Disciplined to Thrill

Janet's Discipline album cover

The owner of the world's most famous tit-piercing is at her most alluring S&M-brand of music, again.

"Light skin, dark skin ; My Asian Persuasion. Do you like my Style? Yeah I'm Sexy sexy sexy.",

she coos. (And she's not singing about her famous brother, I hope.)

Yeah, I like her style. Sexy. Indeed. And, yes, she's taking in all the Feedback.

While her ultra glossy previous album '20 Y.O' bombed due to dismal promotion and her trying to go mainstream and Mariah-ish, this time round, Miss Janet is having all her Son(s)-of-a-Gun out and going back to her roots of edgy dance pop she learnt so well from brother Michael.

Be enamoured by the top-notch production of the lead single 'Feedback' and ignore the over-ambitious music video and you'll actually find yourself hitting the replay button.

Then there is the whole album of gems (and jams) which you'd be head over heals with in no time at all.

The song to highlight is the ultra-edgy, and certainly, not so subtle in its message and intent, 'So Much Betta'.

In this track, the studio wizardy that transforms Janet into a sexual-hobbit and have her chanting hypnotically 'Tired of being Number two, I can do what she can do. So much betta, I'm for you." Such an immense ear-worm.

Now, try making a wild guess which dog-whistling demi-goddess she's referring to.

(Hint.)<

It really doesn't take much discipline for yourself to sit down and have a spin, it will get you hooked from the word go. It's that good.

Indeed, Kyoko, the apparent femme-bot-cum-music-player-cum-lifestyle whatever, which is oh-so-polite to Miss Janet and hums to her every whim, rounds up what is probably, Miss J's best album in years.

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Also from the Jackson clan, the other famous being, , is celebrating his 25-th Anniversary of his mega-selling album, 'Thriller'.

Any album which has hit the record books as being the World's Biggest Selling Album of All time, selling over 45 million copies, has got to have enough clout for an exclusive relaunch.

(Album or flagging-career, you decide.)

Song's like the #1 hit 'Billy Jean' , 'Thriller' featuring the late and charming Vincent Price as well as a slew of other Top 10 hits such as 'The Girl is Mine' and 'Beat It', that made this album an 8-Grammy Award-winning album, remains here in all its heyday glory.

Then there are the really smoove 2008 updates of some of the hits featuring the likes of current-day big wigs like Will-I-Am, Fergie, Akon and Kanye West.

Will-I-Am is bursting with regae-tivity while his gal-prodige, Fergie, is as big-lunged and manic as ever.

Akon is still depressingly groovy in a Shawn Kingston-soppy kind of way.
Really shining above the rest though is the midas touch of Kanye West for 'Billie Jean' that screams (pun intended) #1 Hit all over again.

Befitting an Anniversary edition, this album comes with a disc 2 DVD that contains the famous-as-hell (pun indended again) videos for Billie Jean, Beat It and of course, Thriller.

Both discs are Gold-plated and all 10+6 tracks are fully digitally remastered, all packed impressivey in a glossy sleeve with a pre-opt Michael up front and a 'Thriller-fied' him at the back. An irony in itself.

As Vincent Price husks in track 10,

'Michael Jackson is The Thriller. Can you dig it? "

You betcha. 45 million others have.


If you love pop and strange noses (seriously, I do mean 'nose' not 'noise'), both Janet's and Michael's latest offerings are Must-gets.

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