Twenty-five years ago today (Oct. 7), Janet Jackson released her sixth album, The Velvet Rope. The music icon celebrates the album’s milestone anniversary with a special deluxe edition.
The Velvet Rope: Deluxe Edition features ten bonus tracks, including Teddy Riley‘s TNT Remix of “I Get Lonely” featuring Blackstreet, the J. Dilla (Ummah Jay Dee) remix of “Got ‘Til It’s Gone” and Timbaland and Missy Elliott‘s remix of “Go Deep.”
It also includes club mixes of tracks by David Morales & Frankie Knuckles, Masters at Work, Tony Moran, Jason Nevins and Tony Humphries.
Jackson released The Velvet Rope on Oct. 7, 1997. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album spawned hit singles such as the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “Together Again” and “I Get Lonely,” which peaked at No. 3 on the same chart.
“Got ‘Til It’s Gone” wasn’t a commercially released single but it still generated much success. It won Best Short Form Music Video at the 40th Grammy Awards.
Janet Jackson The Velvet Rope: Deluxe Edition Tracklist
Component 1:
1. Interlude -Twisted Elegance
2. Velvet Rope [feat. Vanessa-Mae]
3. You
4. Got ‘Til It’s Gone [feat. Q-Tip & Joni Mitchell]
5. Interlude – Speaker Phone
6. My Need
7. Interlude – Fasten Your Seatbelts
8. Go Deep
9. Free Xone
10. Interlude – Memory
11. Together Again
12. Interlude – Online
13. Empty
14. Interlude – Full
15. What About
16. Every Time
17. Tonight’s The Night
18. I Get Lonely
19. Rope Burn
20. Anything
21. Interlude – Sad
22. Special
23. Can’t Be Stopped
24. Accept Me [Bonus Track] *
25. God’s Stepchild [Bonus Track] *
Stream Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope: Deluxe Edition below.