I needed a break from Babs, lol. Her catalog is so vast though, you can almost find anything you want if you try hard enough. 

 

Though Alright was a top 5 hit, it was the lowest charting single off Rhythm Nation and was clearly very New Jack Swing influenced, so probably wasn't for everyone (the video is great fun though). 

 

My favorite remixes from the first half of Janet's career are Shep Pettibone's remixes for The Pleasure Principle:

 

I like Babs music too but haven't listened to it in years. What I like about Janet is that her original versions of her songs were always the best IMO and the remixes were never needed. Sometimes an artist's song really stinks until you have remixed one example for me was Nelly Furtado's "Turn off the Light". The original version was just so bad.. Once it was remixed it was a major hit and such a different better song by a long mile. 

In the 80s, 90s, and early 00s if you were a pop artist whose career was primarily fueled by singles, you had to have your songs remixed for club exposure and for different radio formats. Madonna was/is the queen of the remix market and was probably the artist who really invented the modern concept of the maxi-single. Janet was a strong contender through for a while. 

 

But pop marketing changed a lot by the mid-00s and remixes and maxi-singles (let alone standard single) releases became a rare breed. 

Edited February 27, 20169 yr by BetterForgotten

One of the best songs ever!!!!

 

 

 

Such a lovely version of this theme. 

 

This song scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. I always interpreted the "Didn't know the price we had to pay" line as someone dying. 

One of those songs that has been stuck in my head for years:

 

Love me some Paula…My favorite of hers is Forever Your Girl….I just loathed the remix version one though….the original one rocked!

 

From 1979. I love how it has that late 70's feel when it really kicks in.

 

Edited March 4, 20169 yr by SoapDope