Prince is the only song artist who can get away with replacing title words with the numbers they sound like because he’s Prince. For everyone else it comes across as silly and pretentious. Janet Jackson is no exception. Still there’s something clever going on here. “We are a couple,” she says. That’s “2”, so I guess it makes sense.
The Love part, at least the latter Love part, is a generic euphemism for lust; the sexual kind that has a girl touching, licking, kissing and stroking a guy’s dick in order to get it ready to enter her pussy. It’s the fact that he’s also her romantic partner, not just her romantic partner for the night, that makes it all right in her mind.
What makes it all right in my mind is the music; a sultry and metallic, somewhat futuristic groove carefully produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Those two deserve all the credit in the world for composing such a sexy soundtrack. It’s the way Janet Jackson harmonizes those “Ooooo”s though that’s most pleasing to the ears.
my rating : 4 of 5
2006
