disappointments, her sense of wonder and movement, her peculiar sense of fun. In the darkness, she smiles; in the sunlit songs, she grimaces. Prepare to be surprised. You might even like it.
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SassyBritches said:

I agree. I liked Damita Jo, but it definitely is a holding pattern for Janet. I don't think she knows quite where to go from here. If the next album isn't another "discovery of my sexuality album", then I think Janet will do just fine.

Anyway, Throb rules. It's one of my favorite Janet songs ever. I hate the remixes, though.

yea...i like throb-very unique and crazy-

I just read the latest sister 2 sister and it had an interview with Jermaine Dupri and he said Janets new album will have no "house or techno shit" as her previous albums, so no SloLove or c'mon get up. thank you!
I'm hoping the first single will be something like Ciara's "1 2 STEP"
anyway dance music is about what's hot "now" and house/euro trash music is not at the moment, it's all about hip/hop and crunk, so I excpect Janet will be getting with it, I'm sure her lyrics will be far more superior to aww baby's and my goodie bags, but will be similar style of music, appealing to the younger kids is the only to sell dance music. and there will be plenty of JJ & TL babymaking tracks, that's why I buy Janet albums!! Warmth and moist were the jams from the last album, not as good as would u mind from AFY.

p.s "I want you" was one of the best Janet tracks ever??

I shudder at the thought of Janet doing hip hop/crunk on her next album.

twink69 said:

I took offense to that stupid a** comment by JD. The fool has some nerve. I'd listen to dance music faster than that sh*te "My Boo" he produced with Flusher and Alicia Sneeze last year. "SloLove" was ON FIRE. I haven't read the rest article, but disrespecting the dance music community by implying dance music is mindlessly trivial and sub-standard — in the line "I'm making dance songs, not music" is a bools**t thought, in and of itself.

Plus, WHEN HAS JANET DONE ANY TECHNO JERMAINE? That's an ignorant a** statement. Techno and House are not synonymous. We still have fools running around thinking they're the same thing. "Together Again," for instance, is not a techno song*! Dumb a**.

House music was NOT the problem on Janet past few LPs. S**t we need more of it. We only get ONE track per album anyway... and now he's trying to take ALL OF IT away?

F**k that*!!!


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Actually, Janet is just being herself and each artist specializes in one subject or another.She's a lot smarted than her brother, she found a formula that works and stayed with it. Unlike Mike that believed his talent could stand without good production. Further more...She's addressed social issues! So why is everyone acting like she's just a horny chick with no depth? Let's stop expecting more than entertainment and just enjoy what she does. The audacity of fans, that we should dictate what we think an artist should do!

She's the best at what she does and who could replace her? I do like Tweet but she's not a performer,I do Like Amarie but she has no voice. I do like Beyonce but she has no personality. Janet is perfectly Feminine and Strong. If she chooses, she deserves to retire with respect. Instead of Madonna who can't admit when the show is over. I just asked a simple question is Janet retiring,let's be fair to her.

Janet 4 ever baby!

Just to share my make & take list.
What every they make I'll take.

1. Prince
2. Janet
3. Sade
4. N'degeochello
5. Teena
6. Alanis
7. Wycleff

damita jo was a bull shit album. it was actually the all 4 u album with different beats behind it. she didn't sing much, just moan-rapped her way thru it. with boring interludes and boring beats, there's nothing groundbreaking on it. she hadn't been great since velvet rope. everything since sux.


and she's marrying that cockroach lookin nigguh, jermaine dupri.


great, with michael's molestation problems, and jermaine's irs trouble. janet's going to be in and out of court ..... yay....

that could be her next album. da peepole's cort. neptunes and jd could produce it.

JackieBlue said:

I was born May 23rd 1966.I just turned 39.

it's really quite ironic people bash janet about her "sexual" songs, i mean common! i assume all the people on this forum are prince fans. Isn't he known for his sexually explicit, songs before janet? which were included in countless number of albums.

I guess because he's a man, some of you think it's ok!

I don't like that fake bitch and I don't have to like her. She can't sing and the only reason why she got a record deal is because her brother is Michael Jackson. Michael is the most talented in the family and the most popular so get over it. Janet needs to stop with the whore act that has been going on for 12 years now.