Janet Jackson - Feedback

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Jaw-droppingly good:

* Janet invades a planet in space with her army of space dudes.
* Janet dances infront of some milk.
* Janet looks awesome.
* The song is fantastic.

This deserves to be absolutely huge.

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of "Breakin' Dishes." So what's the predicted expiration date on the T-Pain Autotune thing? Should we start a pool?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i'm quite sick of that effect already and it's not like Janet needs it - but this is good nonetheless.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh it's better than that, it's lighter, there's space for the song to exist; plus Janet's candyfloss voice is so much better suited to the style.

Anyway I've been meaning to post this for ages - LOVE IT. Video pretty good too, I like the way they keep you wanting more dancing before finally busting out the moves in the middle eight. Would be pretty much perfect if she'd excised that "heavy like a first day period" line - tbh the imagery in the video doesn't help matters here :/ Pity because "strum me like a guitar" is a great hook.

Sounds especially fantastic in the context of Rich Juzwiak's awesome Idolator 4/4 mix (http://pop.idolator.com/319055/2007-in-the-mix-rich-juzwiak).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

OH GOD I hadn't heard the period line *reaches for brain brillo pad*

I like the bit at the end where she's juggling balls of light. There's NO NEED for it at all, like she's saying to us "look, I've just done a great video, you want me doing MORE stuff? Fine, I'll kick these balls about and show off my skills, then make everything shoot up in the air. HAH!"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I saw this on The Hits the other day. I love having The Hits again. Anyway I thought it was OK though not incredible: I don't think I've liked Janet's floaty voice since about 1992 though I can't pin down exactly what if anything changed. At the end of the video I seem to recall a load of SP3RMZ flying up into space.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Also I guess it is a sign of my selling out to the man that when I hear people singing about feedback I no longer think of dudes rocking out with howlin' noise but instead a line manager preparing an appraisal. :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

One of the best things about the song is that there is no feedback in it (or indeed any guitar), apart from about a second of it at the end buried DEEP in the mix.

I think Janet is referring to appraisals as well as guitar noise!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I just read on wikipedia that the milk is meant to represent THE MILKY WAY because she is in SPACE DO YOU SEE.

(awesome!)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Hits is so awesome, unless they're showing one of the crapper list shows (eg Sum 41's Top 20 Gross-out videos or something). I like the 'mix' things they've started doing recently - some of them are super-clumsy obv but I love the way they mix bits of the video together as well. Last night they did Chamillionaire's Hip Hop Police into Fergie's Glamorous and it was SO GREBT I had to listen to the Fergie album on the bus into work this morning.

Back to Janet - I really love that she's still doing Paula Abdul style dancing after all this time. I heart choreography so much.