Jimmy Jam (flytetymejam) reflects on the making of JanetJackson's RhythmNation1814
looking to make a political record. The concept emerged as he, Lewis and Jackson watched CNN during breaks in the recording and found themselves shocked by the homelessness, violence, drug abuse, racism and general craziness plaguing America
"Growing up in Minneapolis, watching people like Prince, we saw that all ideas are valid, and color lines are blurred," Jam says. "Rock guitar goes over funky beats, and keyboards replace horn sections. It was all of those things put together that became an incubator." Janet was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. How important was this album in terms of critics and audiences seeing Janet as a serious creative force?
There may be a couple of songs laying around that we didn't ever finish but there's no plans to do anything with those at this time.She obviously had a lot of success on thealbum. There was pressure to follow that up, and an anticipation of what the next project would be... The thing that made it good for us was it had been three years sinceas much as make a new album. The difference was that when we did, we did it in Minneapolis, it took six weeks and nobody was paying attention.
The hard-hitting part -- we were going in that direction anyway, sonically. What really changed with the "Rhythm Nation" part was we then had a purpose. It was more directed. And it became more industrial-sounding. Trashcan lids, glass breaking, feet stomping -- anything that felt like an army of people, that was sonically what we started going for once the lyrical concept started going in that direction.It really happened because we watched so much TV. There wasn’t DirectTV.
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