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Title: Duet with Janet
Review: When Janet sings, "Peek in the shadow/ Come into the light/ You tell me I'm wrong/ Then prove you're right," we feel the pain that black people have engaged with since the beginning of history. SCREAM is a condemnation not only of racism and historical wrongs, but also of black complicity in their own inner betrayal, thus the contemptuous references to "selling out," as though both Michael and Janet, in their different ways, feel ambiguous about their success in white and pop record charts.In the remixes Janet is toned down way low and most of the vocals are Michael's, which is hardly fair. Though the music and lyrics are 100% Michael's, Janet was certainly an integral part of the production (and the video, too, where she looks out of this world).
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