Word: jam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam...
...NEXT BIG THING IN BLACK music last year at this time was the teaming of the youngest member of the musical Jackson family with two hot Minneapolis producers. The pairing of Janet Jackson with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis developed a progressive new pop/soul sound, heavy on elements of beat and relying on the projection of an aura of female strength and toughness...
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's Spanish Fly picks up where Janet left off. As listeners tire of the now overexposed and no longer progressive Jam/Lewis beat, Full Force has broken new ground on `urban' radio by surrounding Lisa Lisa with a clever, funky, and even historical mixture of all that's hot in Black music today. Lisa Lisa maintains Janet's rigid stance of female power in the midst of a musical melange of elements from 50s streetcorner doo-wop to hot Miami rhythms, with even a touch of gospel-style chorus tossed in for flavor...
...with some nasty conversational repartee in the vein of Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately," Lisa Lisa plays a fan attracted to a male singer. The latter, the album's best and most aggressive track, is heavily layered with keyboards and Spanador's (of the Cult Jam) vibrant guitar solo. "I'm not your everyday average woman," Lisa Lisa sings. She tells us she will not be the victim of any relationship, because when you mess with her, "You're playing with fire/And you're gonna get burned...
...late afternoon the lecture is coming to a close, but the best is still to come. Tonight, and probably continuing far into tomorrow morning, there | will be a seisiun, as in jam seisiun. Fledgling pipers will bring out instruments they really know how to play -- fiddles, hammered dulcimers, tin whistles, mandolins -- and dream of a day when they might join the elite. When a good seisiun is in the air, the word spreads, and the chance to play with not just one but five or six of the best pipers in the country all at once will bring out Irish...