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Sam Sanders on Janet Jackson's Legacy

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Influence of Albums on Pop Music

In the nineties, janet jackson just kept going. In 93, she had another hit with a song that seemed to be everywhere for months by the fire. It was a lead single from her self titled album, blank,. Was number one on the billboard charts for eight weeks. But jimmy jam and terry lewis, they told me at irst janet didn't like the song. Her dancers had to convince her that it could be a hit. And what happened was, is very much what happened in the video, which was, she put the casette ono the tracks we were working on; when that track came on, she was with all her

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