She executive-produced the documentary alongside Randy Jackson. The news comes in advance of the release of Janet, a four-hour documentary that chronicles her personal life and career that arrives in January via Lifetime and A&E. The album will find her reuniting with production/songwriting duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, as well as collaborating with Darrel Randle, Ralph Johnson (a founding member of Earth, Wind & Fire), Siedah Garret, and Marcel East. Jackson offered no additional details about the forthcoming single, although she did reveal production credits for the album, which will be her first since 2015’s Unbreakable. No one but Jackson can directly reference previous triumphs, address her audience, and yet move forward quite like this.Janet Jackson announced that she will release a new album in 2022, and that a new single will arrive by the end of this year via her label, Rhythm Nation Records. There are dashes of classic Philly soul and Minneapolis funk, and it ends with a more explicit link to the past - a whirlwind funk blast liable to prompt Jackson 5 and Sly & the Family Stone flashbacks, all the way down to Tommy McClendon's Larry Graham-style low-end interjections. She covers romantic contentment and inner strength most frequently, highlighted by the grooving "Broken Hearts Heal" and "Black Butterfly" descendant "Black Eagle," and veers into societal turmoil, as timely now as Rhythm Nation 1814 was in 1989. A greater amount of the productions are better suited to Jackson. The probing synthesizers, booming bass, and relatively detached vocal in "Dammn Baby" come across as conscious concessions to commercial radio, and a couple cuts are structured like contemporary dance-pop singles disconnected from soul.
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While the album is unrelentingly positive and clean-cut - a relief for listeners who winced at the lurid content laced through Discipline and certain earlier points in the discography - it's a little erratic in style and quality. Those three songs only hinted at the number of angles worked on Unbreakable.
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And then, to increase the intensity and anticipation even more, there was "Burnitup!," a simultaneously hard and light dance track with Missy Elliott hyping the crowd.
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Second was the title cut, the album's lead track, where Jackson expresses thankfulness over a relaxed and wistful groove, her lead and background vocals in the chorus arranged to stellar effect. Cole verse, is a first-rate rippling slow jam, ideal for her re-emergence. "No Sleeep," unfortunately present here in its longer form that involves a J. The three singles that immediately preceded Unbreakable were clearly chosen for their range. Seven years after Discipline, Jackson returns recharged, and on a BMG-supported label she established, with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis - the demigods central to her best work - as well as a small crew of additional associates, as her collaborators. Jackson left two labels during the decade and dealt with personal matters that included the death of brother Michael.
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They lacked the staying power of the Control-to- Velvet Rope run, however, and quickly slipped out of view. All four of Janet Jackson's albums released during the 2000s debuted near or at the top of the Billboard 200, as ensured by a legion of devotees.