Our second episode of the Take Two miniseries focuses on Janet Jackson's risqué and introspective album, The Velvet Rope. We discuss Janet's move to a more neo soul sound, how she matured as an artist when creating this record, and how Janet's gone underappreciated in the last decade.
More on The Velvet Rope
- ‘The Velvet Rope’: How Janet Jackson Tied Herself In Controversy (uDiscoverMusic)
- The Velvet Rope: how Janet Jackson inspired a whole generation (The Guardian)
- The Making of The Velvet Rope
Show Tracklisting (all songs from The Velvet Rope unless otherwise indicated):
- Anything
- What About
- My Need
- Interlude - Sad
- Can't Be Stopped
- Got 'Til It's Gone
- Together Again
- DJ Premier: Together Again (Remix)
- My Need
- Interlude - Speaker Phone
- Free Xone
- You
- I Get Lonely
- Go Deep
- Velvet Rope
- Rope Burn
- Missy Elliott: Pass Da Blunt
- Mariah Carey: My All
Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there.
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