{"id":8152,"date":"2012-03-18T03:18:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T07:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2021-01-02T19:09:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T00:09:28","slug":"audio-review-20-yo-album-janet-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=8152","title":{"rendered":"audio review : 20 YO ( album ) &#8230; Janet Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/8152.jpg\" alt=\"audio review : 20 YO ( album ) ... Janet Jackson\" style=\"height:200px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Janet Jackson may not be as cute as she was on Good Times, but her songs still sound as adorable as they ever did. That&#8217;s thanks a lot to producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who continue to provide the diva with a seemingly endless supply of grooves. It&#8217;s that music, composed with a small assortment of co-producers, including beau Jermaine Dupri, and Janet Jackson&#8217;s underrated knack for melodic vocals that make the songs, recorded and mixed with radio\/club-friendly flare, instantly catchy.<\/p>\n<p>I hate the title, especially the stupid abbreviation for Years Old, but I guess the point is that it&#8217;s been twenty years since she recruited Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to take Control of her first hit album. How does it go? Funny How Time Flies When You&#8217;re Having Fun? Well, the fun continues here with an album of all-new songs; the first few of which seem to pay homage to the Control era with their 1980s-styled party synths. Get It Out Me, a sex song disguised as a dance anthem, goes especially retro.<\/p>\n<p>This is a set front-loaded with fast-paced dance numbers that drifts down to midtempo in the middle and ends with two candle burners. <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=50735\" title=\"audio review : Take Care ( song ) ... Janet Jackson\">Take Care<\/a> has Janet in bed, masturbating to the thought of her &#8220;sweetie pie&#8221; coming home. He apparently works a late-night shift. <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=28045\" title=\"audio review : Love 2 Love ( song ) ... Janet Jackson\">Love 2 Love<\/a>, a sweet and sultry highlight, has her enjoying sex with him at last. That&#8217;s no way to end an album with such a broad concept, but, for what it&#8217;s worth, there is an Outro in which she thanks &#8220;God&#8221; for the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 4 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Jackson may not be as cute as she was on Good Times, but her songs still sound as adorable as they ever did. That&#8217;s thanks a lot to producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who continue to provide the diva with a seemingly endless supply of grooves. It&#8217;s that music, composed with a small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=8152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">audio review : 20 YO ( album ) &#8230; Janet Jackson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9762],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-8152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-4-of-5-rating","tag-janet-jackson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103280,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions\/103280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}