And then there was the back-to-back bliss of “Escapade” and “Miss You Much,” both No. 1 hits from 1989’s blockbuster “Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814” — arguably her best of ...

Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 was released three years later. Rhythm Nation‘s title track remains one of Janet’s calling cards to this day, with the music video being one of her most ic ...

The power of Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" music video apparently goes beyond its Grammy and VMA wins. Earlier this month, Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen wrote a blog post detailing a colleague ...

Janet Jackson performed for the first time onstage in eight years at this year's AMAs. She joins an elite few artists by ...

But while engineers were preoccupied with eliminating glitches or bugs, they failed to predict their biggest threat: Janet Jackson‘s 1989 single “Rhythm Nation.” Raymond Chen, principal ...

Windows XP had a bug linked to playing Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation. The bug caused crashes in PCs due to frequencies affecting hard drives. Microsoft implemented a filter to fix the issue.

In 2005, it was discovered that Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation would crash a particular laptop because it matched the natural resonant frequency of its hard drive. The PC manufacturer behind this ...

Playing Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' on some older laptops causes them to crash. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains why. According to Chen, a "major computer manufacturer" at some point ...