<![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old' - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old' - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:38:48 EDT Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:38:48 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/leak-of-the-week-janet-jackson-20-years-old-201870.php <![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old']]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/leak-of-the-week-janet-jackson-20-years-old-201870.php#c456230 I'm a fan, and I'm still on the fence about buying this album. It sounds like All For You and Damita Jo redux to me.

And, no, SAMIDAE does not speak for me; I speak for my damn self.

rad_matter

]]> 33:201870:c456230 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:38:48 EDT <![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old']]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/leak-of-the-week-janet-jackson-20-years-old-201870.php#c451205 I'm with ya on this. Why is it that every urban artist now hides behind dozens of guest MCs (who all try desperately to sound like New York street thugs despite having grown their punk asses up in Malibou) and overblown layers of beatbox fluff.

Jamie Foxx's "Unpredictable," for example, could've been pretty good, but he trashed his credible and real vocal talent with gobs o' hip hop flunkies and needless profanity. Having seen him do "With You" solo for James Lipton, I was excited at the prospect of the then-upcoming album. But then I heard the version on the CD and was embarassed at having bought into it. He took a charming little love song and injected so much nasty rap crap into the middle that flushes the sweet sentiment right down the crapper. Who the heck let's a rapper jump into the middle of a love song and ask the line, "Who's p*ssy is this?"

Timberlake has done much the same... The guy actually does have some talent, but he junks up nearly every good song with meaningless and often tasteless urbanility.

Rob O.

]]> 33:201870:c451205 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:26:10 EDT <![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old']]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/leak-of-the-week-janet-jackson-20-years-old-201870.php#c440981 It's nice to know SAMIDAE speaks for every Janet Jackson fan on the earth. Tell us, do you spend innumerable hours polling every Janet Jackson fan and cataloguing their responses, or are you all in some sort of collective consciousness?

The swipe at "Mad-donna" - the (more successful) bête noire of Janet Jackson psychofans - says it all.

Xenu

]]> 33:201870:c440981 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:31:14 EDT <![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old']]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/leak-of-the-week-janet-jackson-20-years-old-201870.php#c440699 You forgot to add "Squee!" to that.

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:201870:c440699 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:39:13 EDT <![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old']]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/leak-of-the-week-janet-jackson-20-years-old-201870.php#c440344 You might be, but her fans love it. Actually, it personalizes the album. There cute, and in a world were ugly is everywhere, we could use all the cute we can get.

SAMIDAE

]]> 33:201870:c440344 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:33:52 EDT <![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old']]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/leak-of-the-week-janet-jackson-20-years-old-201870.php#c440164 I thought we were done with the skits by now.

tee.

]]> 33:201870:c440164 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:03:07 EDT <![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old']]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/leak-of-the-week-janet-jackson-20-years-old-201870.php#c439619 How I get tired of these same old asinine reviews. Artists don't make albums for sardonic twits like yourself. They make them for the fans. And JJ's are about the most devoted fans on the planet. That said, the album delivers, BIG TIME. It immediately reminded me of RN1814 & JANET, where there is something for everyone. I stopped valuing reviewers when they consider a song to be a flop when in it only charts on the Urban charts (at #1, mind you.)

Since pop artists have been feeding on & stealing black music for longer than Mad-donna has been gettin' into the groove, the Urban (say "black people", come on, say it...) audience is the only one that counts. Janet gives us what we want and we will give her the 1# album next week. And if "Enjoy" on 20YO doesn't make you happy, you are a deaf fool.

Stick your review in your Idolator and smoke it.

SAMIDAE

]]> 33:201870:c439619 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:15:15 EDT <![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old']]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/leak-of-the-week-janet-jackson-20-years-old-201870.php#c439100 I thought the album title was a reference to her daughter's age.

ReverendDrGladhands

]]> 33:201870:c439100 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:42:18 EDT <![CDATA[Leak Of The Week: Janet Jackson, '20 Years Old']]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/leak-of-the-week-janet-jackson-20-years-old-201870.php#c439075 packing on five skits

Six too many.

Ned Raggett

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