Its music incorporates pop rock, electro, house, and hip hop styles, in addition to R& B. The album takes its title from Jacksons middle name. It was released on March 30, 2004, by Virgin Records. Damita Jo is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson.
The album takes its title from Jacksons middle name, and experiments with various genres including rock, electro, house, and hip hop in addition to Jacksons trademark styles of dance-pop and R&B. Yet, with the benefit of hindsight, flashing the nation at the Super Bowl looks like a lousy career choice by Janet Jackson.Damita Jo is the eighth studio album by Janet Jackson, released on March 22, by Virgin Records. Damita Jo - Janet's eighth album - continues down the slightly downward path that kicked off around 1993's Janet.In the scandal-prone world of midriff-pop, there's not much downside to a little bit of infamy. It's a shame then, that Janet's new album lacks the same kind of impact.
Damita Jo (Nielsen Music data) 1,100,395 album-equivalent units earned in the U.S. It should have been obvious well before she rigged up that tearaway bra: Bare a boob on TV, and you better not deliver a bust.The most accurate and up to date Janet Jackson charts and sales. It did spark the kind of outrage that Britney dreams about every time her head hits the pillow, but it also elevated expectations for Janet's next album, which hit stores yesterday.
Jackson's evolution from that fist-crossing, chair-tossing power dancer she was in the late '80s and toward the self-obsessed seductress we first met in 1993 on "janet." The beats on "Damita" are mostly erotic and mid-tempo, the vocals are generally breathy and pushed to the back of the mix and the music is humid with sex. Janet Damita Jo Jackson is the youngest of Joe and Katherine Jacksons."Damita Jo" isn't exactly a bust, but it's a pretty middling effort. The album would sell in excess of 100 million copies, and essentially the. Adopting a new, sexually adventurous alter ego, Janet explores the depths of her erotic desires through sultry slow jams like 'Spending Time With You' and sizzling, midtempo dance-floor numbers like 'Sexhibition.' Alongside guest performers, including Babyface and Kanye. This album is so hot it practically glistens with sweat.
For all the time we've spent admiring her gifts, we don't really know much about Janet, except that she always seemed like the reachable Jackson, the Jackson who, relatively speaking, was at ease with herself. When she moans and boasts through "Warmth" - one of the more explicit paeans to oral sex you'll ever hear on a major label - she sounds like she knows better and is pretending that she doesn't.But that's a guess. A youngster can get X-rated and come across as a wayward kid who has plenty of time to straighten out her act. Janet is in danger of being overshadowed by a generation of far younger performers who weren't in their teens when she founded the "Rhythm Nation." Youth is a very considerable asset in this line of work, and not just because it's easier for a 20-year-old to wedge into a pleather bodysuit. Like getting naked on network television, "Damita" has about it a hint of desperation.Which was inevitable. And so the album might remind listeners of the publicity stunt that preceded it.
("I love the palm trees, I love the sand," she says at one point, about her favorite island, Anguilla, to the sound of waves lapping against a shore.) And Janet has decided that the only way to fight her imitators is get even racier than they get, even if that might cost her a little dignity.With longtime producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis again in charge of most of the tracks, Jackson lowers her voice to a neo-soul purr on songs like "Moist," a pornographic tribute to a lover over a beat as misty as summer rain. The album is interrupted every 15 minutes for a running, first-person narration of her likes and dislikes. But listening to "Damita Jo" - it's her middle names, by the way - you get the sense of the combination of flop-sweat and self-absorption that went into concocting that wardrobe malfunction. It's the place where narcissism has run riot over common sense.Of course, Janet was baiting us with that "costume reveal," and just as obviously she didn't realize at the time how much chum she was throwing in the water.
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