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Janet Jackson: Dream Street (1984)
In 1984, Janet, now eighteen, released her sophomore effort titled
Dream Street. It marked a musical progression from her debut, with more funky, up-tempo production by brother Marlon and famed disco producer Giorgio Moroder, who had established himself as a hit producer thanks to his work with disco legend
Donna Summer.
The album only peaked at #147 on the Billboard pop album charts when it was released that July (though it reached #19 on the R&B chart) and the album overall only sold half of what her self-titled debut sold. Critics began to demean Jackson's career as a pop star over before it actually began.
Around the same time, she fell in love and eloped with James DeBarge, member of the Motown family group DeBarge. The marriage was annulled in March 1985, with DeBarge's drug habit often cited as the reason. After the marriage was annulled and after years of dealing with the tensed atmosphere of being a member of a world-famous family, Janet was searching for her own place.
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William James Ivey sez, My new book, Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights, is just out (May 10). The idea for Arts, Inc. hit me when I was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, during Bill Clinton?s administration. I became convinced that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, copyright extension, and Clear-Channel-style media consolidation were undermining our basic rights to an arts system that really serves the public. Things have only gotten worse. Congress and the FCC might think it?s important to institute hefty fines when Janet Jackson?s breast pops out during a Super Bowl telecast, but it?s shrinking Fair Use, globalized record companies and film studios ? they serve shareholders, not art -- left-behind citizens who lack quality Internet access, and Viacom against Google and Microsoft stalking Yahoo that are the real threats to the vibrant cultural scene that?s essential in our democracy. Arts, Inc. is on sale now. Look for interviews and reviews; I?ll be making the case around the country ? at a performing arts conference in Denver next week, and at the Center for American Progress in DC in mid-July. Link...
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