Janet - Damita Jo (the iconic sync listen)

[POP!]

08 Damita Jo
09 Sexhibition
08 Strawberry Bounce
05 My Baby
10 Spending Time with You

 

[Pipo]

08 Damita Jo
09 Sexhibition
09 Strawberry Bounce
07 My Baby
04 Spending time with you

 

[POP!]

"Island Life" is a tropical bop, but her voice is truly WEAK AS PISS

 

[Pipo]

I totally forgot about Island Life. If Ariana released this it would sure smash every chart alive.

 

[POP!]

The strings in the bridge are QUITE ELEGANT though

 

[Jark]

10 Spending Time with You

04 Spending time with you

OMG. she wrote a proper chorus for Island Life. generous queen.

08 Damita Jo
06 Sexhibition
07 Strawberry Bounce
07 My Baby
08 Spending Time With You
09 Island Life

HEATING UP now

 

[POP!]

I like the sexy sounds
From the DJ
Damn I think he's SPINNING THIS ONE FOR ME!

*fucks DJ*

 

[Pipo]

08 Damita Jo
09 Sexhibition
09 Strawberry Bounce
07 My Baby
04 Spending time with you
07 Island life

 

[POP!]

08 Damita Jo
09 Sexhibition
08 Strawberry Bounce
05 My Baby
10 Spending Time with You
09 Island Life

 

[Pipo]

All Nite still goes hard years later. BOPPING.

 

[POP!]

ATTENTION
It's time TO DANCE!

 

[Jark]

on any other album I don't know if All Nite would JUMP OUT as a surefire single pick, but here it's screaming out. such a funky riff. I'm surprised it made top 20 in the UK, I don't remember that at all.

08 Damita Jo
06 Sexhibition
07 Strawberry Bounce
07 My Baby
08 Spending Time With You
09 Island Life
09 All Nite (Don't Stop)

 

[Pipo]

10 All Nite (Don't Stop)

 

[POP!]

For the flop it was, MTV played "All Nite" to death back in 2004. It really could have been a hit had Clear Channel not had it out for her after the Superbowl and ruined its chances at radio (the only path to a Hot 100 hit in '04)

 

[POP!]

08 Damita Jo
09 Sexhibition
08 Strawberry Bounce
05 My Baby
10 Spending Time with You
09 Island Life
09 All Nite

 

[Jark]

the sequencing of this album is ridiculous. she trolled us hard. starts off makin you think she's COMPLETELY LOST IT, and then every track for seven songs in a row is better than the last until you're in the realm of TENS. R&B Junkie fucking SLAPS! should've been the second single teebs.

joke's on us when we listened to 20YO expecting the same thing.

08 Damita Jo
06 Sexhibition
07 Strawberry Bounce
07 My Baby
08 Spending Time With You
09 Island Life
09 All Nite (Don't Stop)
10 R&B Junkie

 

[POP!]

"R&B Junkie" is DELICIOUS. And sounds better now than it did BACK THEN

 

[POP!]

08 Damita Jo
09 Sexhibition
08 Strawberry Bounce
05 My Baby
10 Spending Time with You
09 Island Life
09 All Nite
09 R&B Junkie

 

[Pipo]

11 R&B Junkie

 

[POP!]

Boy when YOU'RE UP
This girl is DOWN
And I just can't
FIGURE IT OUT

*cums in frustration*

 

[Jark]

I Want You is so creamy and delicious. THIS was a missed single opportunity.

08 Damita Jo
06 Sexhibition
07 Strawberry Bounce
07 My Baby
08 Spending Time With You
09 Island Life
09 All Nite (Don't Stop)
10 R&B Junkie
09 I Want You

 

[POP!]

"I Want You" is really lovely. One of her best singles this side of the millennium (perhaps after "Rock with U" and "Someone to Call My Lover"), and she looks incredible in the video.

 

[Jark]

loving the SAUCY JUXTAPOSITION of these interludes about being a young schoolgirl listening to the radio against all the STICKY SEX JAMZ.

 

[Pipo]

10 I Want you

I want this Kanye BACK not the shit one we have nowadays

 

[POP!]

I Want You is so creamy and delicious. THIS was a missed single opportunity.

Babe, it WAS and it FLOPPED

 

[Jark]

oh, I Want You was a single? OK, good

 

[POP!]

10 I Want you

I want this Kanye BACK not the shit one we have nowadays

Didn't realize it was a Kanye track

 

[POP!]

08 Damita Jo
09 Sexhibition
08 Strawberry Bounce
05 My Baby
10 Spending Time with You
09 Island Life
09 All Nite
09 R&B Junkie
10 I Want You

 

[POP!]

"Like You Don't Love Me" is CUTE FILLER and I'll leave it at THAT

 

[joanne]

11 All Nite (Don't Stop)

 

[POP!]

08 Damita Jo
09 Sexhibition
08 Strawberry Bounce
05 My Baby
10 Spending Time with You
09 Island Life
09 All Nite
09 R&B Junkie
10 I Want You
07 Like You Don't Love Me

 

[Jark]

Like You Don't Love Me has such BOPPY ENERGY. could've been a single. killer production. this record got really great in the middle.

08 Damita Jo
06 Sexhibition
07 Strawberry Bounce
07 My Baby
08 Spending Time With You
09 Island Life
09 All Nite (Don't Stop)
10 R&B Junkie
09 I Want You
09 Like You Don't Love Me

 

[Pipo]

Didn't realize it was a Kanye track

Kanye had a hand in about 4 tracks on this album! Want you, My baby, Strawberry bounce, and some demo that didn't make it onto the album.

 

[Jark]

whereas All For You CUMS A LITTLE EARLY.

 

[POP!]

"Thinkin' Bout My Ex" - was she already dating JD at this point ?

 

[Pipo]

Like you don't love sounds EXACTLY like Girl Talk by TLC

 

[Pipo]

00 Thinking about my Ex

woof

 

[POP!]

There's a nice classic Janet feel about "Thinking Bout My Ex". Kind of sounds like it would fit on Rhythm Nation, but its melody is a bit LACKING.

 

[POP!]

Like you don't love sounds EXACTLY like Girl Talk by TLC

It DOES

 

[Pipo]

might as well do this

-1 Warmth
-1 Moist