![]() ![]() When she wasn’t linking different eras of her own influential discography - which spans across groove-heavy bedroom R&B, neo-soul, dance-pop, disco, house, industrial, new jack swing, funk and more - she mined current sonics. ![]() (That both were only age 6 when the movie was released is further proof of her timelessness.)Īfter emerging onstage amid a dark, Hitchcock-like video intro that featured a flurry of black animated birds - one used its beak to yank an arrow from its chest before soaring above the rest, presumably a metaphor for the personal and professional hurdles the singer faced in recent decades - Jackson ripped through a high-octane set crammed with dozens of her ubiquitous smashes. SIGN UP for the free Essential Arts & Culture newsletter >Įven rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake looked to the pop singer for inspiration, building their 2013 hit “Poetic Justice,” which gleaned its title from one of her film’s, around a Jackson sample. More than 30 years after she first broke in music, Jackson’s influence remains omnipresent in today’s pop landscape.įrom Rihanna’s sexual freedom and Beyonce’s push for female empowerment to Ciara’s acrobatic footwork to FKA Twigs and Tinashe’s slinky, imaginative interpretations of R&B, it’s all born from the blueprint Jackson drafted when she stepped out of the shadows of her more famous siblings and debuted the innovative R&B-pop she crafted alongside inventive production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Before Janet Jackson made her much anticipated return to music earlier this year, it had been seven years since her last full body of work - but you wouldn’t know it. ![]()
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