![]() ![]() “I want to do funky, groundbreaking stuff.”Īlthough Joi, who has sung with OutKast and Curtis Mayfield, had no problem referring to herself as R&B, her style was as influenced by the sci-fi imagery of Barbarella and P-Funk as she was by the midnight wail of Gladys Knight. “My vision was simple,” she explained in 1997. Still, it was Joi’s sophomore joint, Amoeba Cleansing Syndrome, that was supposed to set the world on fire. A lipstick liberator in the age of prefab divas, her 1994 debut, The Pendulum Vibe, was a wonderful introduction to an arty funk-rock aesthetic. Two years later, he introduced the world to glam singer Joi. “You’ve got to do what people want you to do before you can do what you want to do,” Austin said in 1992. While he’d constructed platinum-selling singles for ABC, TLC, and Boyz II Men, the wicked keyboardist had grown up admiring the artistry of Prince’s cyberfunk manifesto, 1999, and wanted to make a difference. Yet, while most producers were content making safe Black pop for the masses, Dallas Austin wanted to be an auteur. In the 1990s, Atlanta was a hothouse of post-new-jack-swing R&B.
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