All For You (2001) was a well-timed aging-up album for Janet Jackson. Demons conquered, a smiling and happy Janet beams from its cover and the lighter pop side in her nature simply resonates throughout. Keeping to her conceptual structure Jackson has a whole lot of fun here on “Come On Get Up,” the liberated “Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)” and “Someone To Call My Lover”–the latter two featuring samples of Carly Simon and America respectively while Missy Elliott and P. Diddy are amongst the guests on an album that has a clean and dirty side. Now thirty-five Jackson was hitting peak form and sounds utterly on top of her craft here.
