After a 20-year career with enough sing-along hits, memorable videos and tours that have elevated her to icon status, Janet Jackson isn't trying to fade into retirement. Despite her longtime romance with producer Jermaine Dupri, and the possibility that the now 41-year-old superstar might want to settle down and nest, she's not quite ready to hang up her high-heeled Louboutins.
So her 10th studio album, Discipline, due in stores February 26th, 2008, has become critical to her continued reign atop the pop charts. It is the first of her much-publicized move to Island Def Jam after several years with Virgin. Def Jam previewed the album for journalists this past week and one thing is for sure - Ne-Yo and The-Dream are going to be very rich men in a few years, if not already. Ne-Yo is credited on several songs on Discipline, including the title track and The-Dream is also a writer on the CD. Rodney Jerkins, Dupri, Stargate and Missy Elliott are also producers.
Discipline is a solid effort from Jackson, reminiscent of her hit CD's Janet and The Velvet Rope, despite the fact that there is no production at all from her longtime collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Apparently, they've been abandoned for a group of younger, established hitmakers, though Jackson has had her greatest success under their watch.
But every good relationship comes to an end, and Jam and Lewis have made enough money on Janet to retire comfortably, should they choose to. Janet's perch as reigning dance queen diva has been shaken by upstarts like Ciara, who's apparently a worthy enough up-and-comer that she's jumped on what appears to be an unofficial remix of "Feedback," Jackson's speaker-blowing first up-tempo single. "Feedback" is a throwback not just to Jackson's early dance tracks, but to producer Rodney Jerkins' boombastic productions.
Source: BET.com
So her 10th studio album, Discipline, due in stores February 26th, 2008, has become critical to her continued reign atop the pop charts. It is the first of her much-publicized move to Island Def Jam after several years with Virgin. Def Jam previewed the album for journalists this past week and one thing is for sure - Ne-Yo and The-Dream are going to be very rich men in a few years, if not already. Ne-Yo is credited on several songs on Discipline, including the title track and The-Dream is also a writer on the CD. Rodney Jerkins, Dupri, Stargate and Missy Elliott are also producers.
Discipline is a solid effort from Jackson, reminiscent of her hit CD's Janet and The Velvet Rope, despite the fact that there is no production at all from her longtime collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Apparently, they've been abandoned for a group of younger, established hitmakers, though Jackson has had her greatest success under their watch.
But every good relationship comes to an end, and Jam and Lewis have made enough money on Janet to retire comfortably, should they choose to. Janet's perch as reigning dance queen diva has been shaken by upstarts like Ciara, who's apparently a worthy enough up-and-comer that she's jumped on what appears to be an unofficial remix of "Feedback," Jackson's speaker-blowing first up-tempo single. "Feedback" is a throwback not just to Jackson's early dance tracks, but to producer Rodney Jerkins' boombastic productions.
Source: BET.com
