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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. The likes of "Never Letchu Go" (a sweet, glistening ballad), "Luv" (carrying a brisk, feel-good clap-and-bounce), "Rollercoaster" (suitably jittery and giddy), and "Can't B Good" (practically a descendent of her brother Michael's "Can't Help It," with that gentle and affecting self-examination that only a Jackson can do so well) are as innocent, universal, and inviting as anything else in Janet's past. There are two irresistible, grade-A dancefloor tracks as well: the swift, swooning "Rock with U" (that is the correct title) and the more aggressive (as in "let's throw down") "2Nite." The absence of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis is not felt, not with Ne-Yo, the-Dream, Tricky Stewart, and Stargate stepping up to contribute with established Janet collaborators Johnta Austin, Rodney Jerkins, and of course Jermaine Dupri (who brought Janet with him to Island from Virgin). Janet probably won't hit that late-'80s peak again, but that is no excuse to write her off.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - IAN CROSS, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Donaldson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dernst Emile II, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer, Additional Producer - LaShawn Daniels, ComposerLyricist - Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Josh Houghkirk, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Carlos Oyanedel, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer, Additional Producer - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - IAN CROSS, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Donaldson, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tasleema Yasin, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dernst Emile II, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Roberto Vasquez, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
LaShawn Daniels, Author - Rodney Jerkins, Composer, Producer, Mix Engineer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Josh Houghkirk, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Carlos Oyanedel, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dave Clauss, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - IAN CROSS, Producer, Recording Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Donaldson, Recording Engineer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Tasleema Yasin, Author - Dernst Emile II, Composer, Producer, Unknown, Other - Christopher Soper, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - IAN CROSS, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer - Rodney Jerkins, Composer, Producer, Mix Engineer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Timothy Thomas, Author - Theron Thomas, Author, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Josh Houghkirk, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Carlos Oyanedel, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer - Dave Clauss, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - IAN CROSS, Producer, Recording Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - R. City, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dernst Emile II, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Soper, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kegan Houston, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roberto Vasquez, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - IAN CROSS, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Greggs, Producer - Telisha Shaw, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Jillan Meyers, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Viecco, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer - Josh Houghkirk, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Stamile, Producer, Co-Producer, ComposerLyricist - PHIL TAN, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shaffer Smith, ComposerLyricist - Carlos Oyanedel, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - John Horesco IV, Guitar, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - IAN CROSS, Producer, Recording Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Angie Teo, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christopher Soper, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer - Tor Erik Hermansen, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Mikkel S. Eriksen, Recording Engineer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Danny D, Unknown, Other - Taj Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Tim Blacksmith, Unknown, Other - Josh Houghkirk, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Carlos Oyanedel, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer - StarGate, Producer - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - IAN CROSS, Producer, Recording Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer - Josh Houghkirk, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shaffer Smith, Author - Carlos Oyanedel, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer - John Horesco IV, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ne-Yo, Producer, Co-Producer - IAN CROSS, Producer, Recording Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David Gough, Composer, Producer - Jaymz Hardy-Martin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Woodring, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - IAN CROSS, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Johntá Austin, ComposerLyricist - Manuel Seal, Producer, Co-Producer, ComposerLyricist - Ernest Isley, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Josh Houghkirk, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Carlos Oyanedel, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - John Horesco IV, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - IAN CROSS, Producer, Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Christopher Soper, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
LaShawn Daniels, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Delisha Thomas, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - IAN CROSS, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Donaldson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dernst Emile II, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer - Christopher Stewart, Composer, Producer - Terius Nash, Author, Producer - Brian Thomas, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jaycen Joshua, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dave Pensado, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kuk Harrell, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer - Pat Thrall, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - IAN CROSS, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Christy Hall, Unknown, Other - Judi Acosta-Stewart, Unknown, Other - Andruw Wuepper, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - IAN CROSS, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Greggs, Producer
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer, Co-Producer, ComposerLyricist - Crystal Johnson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Josh Houghkirk, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Carlos Oyanedel, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - John Horesco IV, Engineer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - IAN CROSS, Producer, Recording Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - IAN CROSS, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Greggs, Producer
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer, Co-Producer, ComposerLyricist - Ernest Isley, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Missy Elliott, FeaturedArtist - Crystal Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Josh Houghkirk, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Carlos Oyanedel, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - No ID, Producer, Co-Producer - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - John Horesco IV, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - IAN CROSS, Producer, Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Melissa Elliott, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer, Co-Producer, ComposerLyricist - Crystal Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Josh Houghkirk, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Carlos Oyanedel, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - John Horesco IV, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - IAN CROSS, Producer, Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Nate Alfrod, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
LaShawn Daniels, ComposerLyricist - Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Delisha Thomas, ComposerLyricist - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, MainArtist - IAN CROSS, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Donaldson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dernst Emile II, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer, Additional Producer - Shea Taylor, Composer, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Josh Houghkirk, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Shaffer Smith, Author - Carlos Oyanedel, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer, Additional Producer - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ne-Yo, Producer, Co-Producer - IAN CROSS, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Daniel Laporte, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Robert Taylor, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - IAN CROSS, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Greggs, Producer
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Eric Dawkins, Vocal Arranger, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - LaShawn Daniels, Author, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Rodney Jerkins, Composer, Producer, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Antonio Dixon, Author - PHIL TAN, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Foley, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, Producer, Background Vocalist, Singer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - IAN CROSS, Producer, Engineer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Donaldson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Dawson, Author - Christopher Soper, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Stewart, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Mo Horns, Horn, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer - Charles Harmon, Composer - Chuck Harmony, Producer, Recording Engineer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel - Josh Houghkirk, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Shaffer Smith, Author - Carlos Oyanedel, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer - John Horesco IV, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JANET JACKSON, MainArtist - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ne-Yo, Producer, Co-Producer - IAN CROSS, Producer, Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jesse Bond, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2008 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Manuel Seal, Producer, Additional Producer - LaShawn Daniels, ComposerLyricist - Rodney Jerkins, Producer, Mixer, Unknown, Other, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Josh Houghkirk, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - PHIL TAN, Mixer, Additional Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Carlos Oyanedel, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer, Additional Producer - JANET JACKSON, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Steven Barlow, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - IAN CROSS, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ralphi Rosario, Producer, Engineer, Remixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Donaldson, Editor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tasleema Yasin, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dernst Emile II, Producer, Unknown, Other, ComposerLyricist - Craig Snider, Producer - Roberto Vasquez, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2008 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
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. The likes of "Never Letchu Go" (a sweet, glistening ballad), "Luv" (carrying a brisk, feel-good clap-and-bounce), "Rollercoaster" (suitably jittery and giddy), and "Can't B Good" (practically a descendent of her brother Michael's "Can't Help It," with that gentle and affecting self-examination that only a Jackson can do so well) are as innocent, universal, and inviting as anything else in Janet's past. There are two irresistible, grade-A dancefloor tracks as well: the swift, swooning "Rock with U" (that is the correct title) and the more aggressive (as in "let's throw down") "2Nite." The absence of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis is not felt, not with Ne-Yo, the-Dream, Tricky Stewart, and Stargate stepping up to contribute with established Janet collaborators Johnta Austin, Rodney Jerkins, and of course Jermaine Dupri (who brought Janet with him to Island from Virgin). Janet probably won't hit that late-'80s peak again, but that is no excuse to write her off.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:25
- Main artists: Janet Jackson
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Island Def Jam
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2023 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2023 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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