Almost three years after she made the Super Bowl memorable, Janet Jackson’s not trying to be heavy. She’s not trying to scream, take control, get nasty or catch a boycott. “There’s something to be said for not saying anything,” says the Zen-like diva in a spoken intro, gamelan plinking meditatively behind her. “I don’t want to be serious—I want to have fun.” Beware the control freak who announces she wants to have fun. What follows are five sex-me-up dance jams, after which her breathy voice coasts through a variety of aromatherapized moods and sultry slo-jams, asserting her inner calm, sexual fulfillment and divine right to be back atop the charts. Her boyfriend Jermaine Dupri plays witty, ’80s-referencing production games, crafting tricked-out R&B settings that nearly pull off this consensus-building coup, though it’s hard to catch much buzz off fun that sounds so much like work.

Download: “This Body,” “Call On Me”