One Has To Go (No poll!)
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I wasn't listening to Janet growing up. I was listening to Mike. I'm sure I know more songs if I hear them but off the dome I got 4
That's like you getting mad at somebody for not knowing Beyonce catalog. Some people don't rock with her like that.
Jermaine catalog is fire. I'm surprised y'all know thatBye Janet. Your brothers catalog over shadows everything
IVS
Superstar
I only know 2 Janet songs of note to me. Sawry she can go
Easy choice....Whitney.
xiceman191
Superstar
The disrespect to Janet. 
Ain't none of them got an album run like Control-Velvet rope. Yea she may be the weakest vocally but her catalog probably the dopes of the 4. But Mariah would probably be the one that would need to go. Plus without her catalog there is alot of artists that probably wouldn't even exist.
Ain't none of them got an album run like Control-Velvet rope. Yea she may be the weakest vocally but her catalog probably the dopes of the 4. But Mariah would probably be the one that would need to go. Plus without her catalog there is alot of artists that probably wouldn't even exist.
Whitntey did Dolly Pardon and Chaka Khan songs better than they did.
"I'm Every Woman" is
Sorry, but Janet gotta wait outside. I wont tell her to "go"
"I'm Every Woman" is
Sorry, but Janet gotta wait outside. I wont tell her to "go"
Wear My Dawg's Hat
Superstar
Mariah.
She was Tommy Motolla's pet marketing attempt to launch a "white" version of Whitney in the pop world.
Sony marketed her as a better Taylor Dayne. She cleared up assumptions about her heritage in later interviews.
Her catalogue lacks soul or the groove element of Jam/Lewis.
Mariah Carey in 1990: Critics Loved Her, Thought She Was White
Mariah Carey in 1990: Critics Loved Her, Thought She Was White
By Joe Lynch
9/16/2015
When Mariah Carey entered the music world via her blockbuster self-titled debut in 1990, many critics hailed her practically peerless voice and parade of No. 1 hits. Some were less enthused, however, praising her technical talents but opining she needed to develop a more distinct musical approach.
Whether critics were right about Carey's style circa 1990 is a matter for discussion, but one prevalent viewpoint espoused by several writers 25 years ago is just plain wrong.
Namely, that Mariah Carey is white.
As (hopefully) everyone knows at this point, Mariah Carey is not white -- or perhaps more specifically, she's not just white. She's African-American and Venezuelan on her father's side and white Irish on her mother's. But publications from Los Angeles Daily News to Playboy to the Herald Sun described her as "white" throughout 1990, an error that at least two publications (New York Post and USA Today) wrote to correct.
In an article from Dec. 6, 1990, Australia's Herald Sun described Carey as "the new white U.S. soul singer with a reputed eight-octave range." That's wrong on two counts: Aside from not being white, Carey's range is five octaves.
An article from the Los Angeles Daily News (picked up in the Nov. 8 edition of the Chicago Tribune) made the same mistake. The article is primarily about Billboard changing the name of its Hot Black Singles chart to Hot R&B Singles (the chart is now called Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs), but it erroneously mentions Carey as white in a one-off example. "The term 'black music' also has caused confusion when it includes releases by white artists. This week, Mariah Carey's debut album is high on the chart and, in past years, George Michael has had the No. 1 album on the chart," the article reads. (Incidentally, Michael's father was a Greek Cypriot, which many would argue isn't white.)
After Playboy ran an article about Carey in 1990 that described her as a "white girl who can sing," reports surfaced via New York Post that she was furious with the writer of the piece. Shortly after, a spokesperson for Carey set the record straight to USA Today.
"Mariah Carey's anger over a racial comment was blown out of proportion, says spokeswoman Judy Womack at Columbia Records," reads the Nov. 20, 1990, USA Today article. "Friday, the New York Post reported that Carey was ready to 'sock [black music critic] Nelson George' because he called her a 'white girl who can sing' in his Playboy review of her self-titled album.... 'My father was very upset,' [Carey said]. 'It seems that most people don't know much about interracial children.' Womack says the quote was taken out of context, and that Carey and George are friends."
She was Tommy Motolla's pet marketing attempt to launch a "white" version of Whitney in the pop world.
Sony marketed her as a better Taylor Dayne. She cleared up assumptions about her heritage in later interviews.
Her catalogue lacks soul or the groove element of Jam/Lewis.
Mariah Carey in 1990: Critics Loved Her, Thought She Was White
Mariah Carey in 1990: Critics Loved Her, Thought She Was White
By Joe Lynch
9/16/2015
When Mariah Carey entered the music world via her blockbuster self-titled debut in 1990, many critics hailed her practically peerless voice and parade of No. 1 hits. Some were less enthused, however, praising her technical talents but opining she needed to develop a more distinct musical approach.
Whether critics were right about Carey's style circa 1990 is a matter for discussion, but one prevalent viewpoint espoused by several writers 25 years ago is just plain wrong.
Namely, that Mariah Carey is white.
As (hopefully) everyone knows at this point, Mariah Carey is not white -- or perhaps more specifically, she's not just white. She's African-American and Venezuelan on her father's side and white Irish on her mother's. But publications from Los Angeles Daily News to Playboy to the Herald Sun described her as "white" throughout 1990, an error that at least two publications (New York Post and USA Today) wrote to correct.
In an article from Dec. 6, 1990, Australia's Herald Sun described Carey as "the new white U.S. soul singer with a reputed eight-octave range." That's wrong on two counts: Aside from not being white, Carey's range is five octaves.
An article from the Los Angeles Daily News (picked up in the Nov. 8 edition of the Chicago Tribune) made the same mistake. The article is primarily about Billboard changing the name of its Hot Black Singles chart to Hot R&B Singles (the chart is now called Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs), but it erroneously mentions Carey as white in a one-off example. "The term 'black music' also has caused confusion when it includes releases by white artists. This week, Mariah Carey's debut album is high on the chart and, in past years, George Michael has had the No. 1 album on the chart," the article reads. (Incidentally, Michael's father was a Greek Cypriot, which many would argue isn't white.)
After Playboy ran an article about Carey in 1990 that described her as a "white girl who can sing," reports surfaced via New York Post that she was furious with the writer of the piece. Shortly after, a spokesperson for Carey set the record straight to USA Today.
"Mariah Carey's anger over a racial comment was blown out of proportion, says spokeswoman Judy Womack at Columbia Records," reads the Nov. 20, 1990, USA Today article. "Friday, the New York Post reported that Carey was ready to 'sock [black music critic] Nelson George' because he called her a 'white girl who can sing' in his Playboy review of her self-titled album.... 'My father was very upset,' [Carey said]. 'It seems that most people don't know much about interracial children.' Womack says the quote was taken out of context, and that Carey and George are friends."
feelosofer
#ninergang
No one is going to say this out loud because of the last name and legacy but in all honesty thinking with my head and not with my heart, I think the choice has to be Janet Jackson.
Edit: More votes for Janet than I thought
Edit: More votes for Janet than I thought
King
The black man is always targeted.
Truewhitney already gone
her discography low key the weakest of the 4 despite her being the most talented if we're being honest too.
But her vocal talent inspired so many tho hmm
Get Mariah outta here, that Christmas song is permanently embedded into my head and will likely drive me insane as I age
If we’re being honest Janet was only really popular at a very short specific time so only appeals to a very specific group of oldheads who were old enough to be hip to her music at the height of her popularity
Mary
The Janet disrespect is shocking and appauling.... 