John's World

hollywoodreporter Unlike most of America, I stayed away from the Super Bowl entirely yesterday.  I wasn't particularly excited abou...

soulbounce Here's a classic from Janet Jackson's stellar 1993 eponymous album .  The up tempo tune masterfully samples the Suprem...

wowtop5 Happy Friday to all.  Here's a Flashback Friday song that continues on my theme from yesterday's Song of the Day .  Onl...

byron4music At first listen, the average person may have missed this gem that appears after a period of silence at the end of what's ...

In the last Music News Bytes , I mentioned that Janet Jackson recently celebrated the 20th Anniversary of her monumental album janet .  T...

Okay, so I still haven't had time to watch the Billboard Music Awards , which took place on Sunday night in Las Vegas, and so I won'...

Happy Friday! Here's the lead single from Janet's 1989 album, Rhythm Nation 1814, a funky, dancey ditty that was a #1 smash all o...

Today is the last day of February, thankfully, and spring is well on its way.  What better way to celebrate the oncoming of the nicer weat...

Whatever happened to Miss Janet? I wanted to do a little bit of a throwback today and for some reason she popped in my head, so here we ...

Today's song is taken from Prince's 1984 semi-autobiographical, cult classic film, Purple Rain . In the movie, Morris Day, the lead...

visceralresponse Janet Jackson is another one of those artists who flourished in the 1990's, and this one was one of my favorites ...

All this week, the music channel VH1 has been counting down its’ list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music , and the big winner is…you guessed...

He was on a airplane Sittin next to this guy Said he wasn't too shy And he seemed real nice Until he found out he was gay That's so ...

It's a snowy Saturday morning and I feel a rant coming on... Fingers and birds It all started on Thursday when I read this headlin...

For our last Janet Week Song of the Day, I chose "Got 'til It's Gone." This was the lead single off of her "Velvet R...

Today's Janet song was especially recorded for her first Greatest Hits album, "Design of a Decade," and it's a pleasant, m...

Today's Janet Jackson song is a pure dance track from her "Rhythm Nation 1814" CD, which came out in 1989. The album was the ...

This was one of my favorites from Janet's breakthrough 1986 album, "Control." She was just a young thing back then (weren...

Good morning and Happy Hump Day! Summer is in full swing (and so are the high temperatures!) and I have yet to make it to the beach! I’ve ...

When I penned the article of Janet's top ten songs, this was my number one, and for good reason. Here's what I wrote about the son...