Janet Jackson is universally regarded as an innovator.  Her music and the videos that accompany them showed the world that she was a budding talent with a beautiful (although faint) voice and astonishing dancing skills that many would come to assimilate.  A plethora of her younger contemporaries have said that she inspired them because her career as a whole has been nothing short of groundbreaking.  A great illustration of her creative works as an artist are her videos.  "Design of a Decade" includes some of her dexterous videos to date.