COUNTDOWN TO PLANET JANET: T-minus one year and counting …


Janet Jackson
(May. 29, 2003) *Janet Jackson’s albums are always full of dance floor style action and MTV.com reports that she’ll be bringing that style back like it’s all that on her upcoming set, tentatively scheduled to be released in 2004. Longtime producer Jimmy Jam told the site that a dance set would be the obvious choice.
“The record is really in its infancy, which means that we've done probably six or seven songs," Jam said of the album last week. "There is no distinct musical style yet. It's all over the place, from songs that I would call classic Janet songs, meaning that they could've been on any of her [earlier] albums. Some of the songs have a definite sort of ambient quality to them. We've been listening to a lot of everything from Zero 7 to Télépopmusik, [so] there's a little bit of that. There's some house stuff, which there always is [on her albums]. There is going to be some more guitar-flavored things.

"It's kind of the way [her] albums always start," he added. "There's not a clear direction yet. We see what sticks. We're doing a bunch of songs and seeing what we like. We've already thrown some [songs] out. It's sort of still the discovery process. We're not going to [put the album out] till next year most likely anyway. We've been working in New York the past couple of weeks, we're going to work in LA, in Miami, and we're probably going to work in Minneapolis. So I think the music will take on different elements as we take on different environments and work with different people."

Jam said that since they do not expect to put the album out until next year, they can work at a leisurely pace and really focus on penning good lyrics.

(eurweb.com)

This is going to be an important record for Janet after the luke warm respond to her last album. If she doesn't come strong with it, it could be the beginning of her slide. I think Jam and Lewis have a little more life left in them so I'm betting this will be a tight album.

I hope she comes up with something a bit different. Her last three albums all sound the same.

intha916 said:

I was excited believing the rumor about this being a "mellow record". Didn't know that she wants 2 do a Europe-Dance Pop record .

Oh well,,,I'ma buy it anyway!

Cloudbuster said:

What u mean? The Velvet Rope is NOTHING like she eva done in her whole 36 years old.

Velvet Rope is DEEEP, with three Es.

Harlepolis said:

I like The Velvet Rope. I just think the last three albums are all interchangeable. Control, Rhythm Nation and Janet all sounded different and like a natural progression.

but harepolis, this topic was alredy started...no offense...u still the homegirl from round the way..

Anyway...u know Janet gonna hav 2 put the slow nasty songs at the end like usual. On All 4 U they were in the middle oddly

Harlepolis said:

I was going to say. VR is NOTHING like her other albums!

Well, maybe I need to go give it another listen but I reckon I'll still come away with the same opinion.

I read she was going a little electroclash!

Now that would cool, when black artists mix it up, and when white artists mix it up properly, only good comes out of it.
[This message was edited Thu May 29 14:42:56 PDT 2003 by VelvetSplash]

She reads lips?

















j/k

paisleypark4 said:

My bad then :p