Janet Jackson - Unbreakable - 2015

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/janet-jackson-kick-world-tour-vancouver-august-article-1.2258430
no new york play? y u braek </3

But she's coming to Calgary!

And Minneapolis! The part on "Escapade" where she shouts out Minneapolis still makes me cry.

"With Rhythm Nation Janet Jackson becomes arguably the first female African-American recording artist to form her own record label."

"arguably"

Sylvia Robinson was a singer, songwriter and then started Sugarhill Records with her husband.

yeah, sugarhill was the first thing that came to mind for me too.

amped

No DC, NYC or Boston gigs :(

yea that sucks

No DC, NYC or Boston gigs :(

Tours get rolled out in stages. There's no way she won't be playing in those cities sooner or later.

yeah generally but there's also the potential for fatigue, tour not selling well, album leaking and replanned marketing...

i'm feeling "no sleeep"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_2_VgUdeq4

Yes. I'm unbelieeevably excited for all of this.

Guessing this one will grow on me like "That's the Way Love Goes" did.

this is nice

Got fifth row tickets to Janet in Mpls too.

for some reason i had trepidation about this entire comeback, maybe because that's my default reaction to most comebacks by legends, but ooooooooo this song is really properly great

ooh new song is so goood

love this, very much looking forward to the album. both this and the video clip one have such luscious Rhodes.

good tune

killin me softly. def felt the that's the way love goes vibes.

A nice counterpart to "When We Oooo" lulling me to sleeep the other night.

Eric H., I'll nod toward you from the cheap seats.

I love understated Janet so much.

^SAME

this slays

I like how she debuts with a slow one instead of trying to impress the kids with a banger for which she might be accused of sounding "dated."

also: "Lonely" and "Making Love in the Rain" are good influences.

the nod to "go deep" in the title can't be unintentional, right?

i'd imagine not

yeah I bee thinking that too

ayo
http://www.ticketmaster.com/Janet-Jackson-tickets/artist/735353?c=LNSM_NewYork_JanetJackson_PruBarclays_fb_announce_071315

Ugh, "No Sleeep" didn't need J. Cole.

ayo i got tickets!!! like super nosebleeds but going w/ my favorite co-worker and it's going to be so fucking fun no matter what

Ugh, "No Sleeep" didn't need J. Cole.

― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid)

I saw J. Cole and Jeremih available in a two-for-one package at Target the other day.

no sleep is pretty insipid. the come-ons in the lyrics sound completely tired and workwoman-like. why is anyone excited about this? and i used to be a massive janet fan.

You have heard the stuff that made you a "used to be" fan right? That "No Sleeep" isn't 20 Y.O. is cause for celebration.

Also, it's chill af.

yeah the fact that it's kind of pleasant and unassuming and maybe, if we're being generous, more in line with her '90s midtempo stuff, is pretty reassuring just because she was really flailing around stylistically with those last few albums. curious to see what the rest of the record sounds like and if this is just a buzz single for something else soon to come.

I love it -- exactly what I wanted. She and Jam-Lewis are settling into the comeback instead of jumping someone else's train.

it like legitimately gets better every time i listen to it

I love that sample in the bridge.

and she says "fait accompli"!

http://share.gifyoutube.com/KzxGpb.gif

http://thehairpin.com/2015/07/janet-jacksons-laughter-ranked/

“Interlude: Hey Baby” robbed.

I hope the album drops before the tour starts.

Just The Interludes playlist courtesy of my gurl Mickey

http://open.spotify.com/user/mickeyvetter/playlist/6uqYGH1XryLxXE9PGTQwqA

okay, i am fairly certain i never listened to 2008's "Discipline" and I did not know it existed.
anyone have anything good to say about it?

"Rock With U" is stellar but it's all I know from that album

I remember liking "Feedback."

I liked "Feedback" fine.

Would've pruned one or two songs off side two of this album, but otherwise it's so much more consistent than I expected from her by now.

"Well Traveled" feels like Janet covering The Lumineers

"Gon' B Alright" in comparison is like a lightning bolt, definitely enhanced due to following an outright slog

I like that they make Janet's voice sound like a squeezebox organ in "Well Traveled." Don't like the Lumineers undertones.

Actually "Gon' Be Alright" sounds like Janet Jackson feat. Wondaland

or working with Saadiq in retro mode.

shoulda stopped the album after black eagle

"Black Eagle" into full version of "Promise" would've been perfect.

why is "Promise" only 57 seconds long

― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, October 5, 2015 3:32 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's a full track on the Target edition of the album.

might have to get that then

no sleep is the best cos of those dj quik-esque snare/claps

I'm still convinced he ghost-produced "Go Deep".

I thought "Runaway" was a better meta-comment on her stardom and her relationship w/a mass audience than "All For You," but maybe I love "The Glow of Love" too much for me settle.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, October 5, 2015 3:20 PM Bookmark

I've never liked "All For You" even slightly, but I immediately thought "Glow of Love" was amazing when I heard it years later. Really the only AFY single I like that much is "Someone to Be My Lover". "Doesn't Really Matter" is ok I guess. I didn't like it at the time. I guess AFY has had the disadvantage for me of coming out during my underground rap purist phase, so I've never been able to hear it with ears that were both fresh and open to it.

For my money, Damita Jo is her best post-Velvet Rope album.

I'm still convinced he ghost-produced "Go Deep".

― The Reverend, Monday, October 5, 2015 4:04 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

definitely. until i hear him deny it I will believe it

man "well traveled" doesn't sound like the dang lumineers

fkn hell the full "promise of you" is MAGIC

in general, re the all for you talk, i think this album is pretty comparable to it quality-wise, as is discipline, though the best songs on each of those are really different, as are the less compelling moments. all of them feel a bit overlong, it's not just that pruning them would have got rid of the inessential songs but made them a more coherent front-to-back experience - nothing post-AFY seems to merit its epic length to me

it's funny what a 7-yr-hiatus will do though; there was a pre-release expectation for this to be Peak Janet which didn't exist for her last couple of albums

when she was hugely successful she released albums every 3-4 years, so the way she started releasing albums every 2 years as her sales were dropping really made it feel like a frantic flailing downward spiral. i think probably everyone needed some time away to miss her.

If only the same were true for Stevie Wonder's last few albums.

for janet: social media landscape changed drastically, cultural interests shifted, whole generation grew up without seeing her as anything but an oldies artist, lotsa reasons but also the album is amazing

It's aight. A few really good songs but I think people are overrating this because they want to see Janet back on top.

Yes, but it's also a great album with at least four amazing songs which is better than a 2015 janet album has any right to be imo.

nah i legitimately love this

as uh evidenced by the thread.

prob my album of the year, don't really want to listen to anything else

getting no sleep?

yes alfred

RnR HoF nominated.

https://media.giphy.com/media/qRt4bcujgsj1S/giphy.gif

and likely #1 next week

I think that right up until the penultimate song this is a great album. I don't think it is as good as the run from Control through The Velvet Rope. I will be featuring it in heavy rotation for the rest of the year.

Upthread I said there's no shame at all that Janet (or anyone else) will never match Control > RN1814 > janet. > Velvet Rope

yeah that's an insane way to judge any artist including janet

"best since (but by no means as good as) the Velvet Rope" is her "best since Blood On The Tracks"

That list of Janet's laughs way upthread needs to be updated to include the one from "Broken Hearts Heal." A happier sound than any laugh since "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite."

or a George W. Bush press conference circa 2003

Poll: "heaven in the morning" vs. "coffee in the morning"

I WOKE UP IN COFFEE IN THE MORNING

haha

Fun show in Minneapolis last night. Jam & Lewis were there, and the mayor declared it Janet Jackson Day. I would've liked to hear more of the new songs, but the only real disappointment was when the pre-show DJ played (apparently by accident) a few seconds of Jazmine Sullivan's "Let it Burn," then cut it short. It might've slowed the energy a bit but I was so itching to hear it.

Bonus: Janet lip-syncing Kendrick as bits of "Poetic Justice" led into "Any Time Any Place."

Loved this show so much more than the All For You tour.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/janet-jackson-postpone-tour-surgery.html

janet c'mon

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/entertainment/janet-jackson-postpones-tour-family-planning-feat/index.html

my show went from Feb to August and now to like probably never?

No word on whether Jackson, 49, and her husband, 41-year-old Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana, are looking to build their family the old-fashioned way or through other means.

what were ticket sales like i wonder?

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpUWrl3-mc8

tickets are cheaper on stubhub now than they are from ticketmaster, or they were a few weeks ago

bcz none of them sold out iirc?

janet y do u braek heart