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“Together Again”—Janet Jackson

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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I Want Lil With You Just Ten

This is the son that's pretty explicitly about a past abusive relationship. I want li l with you just ten she and her lover are taking a romantic walk on the beach. There's like seven more songs after this one, and most of them are tender ballads or quite amorous overtures. And it's just shocking to me that this record survives this song. The fury and the awful gravity of what about doesn't totally de stabilize or negate everything around it, but it co exists. It all fits together.

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