The album envisioned a post-racial utopia founded on the power of groove, where performance could be its own kind of genius.
Its title suggests a kind of musical Arcadia, where everyone is unified by a deep and undeniable imperative to move: a compulsory shoulder pop, an instinctive wiggle, or whatever it is that happens to your body when you hear someone yell, “Gimme a beat!” D.j.s in particular had been arguing for decades that dance could be a way of minimizing the distance between races, genders, and creeds.
Jackson was incalculably influential in other ways, though, including in her use of the music-video format. A thirty-minute long-form music video, which Jackson’s team took to calling a “telemusical,” was produced to promote the record just prior to its release. It contained three distinct, shorter videos—for the singles “Miss You Much,” “The Knowledge,” and “Rhythm Nation”—all shot in black-and-white, surely a nod to Jackson’s vision of a color-blind society.
Janet Jackson worked with Anthony Thomas, then an unknown choreographer, who later honed the pop-and-lock , and is now often referred to as “the man who changed the face of hip-hop.” The video for “Miss You Much,” choreographed by Jackson and Thomas, includes an incredibly captivating chair routine that would be imitated for years after.Jackson’s pioneering integration of the visual and the musical wasn’t immediately recognized or appreciated by critics.
Jackson and her producers also foresaw, in a way, the deterioration of genre as anything other than a gesture.the album's wide range of styles
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