Janet's bit of discipline
|  | | Janet Jackson | | I've had a sneak peek at two of this year's biggest albums, Janet Jackson's Discipline and That Chick by Mariah Carey. I can reveal that Janet, 41, kicks out the slow jams in favour of club bangers on her strongest and most varied collection in donkey's years.
Destiny's Child producer Rodney Jerkins, 30, is the man behind the standout cuts. Sweet, synth heavy lead-off track Love Love Love is the musical equivalent of Fruit Pastels while buzzy hook fest Feedback is the girl's best single in a decade.
Elsewhere the deliciously Stevie Wonder-ish This Can't Be Good highlights Janet's whisper-quiet vocal texture, while Tonight sounds like a future No 1. Only the super sexy (or plain filthy) title track, a ballad penned by Ne-Yo, 26, misses the mark.
As for Mariah it's more of the same from the world's biggest-selling recording artist. If anything there's less schmaltz this time as the Long Island babe concentrates on blowing bass bins. The brassy Lovin' You Long Time's riff gets more uplifting by the second while Mariah, 37, does a mean R Kelly impersonation on Touch My Body.
Pick of the bunch is the Janet-like title track That Chick, with its "taste me, gotta flavour like ice cream" hook. Janet's Discipline drops February 25, Mariah's That Chick follows on April 1. (Daily Star)
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