It turns out the two new songs posted on Janet Jackson’s official website last week, ‘Rock With U’ and ‘LUV’ are more than ‘Discipline’ album teasers; they are being released as singles – simultaneously. Both songs are to be served to radio in the weeks ahead, with ‘Rock With U’ being the Pop single, whilst ‘LUV’ is being billed as the Urban choice of single. No word yet on the video(s).{Sources: FMQB // Radio & Records}
Definitely a wise move on the part of the label or whoever called for this. Judging by the material thus far, Janet is returning to her Pop roots, yet catering to her urban audience too. I’m still kinda on the fence about ‘Rock With U’, so it’s great to know that ‘LUV’ is getting the single treatment.
Your thoughts?
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Luke
February 5, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Awesome, these two tracks are even more eligible to be singles than “Feedback”, she really has made the right single choices this time round it seems. I thought “Call On Me” for “20 YO” and “Just a Little While” for “Damita Jo” were awful first singles as there were much better tracks like “This Body”/”Show Me” and “Damita Jo”/”Strawberry Bounce” respectively which were better examples of how good these albums actually were. Janet hasn’t made a bad album yet in my opinion but she needs her singles to reflect this for the general public to be interested in buying the whole album.
“Rock With U” has actually become my favourite of the two, Jermaine Dupri’s production and Janet/Ne-Yo’s writing/arrangements have really impressed me. Ne-Yo is going up in my estimation massively since this, Leona’s “I’m You” and Mary’s “Fade Away”, he really is a talented writer/arranger.
I can’t wait to hear the rest of the album! Get it Ms. Janet!
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Luke
February 5, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Just to add, I just realized “Rock With U” is now available on US iTunes as a single and “Discipline” is available on pre-order, so excited!
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Anonymous
February 5, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Very smart idea Janet i feel is honest doing her u can kinda feel that her heart is into this album and this era i love both songs great choices……
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T
February 5, 2008 at 10:14 pm
POSTER LUKE, OMG I JUST THOUGHT THAT THJOSE 2 SONGS, DAMITA JO/STRAWBERRY BOUNCE, SHOULD HAVE DEF. BEEN SINGLES, BUT GET IT JANET, L.A. REID IS WORKING IT FOR HER THIS GO ROUND….GET IT JANET!
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Anonymous
February 6, 2008 at 10:55 am
I wish Janet does a video for Rock With U. that song has me in a trance. Brilliance
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Anonymous
February 6, 2008 at 11:38 am
rock wit you is genius i can’t believe jd produced it. his style is more main stream. very out the box and janet vocals are perfect. with leads me to think louder doesnt mean your a better singer.
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Anonymous
February 6, 2008 at 8:03 pm
lol, “louder doesn’t mean you’re a better singer.” Excuses, excuses!!!
Both songs sound messy.
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