Damita Jo

“For allegedly being an expose on yet another side and persona within Janet Jackson that we haven't met yet, Damita Jo is pretty par for the course w”

Damita Jo

“For allegedly being an expose on yet another side and persona within Janet Jackson that we haven't met yet, Damita Jo is pretty par for the course with all of Janet's recent output. It shares the wild inconsistency of All For You, the hyper-sexual murmuring of janet., and the autobiographical bent of her two greatest works: Rhythm Nation and The Velvet Rope. The problem is that it's overloaded with dead weight. 

Hidden somewhere within Damita Jo is a fun, sexy, breezy and danceable ten song soul/R&B/dance/pop album. The worst offenders are the one-two punch of mumbled pornographic-talk "Moist" and "Warmth." Somewhere along the line Janet mistook deranged, borderline psycho-sexual and crazed sexual satisfaction for the warm eroticism of "That's the Way Love Goes." <” read more