Thematically a much deeper album than Control, it focused on pressing socio-political issues, but, singles-wise, kicked off with a pining love song, “Miss You Much.” The song was delivered via a hammering dance groove that reprised the aggressive style and sparse sonics of Control. Three years after Control, Janet Jackson reconvened with Jam and Lewis in their Flyte Tyme Studios in Minneapolis to record Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814. The track reached No.3 on the US R&B charts and No.6 in the UK. Riding on a mellow, hip-hop-inspired groove, Jackson – who had started presenting herself as Janet, rather than Janet Jackson – is accompanied by A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip. This song’s title took its inspiration directly from Joni Mitchell’s 1970 protest song “Big Yellow Taxi,” whose chorus (“You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone”) it sampled. It was popular, too, in the UK, where it peaked at No.4. Though the song made No.8 on the US R&B chart, it rose to No.1 in the Hot 100.
Lighter in tone, though, is “Together Again,” a pop-dance excursion with hints of Motown and house music in its musical DNA. This was the second single taken from Jackson’s 1997 album, The Velvet Rope, a frank confessional that addressed the singer’s purported battle with depression as well as subjects ranging from domestic violence to sexual identity. It also spent a week at the top of the US R&B charts. The tune was co-written by Jackson’s producers with former New Edition members Michael Bivins and Ronnie DeVoe (then two-thirds of the group Bell Biv DeVoe) and was nominated for a Grammy. In between her Rhythm Nation and janet albums, Jackson duetted with silky-voiced soul crooner Luther Vandross on this upbeat Jam & Lewis-helmed tune, which was taken from the soundtrack to the film Mo’ Money, a comedy starring siblings Damon and Marlon Wayans.
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14: The Best Things In Life Are Free (1992)
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