After taking control of her life, her music and her career, Janet Jackson was about to transform herself yet again. This time, as the new decade’s new face of pop music. 90’s Vixen After closing out the decade on the highest of highs, Jackson entered the 90’s as a solidified […]
The Jacksons’ Baby Sister “This is a story about control, my control. Control of what I say. Control of what I do. And this time, I’m gonna do it my way.” Those were the piercing first words of the opening lines of Janet Jackson’s 1986 breakthrough album, Control. A then […]
They don’t call Mariah Carey the “Queen of Christmas” for any ol’ reason. Her entire holiday canon has become a market for success, and her ever growing power during the holiday season only snowballs year after year. The key to her yuletide fortune, though, is a song she wrote back […]
Like Whitney, Mariah, and Céline, Adele is a one-name artist, who needs no shock value or theatrics to entertain, but simply a microphone and a stage. With over 120 million records sold worldwide, off of three albums released across a matter of 13 years, Adele has already become one of […]
“Oops!… I did it again, I played with your heart, got lost in the game…” –Britney Spears The title track and stratospheric lead single from Britney Spears’ sophomore album, Oops!… I Did It Again might be directed toward a silly boy, but with this song and its parent album, breaking […]
It’s always cool when the title of a record matches whatever is going on with the life or career of the artist who’s releasing it. This is true of Rita Ora’s second album, Phoenix. The Pristina-born English singer just released her second album after rising from the ashes of a […]
By 1993 Mariah Carey had established herself as the Pop “It” girl in the United States. With six #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, an acclaimed MTV Unplugged performance and over 15 million records sold, she was already a rising star. However, her career was destined to reach new […]
Looking for Fame Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga was once upon a time just a New York-based aspiring singer-songwriter who had landed a deal with Interscope after working on demos with producer Rob Fusari for a couple of years and a failed deal with Def Jam, from which […]
Kelly Rowland is now notorious for extremely long gaps between the release of her studio albums. Her debut, Simply Deep, was rush released in October 2002. Since then, she’s been in anything but a rush to craft her albums. She waited nearly five years to release her sophomore set Ms. […]
September 16, 1997. In September 1997, Mariah Carey released Butterfly, her self-described favorite and best album. Among her adoring fans, the #Lambily, it is widely considered the fan-favorite and best album as well, though some do differ in opinion. Still, Butterfly remains a sorely underrated classic in the grander scheme […]
