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| | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / On 'Damita Jo,' Jackson labors for love |
 | | Long before her bejeweled right breast made a surprise appearance at the Super Bowl halftime show last month, Jackson was using sex as a marketing ploy and headline-grabber, the better to distract people from her whisper of a voice. |
 | | Damita Jo, which is Jackson's middle name, is presented as one of those characters, a sexually liberated woman unafraid of letting a man know exactly what she wants, and how she wants it. |
 | | Efficiently produced by her longtime collaborators, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, "Damita Jo" isn't a bad album, but it lacks the seductive joy of "Control," "Rhythm Nation 1814," and "The Velvet Rope." At a point in her career where making music should seem effortless, "Damita Jo" feels unnecessarily labored. |
| www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/03/30/on_damita_jo_jackson_labors_for_love?mode=PF (555 words) |
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