While it includes
some grudging concessions to new R&B the dirty gluebuzz
shuffle-beats of "You Ain't Right," provocative and profanity-laced
lyrics (including some near-comic simulated sexual moaning), and a
naff tell-it-like-it-is-sister collaboration with Carly Simon that
borrows liberally from "You're So Vain" All for You is,
for the most part, signature Janet. It even goes so far as to rework
ideas already delivered in the past. Through a slew of those natty
Janet-in-the-studio interludes, the set strides with suitably slick
production work from Jam & Lewis, the pair so self-conscious of their
skills they cut-in the word "edit" as a cute cut-up gimmick on both
singles: the surgically clean "Doesn't Really Matter" and the fine
neo-disco/ '80s-retro collage title track. Elsewhere, in its best
moments, the record steps through faux-Eastern synthesized
tuned-percussion on the slyly syncopated "China Love," and finds pop
heaven amid flush acoustic guitars, twee keyboards and skittery beats
on "Someone to Call My Lover."
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