Musicslave said:

getxxxx said:

There is no listed SAMPLE on BIU! No Samples listed at all on this project.

- Really now? That's cool. I could've sworn I heard a sample in "Unbreakable". Maybe Jimmy & Terry just used her own voice to make it sound like a sample. I hope she doesn't have another moment again like she had with Desiree years ago. - As far as "BIU!" is concerned, the drum pattern hits verrrry similiar to "White Horse". Maybe they just recreated a similar beat. - But its cool to hear that she did what Biz Markie did with his "No Samples Allowed" album. LOL

LOL

Musicslave said:

Cinny said:

A high energy dance track featuring Missy Elliott would be hard to beat.

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You're probably right. They need to go ahead already and send it to the appropriate radio formats.

Any radio station that ever played "SexyBack" should be obligated to play "BurnItUp!"

mancabdriver said:

DAMN! I'm the only one that hasn't heard it yet?

holding on for one more day.

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Nah brother. I'm holding on. I'm yet holding on. We can do it!

Cinny said:

Musicslave said:

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You're probably right. They need to go ahead already and send it to the appropriate radio formats.

Any radio station that ever played "SexyBack" should be obligated to play "BurnItUp!"

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Agreed

NY Times "Unbreakable" Review:

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/arts/music/review-janet-jacksons-unbreakable-focuses-on-love-outside-the-bedroom.html?_r=0

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Review: Janet Jackson’s ‘Unbreakable’ Focuses on Love Outside the Bedroom

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Meet a sweeter, more chaste Janet Jackson. “Unbreakable,” her first album in seven years, arrives after two major events: the 2009 death of her brother Michael and her 2012 marriage to a Qatari businessman, Wissam Al Mana. Through 17 songs, Ms. Jackson sings about love, loyalty and compassion, and about memories as well as anticipation. The word “sex” never appears in the lyrics.

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Ms. Jackson, 49, is returning at a pop moment she has fomented since the mid-1980s. Working into the early 2000s with the producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who rejoin her on “Unbreakable,” she concocted crisp keyboard funk, smiley pop and deep-pillow ballads; her songs promised autonomy, idealism, girlish fun and unabashed carnal delights. Beyoncé’s phalanx of feminist dancers and Janelle Monáe’s sci-fi swing are updates of “Rhythm Nation”; the whispery, slow-motion enticements of FKA twigs extrapolate from albums like “The Velvet Rope.”

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Ms. Jackson hasn’t come back to challenge her students for her old turf. She tried that on “Discipline” in 2008, working with producers who flaunted up-to-the-minute effects and concentrating on seduction. That version of Ms. Jackson appears only in “No Sleeep,” a sultry slow vamp with Ms. Jackson cooing and whispering to an absent lover that their reunion will be “48 hours of love.” It’s a reticent, PG-rated version of the far more explicit ways Ms. Jackson used to tease.

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For most of “Unbreakable,” she plays big sister — someone who’s happily in love, willing to offer advice and wishing for a better world. It’s a benign role but a modest one, reinforced by the music. Jimmy Jam and Mr. Lewis, who have needed Ms. Jackson to make their best music, are careful not to upstage her here. On this album, their most striking song is the most restrained: “After You Fall,” a touching ballad that promises unwavering devotion, with a long stretch of only piano and voice. Elsewhere, the productions provide lushness, clarity and some sly reminders of sounds from Ms. Jackson’s old hits. “Gon’ B Alright” looks back further, fusing Smokey Robinson’s Motown with Sly and the Family Stone for the album’s closing burst of hope.

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A few tracks reach cautiously toward the contemporary, with hints of trap bass and percussion in “Dammn Baby” and a four-on-the-floor chorus in an oddly melancholy save-the-world song, “Shoulda Known Better.” The title song of “Unbreakable” loops a sweet-soul sample through the verses like an early Kanye West production. But the melodies lack the invincible catchiness of Ms. Jackson’s best songs.

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Experiments — and better tunes — are tucked away in the second half of the album. “Black Eagle” is a two-part song that sets its mysticism and self-help to modal phrases and quiet finger snaps.

“Take Me Away” laces together plinking Minimalist marimbas and gleaming Fleetwood Mac guitars in a plea for escape that’s both wishful and optimistic. And “Lessons Learned” builds a folky refuge in a song about an abused, codependent woman.

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The tribute to Michael Jackson turns out to be unexpectedly upbeat. With breezy vocal harmonies, “Broken Hearts Heal” reminisces about a childhood full of singing and laughing together. “I miss you much,” Ms. Jackson sings, echoing one of her hits. Then the chorus determinedly looks forward from where Ms. Jackson stands now: “Our love ain’t no material thing/Inshallah see you in the next life.” “Inshallah” means “God willing.”

My expectations were sky high, but damn, im on a total trip listening to this album.

wow, this is perfect, what an album and i´m only on song number 6.

Beats are sick, vocals are perfect, what a sound, so warm.

Its like rhythm nation 2015, the album i always wished for.

Vocally this is her best album.

I knew this was gonna be good, im on a trip!!!

Musicslave said:

mancabdriver said:

DAMN! I'm the only one that hasn't heard it yet?

holding on for one more day.

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Nah brother. I'm holding on. I'm yet holding on. We can do it!

We can do it! Although I really wanted to listen to the deluxe copy in my room to absorb it all. I will be working all day tomorrow and wont get to the store until at least the evening -I'm pretty sure I will listen to my i-tunes download way before then though.

mancabdriver said:

Musicslave said:

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Nah brother. I'm holding on. I'm yet holding on. We can do it!

We can do it! Although I really wanted to listen to the deluxe copy in my room to absorb it all. I will be working all day tomorrow and wont get to the store until at least the evening -I'm pretty sure I will listen to my i-tunes download way before then though.

i still havent gotten mine yet so im with you.

Still waiting...the suspense is killing me. Just reading that article has gotten me all emotional, so I know this album will be fabulous

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https://www.facebook.com/...0868584564

nextedition said:

My expectations were sky high, but damn, im on a total trip listening to this album.

wow, this is perfect, what an album and i´m only on song number 6.

Beats are sick, vocals are perfect, what a sound, so warm.

Its like rhythm nation 2015, the album i always wished for.

Vocally this is her best album.

I knew this was gonna be good, im on a trip!!!

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Word?! Damn, I guess she really was listening. I wondered if she worked with a vocal coach to help strengthen her voice.

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For some reason, I'm not surprised by the quality I'm hearing about. I think she really needed to separate from everything, her country, her industry, everything and find the artist within herself again before she began to create.

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Considering all that she's endured these last few years, we knew she shouldn't have lacked any inspiration. Sometimes you need time to sort everything out, to reconcile how you REALLY feel about things. And I felt like she had time to do that this go 'round. Not to mention simply enjoying your new life with your husband. I'm sure being free from a record label helped a lot too.

Are the interludes have been incorporated into the end of the songs!

No Sl333p PKCZ(R) Remix (Bonus Track) for JAPAN iTunes and along with the HMV/TARGET Bonus Tracks

Janet Jackson: The stories behind the songs

Janet Jackson's chief collaborator, Jimmy Jam, reveals the secrets behind their biggest hits and talks about her new album, Unbreakable.

http://www.bbc.com/news/e...s-34404314

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I received my CD in the mail today. I haven't enjoyed a Janet album as a whole this much since All For You. I have had Shoulda Known Better on repeat for the last hour.

A beautiful, mature, diverse album. I knew she had it in her! For me, this sits alongside the "great four" (Control, Rhythm Nation, janet. and The Velvet Rope). Yes, I said it.

"Dammn Baby" and "Night" are kick ass uptempos. Bring the fuckin' heat, Janet.

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my standouts....

well traveled (emotional, spiritual)

broken hearts heal (mj tribute, strong off the wall vibes=beautiful)

the great forever (i knew i would love it fromthat snip, the full song is addictive)

gon be alright (funky sly meet stevie meet jackson 5, when she says 'where my cousin at' is stevie playing on this song? i dont have my cd yet im streaming on spotify)

dream/euphoria (classic 70s soul)

night (soul/disco jam)

black eagle (soulful,powerful lyrics)

lessons learned (nice classic janet feel, would fit well on rhythm nation)

promise (could have been a great song but its too short)

take me away (pure pop fun)

shoulda known better (good song,very inspirational)

of course i love unbreakable and no sleeep

burn it up is a nice jam

2 be loved is an ok album cut nothing special

ironically the song i like least is damn baby

overall Unbreakable is excellent

lowkey said:

mancabdriver said:

We can do it! Although I really wanted to listen to the deluxe copy in my room to absorb it all. I will be working all day tomorrow and wont get to the store until at least the evening -I'm pretty sure I will listen to my i-tunes download way before then though.

i still havent gotten mine yet so im with you.

Listening at work now!

haha

Interesting that they list no samples for any of the songs. Because Dreamaker/Euphoria features a sample at the beginning of the song. I can't think of the name of the song, but that is a sample.

I sure hope she performs, "Take Me Away" on the tour. As well as "Broken Hearts Heal". These tracks have me going all the way in. Great album, Janet didn't disappoint.

nextedition said:

My expectations were sky high, but damn, im on a total trip listening to this album.

wow, this is perfect, what an album and i´m only on song number 6.

Beats are sick, vocals are perfect, what a sound, so warm.

Its like rhythm nation 2015, the album i always wished for.

Vocally this is her best album.

I knew this was gonna be good, im on a trip!!!

EXACTLY!!!!! Album is definitely solid! Haven't heard such a consistently fun, explorable and fresh album in a long time. Right now, "Dammn Baby" is on repeat, but this is one album that I'm not going to be able to stop playing in FULL for a while.

missfee said:

nextedition said:

My expectations were sky high, but damn, im on a total trip listening to this album.

wow, this is perfect, what an album and i´m only on song number 6.

Beats are sick, vocals are perfect, what a sound, so warm.

Its like rhythm nation 2015, the album i always wished for.

Vocally this is her best album.

I knew this was gonna be good, im on a trip!!!

EXACTLY!!!!! Album is definitely solid! Haven't heard such a consistently fun, explorable and fresh album in a long time. Right now, "Dammn Baby" is on repeat, but this is one album that I'm not going to be able to stop playing in FULL for a while.

Maybe I'll get the delivery notice for my vinyl today?

missfee said:

nextedition said:

My expectations were sky high, but damn, im on a total trip listening to this album.

wow, this is perfect, what an album and i´m only on song number 6.

Beats are sick, vocals are perfect, what a sound, so warm.

Its like rhythm nation 2015, the album i always wished for.

Vocally this is her best album.

I knew this was gonna be good, im on a trip!!!

EXACTLY!!!!! Album is definitely solid! Haven't heard such a consistently fun, explorable and fresh album in a long time. Right now, "Dammn Baby" is on repeat, but this is one album that I'm not going to be able to stop playing in FULL for a while.

same here, i streamed it until i went to sleep lastnight, listened to it this morning, i love it. i dont know when the last time i heard a more complete and diverse body of work.

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This is up there with Keef, Manson and Kendrick's albums as the best of 2015. Janet has completely blown my expectations out of the water!

#1 on iTunes! Jansus is bestowing life upon us.

WOW! This album is seriously hot!

If Prince worked with Janet, Jimmy and Terry, he too could have a great album!

It's cool to see universal love for Janet and praise for this album!

Well, I hope my pre-order arrives soon, I'm a hold out, but my son is nagging the living heck out of me. He's got money if he can't wait, really don't blame him though. Still I'm holding out

The entire album is available to stream on Amazon Prime Music.

Dammn Baby is the jump off.

This Afsheen Remix of No Sleeep is GORGEOUS. Is this the Target bonus?