009: Janet Jackson - Control (1986)
Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast
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Janet Jackson's Videos
A lot of it is analog. Like the album sort of sits at an interesting crossroads, but I'm planning to discuss that in a later track. One little thing that caught me was she's wearing a giant hoop earring with a house key attached to it. It turns out when she was a kid, she and Michael were in charge of the Jackson family menagerie. She started keeping the key to the cages on her earring just to have it handy. And that kind of turned into a fashion statement, and it is a very cool little bit of a fashion statement.
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