From Can’t Explain (who does all of these, not me)…..
Janet Jackson, “When I Think of You” (1986)
Given the long-simmering rivalry between Prince and Michael Jackson, I always used to wonder what it meant when producers/funk savants Terry Lewis & Jimmy Jam broke away from one of Prince’s biggest pet projects, the Time, and made their own project of turning Michael’s little sister into a superstar. Also too, given that rivalry, I wonder why Michael Jackson named not one but two of his kids “Prince.” Well, anyway, the good news is that whatever problems existed between those two never amounted to an “either/or” choice for the rest of us, but rather a “both/and”—nothing stopping anyone from loving both Control and Parade, both Sign O’ the Times and Rhythm Nation 1914. “When I Think of You,” a Flyte Tyme production, was Janet Jackson’s first #1, and still one of my favorites by her.
Can’t get enough of the Flyte Tyme sound:
SOS Band, “Tell Me If You Still Care”
Alexander O’Neal, “A Broken Heart Can Mend”
More at Can’t Explain.
cathyx
Wasn’t one of Michael’s nicknames prince of pop? Or was it king of pop?
harlana
this OWS stuff is really bringing out the worst in some people
signed,
Trapped in Red State
S.O.S.
Jenny
1814 not 1914
gbear
IIRC, The Time was actually Alexander O’Neal’s band before Prince took them away. Some people I worked with in Mpls were kind of pissed that Prince messed with Flyte Time.
Cat Lady
@harlana:
Hang on. We’re in the midst of a paradigm shift in consciousness – like birth pangs – and not everyone is going to survive the convulsions. The hive mind is recalibrating human intelligence and it’s just going to take some more dying off of the slow-to-adapt members of the herd. Sorry red staters.
lamh35
I love me some Janet.
BTW, if you want to start a gripping conversation in your neighborhood Black barbershop, go ahead and ask ’em MJ or Prince. Besides the usual, questions like “back in the day who would have thought that MJ would become a bigger freak than Prince? The rest of the discussion would be very interesting.
I love all the early Janet stuff, but this one was on loop in my cassette player (remember those…lol) .
Janet Jackson – Let’s Wait Awhile
Mainly because I was the age where most teenaged girls are thinking about more “adult” things if you know what I mean…lol.
Sweetest song about virginity and first love ever, IMHO. Funny enough, Janet was already NOT a virgin, she was secretly married to one of the members of Debarge!
JenJen
Oh, I have always loved that video, and haven’t seen it in years. Thanks, DougJ!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the entire video a long take?
JPK
@Jenny: Oop, typo!
lamh35
I’m an R&B girl all the way, and I love me some Pop R&B and Janet J was the biggest during her heyday.
But I was raised on R&B quiet storm classics, so even though I”m only 35, that’s where my musical heart lies. It’s want overpopulates my Ipod music files and it’s what I play when I need to unwind.
Totally unrelated, but maybe not that much, but there have been a number of articles lately about AA love, marriage, dating, etc and many of them suggest that Black women should date outside of their race more often … my response has always been…”find me a white/latino/arab/asia/whatever other raced-dude who loves Frankie Beverly & Maze as much as we do in NOLA and I’m all in”…lol
Maze & Frankie Beverly “Happy Feelins” Live in New Orleans
Frankie Beverly & Maze are an INSTITUTION in New Orleans. As anyone (especially an AA) from New Orleans if the love of Frankie Beverly & Maze would be a deal-breaker and I betcha they will pause to think about it..lol
gbear
OT, but I really hope that this guy was also BJ’s troll:
stinkwrinkle
Questions involving “Why” and “Michael Jackson” are bound to be answered in an unsatisfactory manner.
Odie Hugh Manatee
As a guitarist, JJ’s Black Cat is a rockin’ piece to jam to. I really hoped that she would continue in that vein (rock) but unfortunately it was a one-off song.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh35: I like the linked song. But I think I like this one better.
AA+ Bonds
BTW your Flash ad for Change.org petitions is leaking out of the left margin and over the text of posts in Google Chrome
Kola Noscopy
@JenJen:
JenJen, it is filmed to appear to be one long take, but if you pay close attention, you can see that there are maybe four breaks, where doorways or extreme, split second closeup/blackouts are used to mask a break between takes.
Regardless, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this video. Never can decide if Control or Rhythm Nation is my fave.
Either way, Miss Jackson (if you’re nasty!) rocked the 80s.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh35: Hey, here is nearly an hour of what looks like the concert from which your clip came. You are welcome.
Linnaeus
Ah, good memories here.
JenJen
@Kola Noscopy: Thank you!! It looks like a long take regardless, so the director did a good job, but really, it’s one of the best videos ever made, period.
Alison
@Odie Hugh Manatee: That was always my favorite track of hers! There used to be a pub near me called the Black Cat and whenever I drove past it, I’d start singing that song in my head :P
elftx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bn6Itz9WuQ&feature=related
Thanks all for helping me to remember Anita Baker..just loved this song of hers so much
AxelFoley
DougJ’s gotta be a brotha. He’s gotta be.
khead
After I saw the link to The Time last night it made me wish I had dropped this tune into the thread.
Paul in KY
@lamh35: I like Galactic. Saw them at Bonnaroo. Does that count?