★★★★★
There was a time when Janet Jackson turned up her nose at nastyboys, nasty cars, even at nastiness itself. "I'm not a prude/Ijust want some respect," she sang in the 1986 hit "Nasty.""'Cause privacy is my middle name ... " My, how things have changed.These days, Jackson is obsessed with the nasty and doesn't carewho knows it. Duck behind The Velvet Rope and you'll find hersinging about all sorts of sexual things, from casual encountersand computer liaisons to bondage and bisexuality...
- ew.com
2011-03-03
★★★★★
Like many of Janet Jackson's fans, I was very skeptical about another Janet album in which producers/songwriters Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were not involved. I didn't know what to expect from her latest CD, Discipline, and I was even more leery of her move to Island Def Jam, home of Mariah Carey. Considering that her last two outings (2004's Damita Jo and 2006's 20 Y.O...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Janet Jackson, high priestess of the royal family of weird, is celebrating her twenty years in 'the biz' with a new album: '20 Y.O'. Shame she didn't choose to celebrate with a platter of vol au vents, and some warm bucks fizz like us mere mortals, because '20 Y.O' really ain't all that. Folks in the know are tipping '20 Y...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Janet is back with her old record company A&M; Records (they released Rhythm Nation 1814 back in the day) after crashing and burning with Def Jam. This 34-track double-CD launches the deal, and is meant to relaunch Janet's career - you know, remind folks how great Janet was...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
This two-hour Madison Square Garden concert originally recorded for broadcast on HBO back in 1998 shows Janet at the top of her game, recreating highly choreographed video-style dance sequences with an eight-piece band and even more dancers. The hits are all here, notably Rope Burn where Janet pulls a young man from the audience and ties him up to a chair onstage before doing a stripper pole dance - sexier than anything she did at this year's Super Bowl. But who cares...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Janet hasn't been relevant in 15 years. Her boob's special appearance at the Super Bowl further sabotaged her ailing career, and her last two studio albums were disastrous. It never mattered before that Janet can't sing to save her life, but now that she's down in the dumps, it matters...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Janet is living proof that one's record sales are often equivalent to the size of your boobs. And on this album, in photos and in song, Janet is popping out all over the place. But this 22-track opus showcases the fact that our little Janet (well, not so little) really isn't much of a singer. She coos her way through numbers like Moist and Slolove, but even Marvin Gaye understood that for every Let's Get It On audiences need a What's Going On...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
After the poor sales of her 2004 album Damita Jo - thanks to Boobgate at the Super Bowl as well as the fact that the album wasn't all that good - Jackson rebounds with a silky smooth album that owes much to her new paramour, Jermaine Dupri, who co-wrote and co-produced almost everything here. Jackson's also trying that Mary J. Blige/Mariah Carey hip-hop thing, notably on So Excited (with Khia) and Call on Me (with Nelly), but when it comes to vocals, Jackson ain't no Blige or Carey...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
This "No Scrubs"-ishtune gets no points for originality, but that doesn't reallymatter; "Doesn't Really Matter" delivers in just about every other way. Produced bylongtime Janet collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the firstsingle from the soundtrack to Nutty Professor II: The Klumpsslides nicely from a half-time, stutter-beat verse to a memorablysingsongy chorus, on which Janet's restrained cooing lets themelody do all the work.
- ew.com
2010-08-27
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