![]() ![]() Janet Jackson had a thing, and crunchy guitar riffage simply wasn’t a part of that thing. Still, it felt slightly radical when a pop singer as ebullient as Janet Jackson tried out her own version of a greasy, decadent rocker. In the ’80s, Janet’s big brother Michael Jackson played around with hard-rock riffage on two chart-topping singles, “ Beat It” in 1983 and “ Dirty Diana” in 1988. Rhythm Nation is a hard, percussive dance-pop album with a few ballads, and “Black Cat” is a straight-up no-joke rock song - a hair-metal song, even. In the context of Janet Jackson’s blockbuster album Rhythm Nation 1814, “Black Cat” stands out for obvious reasons.
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