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Let's Wait Awhile is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of America. Those roots explain a lot about how Let's Wait Awhile arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Ashanti, Big Pun, Destiny's Child, Melody Thornton and Jibbs, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 9 connections around Let's Wait Awhile, reaching back through America and forward to Ashanti. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Let's Wait Awhile" is a song by American singer Janet Jackson from her third studio album Control (1986). It was released on January 6, 1987 on A&M Records as the album's fifth single. The song was written and produced by Jackson, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis, with Melanie Andrews serving as co-writer. It is also the first song Jackson co-produced. "Let's Wait Awhile" was inspired by intimate moments and conversations Andrews had with her first love and boyfriend. Just young teenagers at the time, the couple decided through those conversations to postpone sexual intimacy within their relationship until the time was right.
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Let's Wait Awhile grew out of America, went on to shape Ashanti, Big Pun, Destiny's Child and Melody Thornton. 9 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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