TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Janet Jackson

TITLE: Because Of Love

0hr 53min total- 51.8mb

RELEASE DATE: 1994-00-00
RIP DATE: 2004-06-13

01 Because Of Love (LP Version)   6:09
02 Because Of Love (Frankie &     5:51

03 Because Of Love (Frankie &    12:47
David Classic 12" Version)
04 Because Of Love (Frankie &    10:39
David Treat Mix)
05 Because Of Love (D&D Bentley   6:49

06 Because Of Love (Muggs 7''     5:04
Version with Bass Intro)
07 Because Of Love (D&D Slow      6:37

Few celebrity siblings can emerge from
the shadows of their already famous
relations to become superstars in their
own right and with their own distinct
personalities. That's exactly what
Janet Jackson did in becoming one of
the biggest female pop and R&B stars of
the '80s and '90s. Since her
breakthrough in 1986 with the album
Control, Jackson's career as a hitmaker
has been a model of consistency,
rivaling Madonna and Whitney Houston in
terms of pop-chart success over the long
haul. A big part of the reason was that
Jackson kept her level of quality
control very high; her singles were
always expertly crafted, with indelible
pop hooks and state-of-the-art
production that kept up with contemporary
trends in urban R&B. Once established,
her broad-based appeal never really
dipped all that much; she was able to
avoid significant career missteps, musical
and otherwise, and successfully shifted
her image from a strong, independent
young woman to a sexy, mature adult.
With a string of multi-platinum albums
under her belt, she showed no signs of
slowing down in the new millennium.
Janet Damita Jo Jackson was born May 16,
1966, in Gary, IN. She was the youngest
of nine children in the Jackson family,
and her older brothers had already begun
performing together as the Jackson 5 by
the time she was born. Bitten by the
performing bug at a young age, she
first appeared on-stage with the
Jackson 5 at age seven, and began a
sitcom acting career at the age of ten in
1977, when producer Norman Lear selected
her to join the cast of Good Times. She
remained there until 1979, and
subsequently appeared on Diff'rent Strokes
(1981-1982) and A New Kind of Family. In
1982, pushed by her father into trying
a singing career, Jackson released her
self-titled first album on A&M; a
couple of singles scraped the lower
reaches of the charts, but on the whole,
it made very little noise. She was cast
in the musical series Fame in 1983; the
following year, she issued her second
album, Dream Street, which sold even more
poorly than its predecessor. Upon
turning 18, Jackson rebelled against
her parents' close supervision,
eloping with a member of another
musical family, singer James DeBarge.
However, the relationship quickly hit the
rocks and Jackson wound up moving back
into her parents' home and having the

Jackson took some time to rethink her
musical career and her father hired her
a new manager, John McClain, who
isolated his young charge to train her
as a dancer (and make her lose weight).
McClain hooked Jackson up with
producers/writers Jimmy Jam and Terry
Lewis, whom she'd seen perform as
members of the Minneapolis funk outfit
the Time. Jackson collaborated with Jam
and Lewis on most of the tracks for her
next album, Control, which presented
her as a confident, tough-minded young
woman (with a soft side and a sense of
humor) taking charge of her life for the
first time. In support of Jackson's new
persona, Jam and Lewis crafted a set of
polished, computerized backing tracks
with slamming beats that owed more to
hard, hip-hop-tinged funk and urban R&B
than Janet's older brother Michael's
music. Control became an out-of-the-box
hit, and eventually spun off six
singles, the first five of which  "What
Have You Done for Me Lately," the catch
phrase-inspiring "Nasty," the number one
"When I Think of You," the title track,
and the ballad "Let's Wait Awhile"  hit
the Top Five on the pop charts. Jackson
was hailed as a role model for young women
and Control eventually sold over five
million copies, establishing Jackson as
not just a star, but her own woman. It
also made Jam and Lewis a monstrously
in-demand production team.

For the hotly anticipated follow-up,
John McClain wanted to push Jackson
toward more overtly sexual territory, to
which she objected strenuously. Instead,
she began collaborating with Jam and
Lewis on more socially conscious
material, which formed the backbone of
1989's Rhythm Nation 1814 (the "1814"
purportedly stood for either the letters
"R" and "N" or the year "The
Star-Spangled Banner" was written).
Actually, save for the title track,
most of the record's singles were bright
and romantically themed; four of them
"Miss You Much," "Escapade," "Black
Cat," and "Love Will Never Do (Without
You)"  hit number one, and three more
"Rhythm Nation," "Alright," and "Come
Back to Me"  reached the Top Five,
making Jackson the first artist ever to
produce seven Top Five hits off of one
album (something not even her brother
Michael had accomplished). Aside from a
greater use of outside samples, Rhythm
Nation's sound largely resembled that of
Control, but was just as well-crafted,
and listeners embraced it
enthusiastically, buying over six
million copies. Jackson undertook her
first real tour (she'd appeared at high
schools around the country in 1982) in
support of the album and it was
predictably a smashing success. In 1991,
Jackson capitalized on her success by
jumping from A&M to Virgin for a
reported $32 million, and also secretly
married choreographer and longtime
boyfriend Ren Elizondo.

Once on Virgin, Jackson set about
revamping her sound and image. Her 1992
duet with Luther Vandross from the Mo'
Money soundtrack, "The Best Things in
Life Are Free," was a major R&B hit, also
reaching the pop Top Ten. The following
year, she also resumed her acting
career, co-starring in acclaimed
director (and former junior high
classmate) John Singleton's Poetic
Justice, along with rapper Tupac Shakur.
But neither really hinted at the sexy,
seductive, fully adult persona she
unveiled with 1993's janet., her Virgin
debut. Jackson trumpeted her new image
with a notorious Rolling Stone cover
photo, in which her topless form was
covered by a pair of hands belonging
to an unseen "friend." Musically, Jam
and Lewis set aside the synthesized funk
of their first two albums with Jackson in
favor of warm, inviting, gently
undulating grooves. The album's lead
single, the slinky "That's the Way Love
Goes," became Jackson's biggest hit ever,
spending eight weeks at number one. It
was followed by a predictably long
parade of Top Ten hits  "If," the
number one ballad "Again," "Because of
You," "Any Time, Any Place," "You Want
This." janet.'s debut showing at number
one made it her third straight
chart-topping album, and it went on to
sell nearly seven million copies.

In 1995, Janet and Michael teamed up for
the single "Scream," which was
supported by an elaborate,
award-winning, space-age video that,
upon completion, ranked as the most
expensive music video ever made. The
single debuted at number five on the pop
charts, but gradually slid down from
there. In 1996, A&M issued a
retrospective of her years at the label,
Design of a Decade 1986-1996; it
featured the Virgin hit "That's the Way
Love Goes" and a few new tracks, one
of which, "Runaway," became a Top Five
hit. Jackson also signed a new contract
with Virgin for a reported $80 million.
Yet while working on her next album,
Jackson reportedly suffered an
emotional breakdown, or at least a
severe bout with depression; she later
raised eyebrows when she talked in
several interviews about the cleansing
value of coffee enemas as part of her
treatment. Her next album, The Velvet
Rope, appeared in 1997, and was touted
as her most personal and intimate work to
date. The Velvet Rope sought to combine
the sensuality of janet. with the more
socially conscious parts of Rhythm
Nation, mixing songs about issues like
domestic abuse, AIDS, and homophobia
with her most sexually explicit songs
ever. Critical opinion on the album
was divided; some applauded her
ambition, while others found the record
too bloated. The lead American single
"Together Again," an elegy for AIDS
victims, was a number one hit; also
popular on the radio was "Got 'Til It's
Gone," which featured rapper Q-Tip and a
sample of Joni Mitchell over a reggae
beat. "I Get Lonely," featuring
Blackstreet, was another big hit; but
on the whole, The Velvet Rope didn't
prove to be the blockbuster singles
bonanza that its predecessors were, which
was probably why its sales stalled at
around three million copies.

Jackson toured the world again, and stayed
on the charts in 1999 with the Top Five
Busta Rhymes duet "What's It Gonna
Be?!"; her appearance in the video
remade her as a glitzy, artificially
costumed, single-name diva. In 2000, she
appeared in the Eddie Murphy comedy Nutty
Professor II: The Klumps, and her
soundtrack contribution, "Doesn't
Really Matter," became a number one
single. Unfortunately, Jackson's marriage
to Elizondo had become strained and the
couple divorced in 2000, sparking a
court battle over her musical income.
Jackson returned with a new album, All
for You, in 2001, which largely
continued the sensual tone of janet. and
The Velvet Rope; it debuted at number
one, selling over 600,000 copies in its
first week alone. The title track was
issued as the album's first single and
quickly topped the charts, followed by
another sizable hit in "Someone to Call

While Jackson spent much of 2001 and 02
on the road supporting All For You, she
also found time for some guest
appearances, most notably with Beenie
Man on his Tropical Storm LP and Justin
Timberlake on Justified, his solo debut.
By 2003 she was back in the studio,
working once again with Jam and Lewis
on tracks for a new album; additional
producers included Dallas Austin and
Kayne West. Later that year, it was
revealed Jackson would take part in an
MTV-produced extravaganza during
halftime at the Super Bowl. 2004 began
with an Internet leak of the upbeat
Austin production "Just a Little While".
The singer's camp rolled with the
punches, offering the track to radio as
an authorized digital download, but
the buzz this business caused was
minuscule in comparison to the nightmare
union of free exposure and bad publicity
that Jackson's next adventure caused.
Appearing at halftime of Super Bowl
XXXVIII as scheduled, Jackson performed
"All For You" and "Rhythm Nation" before
bringing out surprise guest Timberlake
for a duet on his hit "Rock Your Body".
But the real surprise came at song's
end, when a gesture from Timberlake
caused Jackson's costume to tear,
exposing her right, pierced breast on
live television to hundreds of millions
of viewers. The incident caused furious
backpedaling and apologizing from
Timberlake, Jackson, the NFL, CBS, and
MTV, which swore no previous knowledge
of the so-called "wardrobe
malfunction", and led to speculation
over how Damita Jo - Jackson's upcoming
album and her first in three years -
would be received. But while the
controversy gave Jackson both grief and
a bit of free advertising, it was also
the impetus for a national debate on
public indecency. A federal commission was
set up to investigate prurience, the FCC
enacted tougher crackdowns on TV and
radio programs broadcasting
questionable content, and suddenly
everyone from pundits to politicians to
the man in the street had an opinion on
Janet Jackson's chest. Later that March,
the singer quietly started making the
talk show rounds. She was still
apologizing for the incident, but she was
also promoting Damita Jo, which Virgin
issued at the end of the month.