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West is a study in the dialectics of personality: an author of acclaimed books on American pragmatism, prophetic Christianity and the ethical dimensions of Marxism who also possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the latest releases from Arrested Development and Janet Jackson. He turned down a coveted post at Harvard in part because Boston radio stations don't play enough black music, which he calls "an important restorative of my soul." He was kicked out of elementary school in Sacramento, California, for slugging a teacher who asked him to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, which West refused...
PERFORMER: JANET JACKSON...
...ALBUM: JANET...
...Since humor on these two albums is in short supply, it is interesting to speculate on what Lardner might have made of Terence Trent D'Arby's "T.I.T.S."/"F&J," an exceedingly unlikely -- beautifully unlikely -- evocation of the Frankie and Johnny legend. Or what he would have done with Janet Jackson's Throb ("I can feel your body/ pressed against my body/ when you start to poundin'/ love to feel you throbbin'/ throb/ throb/ throb"). Or what it might have done to him. Cole Porter might even have got a formal apology...
...album janet. comes on strong from its first full song, That's the Way Love Goes, a silken seduction ballad that purrs and pounces. When the singer wants to talk back at a lover who's been "runnin' 'round with those nasty hoes," she has to cut her way through a lush sonic rain forest. As if she were afraid of getting lost in the jungle depths, Jackson enlisted the aid of opera soprano Kathleen Battle, whose soaring obbligato she chases through the song like a kid following a bread-crumb trail out of a fairy-tale forest...