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Janet Jackson - Discipline
| Allmusic | | A few lines from a couple songs and some suggestive presentation guarantees that a significant amount of the reaction to Discipline, Janet's tenth studio album, will feast upon the singer's lack of judiciousness when it comes to expressing her sexuality. Leave the teasing and explicitness to the teens and younger twenty-somethings -- not the grown women -- right? Janet should get back to making sunny, uncomplicated songs like "Escapade" and pretend that the occasional-to-frequent salaciousness extending back to Control never existed. She should do that and, while she is at it, act her age. (When the three years younger R. Kelly releases his next album, no protests of a similar nature will be heard; ditto whenever the Rolling Stones perform "Brown Sugar.") While Discipline is dressed up like a racy affair with track-to-track titillation, it has only a couple moments where Janet takes the S&M imagery further, and more deeply personal, than she did on The Velvet Rope; the majority of its subject matter relates to the more common elements of relationships....full text |
| | Villagevoice | | Sure, Madonna repeatedly toyed with BDSM in her videos, but she never publicly admitted to breast and genital piercings like Miss Jackson did. So, in case you weren't tipped off from the Velvet Rope tour onwards, Janet's innocuous Dream Street ingenue had to die so a baby dominatrix could be born—one with enough foot-stomping power and petulance to bend bossy parents, nasty boys, and the pleasure principle itself to her indomitable will. Now, seven studio albums later, Discipline reiterates the premise of Control, but as its fully mature apotheosis....full text |
| | Calendarlive | | Everybody knows Janet Jackson likes her fantasies. The whisper-voiced star has been purveying elegant soft-core for half of her two decades in the musical spotlight, transforming herself into pop's equivalent of Anaïs Nin. (It's fun to think that Madonna gave up smut for spirituality, in part, because she realized Janet had claimed the corner on being nasty.) That Miss Jackson continues to explore subjects like bondage and autoeroticism should disappoint no one; to ask her to cease is like asking Bruce Springsteen to stop writing about girls in their summer clothes....full text |
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