True magic happened when Janet Jackson met up with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and together the three came up with the mid-80’s classic “ Control“. This album is barely memorable other than the title and the cheese-tastic album cover. “Dream Street” is much worse though, the album is still POP but tries horribly to have darker themes in the songs and experiment with more new wave elements in the music. It’s just not anything that is unique or forward thinking as it’s your basic by-the-numbers Pop. The album overall is both sugary sweet and cheesy as hell, but it’s also pretty catchy at times. Thematically it talks all about young love (ha, hence the title of a single “Young Love”). The debut self-titled album is actually not bad for a 80’s teen album. The ill-informed debut albums from Janet that were huge flops and are basically forgotten about now. Let’s start with the two Janet Jackson that everyone tries to forget. That should definitely be your expectation if you want to get into some of Janet’s work and if you go in thinking that way it’s hard to be disappointed with the 8 albums Janet has blessed us with over the past 2 decades. Sure, she’s not really known for being incredibly deep or anything like that… she’s known for fun dance music (and a number of sexy baby-makers). Janet Jackson‘s Discography is a really great one.
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