It's POLL For You -- ILM artist poll #103 -- JANET JACKSON (voting open until July 24, 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxSfQeCoFUM

close enough

never seen that video, it is a+ nuts

my favorite from the unreleased & leaked ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAGpoRcnIqs

PS - what has happened to rich harrison??

So, with one week left and 8 ballots in ... dare I open up balloting to allow for more than 40? Dare I say everything extra beyond 40 automatically gets 10 points each?

(Yes, I received a ballot with more than 50 and I can't penalize enthusiasm.)

^^ yup, got distracted in the abundance of goodness there, just cut off everything that's beyond 40 and don't mind me, I'll just weep quietly in the corner

WHAT

Nope, I've updated the intro post and now the floodgates are open. Add away, Brad!

(I have at least a dozen I need to toss an extra 10 at.)

(I feel like RuPaul saying "oh, and one more thing.")

20 yo is actually just a straight up sick album

I'm going to submit a list of at least 20 but probably going to wait until the last minute in case I find the time for further listening.

yeah, i have a ballot coming. just trying to listen through to 20yo and Discipline and getting distracted by new music.

I voted. Where's my sticker?

No sticker. Just a rope burn.

I want you to listen to ...

YOU!!!

Song that keeps jumping up on my ballot the more I listen to it and the more step dances to it I watch on YouTube: "Feels So Right."

yep. very high up on my ballot

Nine ballots in.

When I ran the Bjork poll it had 41. Just sayin'.

It's early!

I am voting, I just can't decide what to put on my ballot

I voted. I only enjoy two JJ songs but I ranked them and sent ‘em in.

Quality not quantity folks

You need at least 10 for the ballot to count.

Also, for those who missed it, I'm now doing unlimited ballots of more that 40. (Anything beyond the top 40 gets 10 points each. If you turn in an unranked ballot of more than 40, all songs get 10 points each.)

Aww
Oh well

i'm not familiar with the depth of her catalog (i think i've only heard 3 of her albums front-to-back) so i'm not sure if i will be voting on this, much as i love many of the songs that i do know

but i would like to express my support for the cool summer mixes of "nasty" in the remixes category :D

absolutely

I changed my mind, I am voting for "Say You Do", thank u DJP

It got a bonus 10 points from me.

FWIW, as of now there is only one single song that's gotten votes from every person who voted so far (and no #1 votes).

i am submitting a revised and expanded ballot. am i allowed to vote for the full rhythm nation 1814 movie as a music video

Sure thing.

I'm letting Stevie D pick a foreign airline commercial, after all.

A dozen ballots in, btw.

I'm gonna keep listening until the deadline. Right now, my ballot looks about 90% like Design of a Decade plus a bonus EP of VR/AfU singles.

lol i feel that

the hits are undeniable

Design of a Decade is pretty great though it gives janet. a major short shrift (I'm sure they didn't want to cut into the album's presumably still comparatively robust sales).

lmao i love the "go deep" video so much. the soap suds

David Browne: Due to contractual obligations, the album consists almost entirely of songs from Control and Rhythm Nation 1814 and includes only one (”That’s the Way Love Goes”) of the five top 10 hits from her 1993 smorgasbord janet.

(xp)

lmao omg I just actually looked at the tracklist for "Design of a Decade", what s senseless product!! Like this really is largely a compilation of songs from.... 2 albums???

And it doesn't even include "The Best Things in Life Are Free!"

Janet's definitely owed an at least two-disc Celebration-style compilation at this point.

LOL, I guess I forgot about buying this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/Janet_Jackson_-_Number_Ones_album_cover.png/220px-Janet_Jackson_-_Number_Ones_album_cover.png

oh yeah i suddenly remember being devastated as a kid because design of a decade didn't have "if" on it

or "You Want This." Or "Anytime, Any Place." Or "You Want This."

"You Want This" is one song whose awesomeness I didn't fully recognize until I started listening for this poll.

Number Ones is insanely good

and it includes "The Best Things in Life Are Free" and "Diamonds."