Take Two #2: Janet Jackson's "The Velvet Rope" (1997)

Our second episode of the Take Two miniseries focuses on Janet Jackson's risqué and introspective album, The Velvet Rope. We discuss Janet's move to a more neo soul sound, how she matured as an artist when creating this record, and how Janet's gone underappreciated in the last decade. 

More on The Velvet Rope

• ‘The Velvet Rope’: How Janet Jackson Tied Herself In Controversy (uDiscoverMusic)
• The Velvet Rope: how Janet Jackson inspired a whole generation (The Guardian)
• The Making of The Velvet Rope

Show Tracklisting (all songs from The Velvet Rope unless otherwise indicated):

• Anything
• What About
• My Need
• Interlude - Sad
• Can't Be Stopped
• Got 'Til It's Gone
• Together Again
• DJ Premier: Together Again (Remix)
• My Need
• Interlude - Speaker Phone
• Free Xone
• You
• I Get Lonely
• Go Deep
• Velvet Rope
• Rope Burn
• Missy Elliott: Pass Da Blunt
• Mariah Carey: My All

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there.
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