A New Janet Delivers Us a New Album
So, All for You, a new album, is this also a new Janet?
Yes, you could say that. My life has changed a great deal. That's why there's a new, freer me. There will be a lot of new me's, and I am looking forward to meeting them all.
I feel really good, I really do. The album was a lot of fun to make. It was really weird. Jimmy (Jam) and I became very close when we first met. And then certain people enter your life, and you don't realize that you wind up losing either some of your relationships or just entire relationships. Now that I'm in a different space, we've gotten so much closer once again. And I didn't realize that until this change had happened in my life. I was thinking 'this is the way it used to be' and I had missed this, really missed it, and I'm so happy for it. I missed him. Things continue to change. Sometimes they get better and sometimes they just change.
You use the word "free" on this record. "Free" is the word that came to my mind. From the production, from your enthusiasm-you sound happy to be singing.
Oh really, you heard it? I think it does seem free lyrically. Musically I'd say, as far as the melodies go, they are too. Musically, I think it's freeing. It sounds very liberating. Melodically speaking, and vocally, you can hear it too. You hear it in the voice. It sounds like a lot of fun! Especially the single, how it starts with that rap chant. Did you have fun writing it as well?
I did. It was a great experience, it really was. It's just about what we've spoken about. The things going on in my life, not necessarily everything, but the positive things. One of the things I got from the music I heard was different kinds of love and relationships. I heard young love; sensual, sexy, mature love; flirty love; one night love ... You got it for sure! It's a different thing for me. Growing up, I never dated. I'm doing that now, experiencing that whole life. So, I'm sure you'll hear a lot of that. I won't tell which person this or that song is about, but yes it shows and those are the different experiences, some of them.
Tell me about "All For You." Why is that the single and the title of the album?
I thought it would make a good title. Running down the different songs that Jimmy and I had written, Rock and myself. I don't know, there's just something catchy about it, something simple about it. I just thought it was real nice. As far as the single, it was just inspired from my experience, going to clubs, having fun with friends, seeing someone who might be attracted to you, that you could tell wants to approach you, but intimidation pretty much gets in the way. It is pretty sad. That's happened to me all my life. Anyone that I have ever gone out with, I've asked out... So hopefully that will change. I just wanted to write about it because I thought it was pretty funny.
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