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Article: JANET JACKSON CARVES HER OWN SOCIAL PROTEST NICHE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 17, 1989
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Sexual realism was the theme of Janet Jackson's first album,
"Control." Released in 1986, it sold 5 million copies and scored
six steamy radio hits: "Nasty," "What Have You Done For Me Lately,"
"When I Think of You," "Let's Wait Awhile," "Control" and "Pleasure
Principle."
Realism is again the theme of a Jackson album, the new "Janet
Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814," although this time it doesn't
concern the bedroom, but instead, the streets. She may be Michael
Jackson's younger sister, but she takes an unsparing look at the
real world.
Janet Jackson, whose album is due Tuesday from A&M Records,
has made a remarkably risky, conscience-assaulting album. Where she
used to treat the dance ...