How a White Nationalist Mass Shooting Inspired Janet Jackson´s Masterpiece
(WorldNews Music)

Janet Jackson´s Rhythm Nation 1814 is a blockbuster and a landmark album-for Janet, for producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and for its time. It has sold 12 million copies and famously spawned a whopping seven Top 5 hits, but the legacy of Rhythm Nation is deeper and darker than its commercial success. The catalyst for Jackson´s magnum opus was a moment in U.S. history that would come to herald a harsh, ugly facet of contemporary American life. `I remember when we were working on Rhythm Nation with...