Janet’s latest is produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins and goes for the modern afro-latin pop sound popularized by Pitbull the last couple of years. Pit appears here of course, although we’re not quite sure why he chose to interpolate “Watagatapitusbery” at this point in the game. Anyway, sounds like pretty standard club fare. Can’t see [cont.]

You have to hand it to Janet Jackson: she’s not giving up. Even though this decade hasn’t been as kind to her as the previous one, and her last two albums have been disappointments – by her standards anyway, since they still went platinum – she’s regrouped on Island Records for her tenth full-length effort, [cont.]