i notice while watching janet jackson's top ten videos on mtv base that the basic formula of her tunes has remained incredibly consistent - the beats are always a glossier, over-egged version of whatever the mode is in r'n'b and her melodies are always so sacharine even mya would blush and suggest that perhaps the time had come for hard-edged minimalism. and yet! "that's the way love goes" and "it doesn't matter" (which also has the best video - janet and friends hook up and then decide independently of one another to go dancing on a cybertronik sex-podium in what looks like downtown neo tokyo!) are stone-cold classics when i can handle the gooey gushy vibe. and to be fair i can handle that vibe far too much than is necessarily healthy. also, i had completely forgotten the existence of "i get lonely" which is awesome too!