Velvet Rope Janet Review

A retrospective review of janet jackson s 1997 album.

Velvet rope janet review.

It has inspired countless pop stars since to delve deeper within introspectively sharing the most personal details of their lives and experiences. Jackson s third blockbuster album implied sexuality with its teasing cover and seductive grooves its sequel the velvet rope is sexually explicit offering tales of bondage body piercing and bisexuality not that you d necessarily know that from listening to the velvet rope since the album sags with endless interludes murmured vocals and subdued urban grooves. Janet killed me softly with the velvet rope cd in that she was singing my life with her words. Being the let s get it on to rhythm nation s what s going on then 1997 s the velvet rope is clearly her i want you respectively jackson s and gaye s best and least heralded albums both incidentally recognized at the end of their creators respective marriages the chief difference between the velvet rope the least perfect album.

I f janet jackson made much ado of janet. The velvet rope is the sixth studio album by american singer janet jackson the album was released on october 7 1997 through virgin records prior to its release she renegotiated her contract with virgin for us 80 million the largest recording contract in history at that time. Executive producer terry lewis producer jimmy jam producer steve hodge recording engineer aka text mixing role id 1327 aka text xavier smith assistant engineer. This is not only the best work of janet s but the best of producers jimmy jam terry lewis as well.

The velvet rope still the listeners most likely to be upset by the album will doubtless worry less about its degree of explicitness than the kind of sex jackson is exploring. The velvet rope was probably one of the most personal albums ever released by a pop star of janet s magnitude at the time rivaled by the liked of fellow 1997 release mariah carey s butterfly. The cd opens with the clever and mysterious title track that invites us into a lair filled with demons that she bravely faced at that point in her life. Released 7 october 1997 on virgin catalog no.

By mark keen janet returned in 1997 with her sixth album the opus which is the velvet rope. The 77 minute velvet rope is part of a continuum building from the self empowering manifesto control the skin deep social consciousness of rhythm nation and the hypersexual make over of janet. 7243 8 44762 2 9.