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“Together Again”—Janet Jackson

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Velvet Rope by Janet Masterbates

This is the saw on the velvet rope. And even the two samples here should not really work in tandom. The heaviness, the rad old school electro beat is hobo scratch by malcolm mc laren and the world's famous supreme team from 19 84. Well, that's mike oldfield's tubular bells from 19 73. That's even older school, i suppose. And yet, that's from the exorcists. So this is a semi erotic electro exorcism leading off an album in which a famously erotic, super famous pop star intends to exorcise her various demons. On paper or on opera, maybe it sounds both way to random and way too literal. But

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