''La Toya'' (also known as ''You're Gonna Get Rocked!'') is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter

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released in 1988 by

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. While the cover and box states the album's name as ''La Toya'', the actual disc and cassette tape state the name as ''You're Gonna Get Rocked!''. Therefore, the album is interchangeably referred to by both names. The album includes " (Ain't Nobody Loves You) Like I Do" and " You're Gonna Get Rocked", which are, to date, two of only five songs by La Toya Jackson to have an accompanying music video. The album was re-released as an expanded 2-CD set under the name ''You're Gonna Get Rocked!'' by

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in December 2013.

Album information

''La Toya'' was the first album Jackson released since terminating father Joe Jackson as her manager and signing with a new label,

. Jackson's musical goal was to evolve her

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sound to something more substantial. "I know what I wanted to do, I always wanted a street sound.

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kept saying 'Do it, move away, do your own sound.' That's why I moved to New York, to stop living in a fantasy world, get out of my sheltered life. As far as I'm concerned, it's my first album." To help develop her sound Jackson recruited British producers

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. Jackson was disappointed to find upon arriving at their studio that SAW had already completed their three submissions, requiring only Jackson's vocals. Jackson had hoped to collaborate with them from scratch.Will the Next Jackson Kindly Step Forward?
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''1988 Producer

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described working with LaToya as "great", but added: "She wanted to do it, but somehow I got a feeling she was doing it because she felt that she ought to; because she was part of the family. I'm not sure there was that drive there. You can't wring that out of people if it's not there." "

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's anti-drug campaign. Their other two tracks, the "funky, gritty" " (Ain't Nobody Loves You) Like I Do" and melancholy ballad "(Tell Me) He Means Nothing to You at All" ic/small> were starkly different from SAW's previous work. Jackson waited six months for US hip-hop producers

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to fit her into their busy schedule. Jackson wanted them to contribute a more aggressive sound to the LP. At the time, Full Force member Paul Anthony disclosed that the group decided to work with Jackson because "we like the underdogs." The four Full Force tracks include " You're Gonna Get Rocked!", "

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", " Such a Wicked Love", and "Not Giving Up On Love." Other contributions were from producers Bobby Hart & Dick Eastman on the duet with

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"If I Could Get To You",

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on the eccentric "Turn On the Radio", and Stephen Laurence Harvey on "Does It Really Matter". ''La Toya'' was recorded from March 1987 through 1988. The album was mixed down in New York. As a result of working with such a varied group of producers, the LP's two sides had distinctly different sounds. Side A, featuring tracks 1 through 5, had a hip-hop &

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theme tailored for the US market while Side B was more oriented towards European

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. Jackson had high expectations for the album, having worked on it for two years. "I've had no private life at all for two years. My whole life has been this record. It's hard work. It's not glamorous at all."Hickley, David
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'' 21 November 1988 Jackson dedicated the album to the children of the world due to her involvement in the "Just Say No" campaign which was designated for children between the ages of 3 and 7. The album is available on Spotify under the title ''You're Gonna Get Rocked'', to which is Jackson's highest played album on the platform.

Reception

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'' described the three "right on target"

songs as "pop gems that display Jackson at her best." "Just Say No" was commended as a "bouncy tune that glosses over" the anti-drugs slogan while

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wrote that "Just Say No" brought "out the best of Jackson."

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'', lauded the LP's hip-hop side with Full Force "a-nicking and a-sticking in full sample effect." However Quantick slammed the SAW-produced tracks on Side B, characterizing "Just Say No" as

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's " What's Going On" rammed up the nose of

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". ''The Miami News'' opined that pop "with a bit of funk and soul" best suited Jackson but criticized her voice as being drowned out on the Full Force songs.Tarradell, Mario
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'' Nov 26, 1988 On the other hand, the ''

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'' asserted that tracks "You Blew" and "Such a Wicked Love" "bristle with the torrid funk of Full Force."

described the Full Force tracks as "clever jams which position Jackson as a street-hip artist" but while also being "somewhat vacuous." "Does It Really Matter" was complimented as "a genuine, insinuating club/house cut."

Track listing

Expanded re-release

The album was re-released as an expanded 2-CD-set under the name ''You're Gonna Get Rocked!'' by Cherry Pop Records in December 2013 including all of the remixes plus previously unreleased material, such as Jackson's version of the

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hit single "Trouble" (originally recorded by Jackson) and original versions of "(Ain't Nobody Loves You) Like I Do" and her anti-drug song "Just Say No". The 16-page booklet contains all the lyrics, additional information and a page written by Jackson herself. The re-issue was digitally remastered from the original tapes.

Unreleased songs

A song called "Men Be Illin'" was originally recorded for the album, but not used. The song was recorded in early 1987 and copyrighted with the U.S. Copyright Office under the registration number PAu-986-950 on July 7 of that year. Jackson co-wrote the song with John F. Wilson, who she had previously worked with on the track "Love Talk" from her ''

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'' in 1986. According to U.S. Copyright records, the song was simply recorded on a cassette tape and claimed by Jackson, while another Jackson/Wilson track entitled "I Really Want to Do It Tonight" was claimed by Wilson.United States Copyright Office
/ref> Neither of the tracks were ever released on an album, although because of the dates of the recordings, it is widely believed that "Men Be Illin'" was intended to be released on Jackson's 1988 ''La Toya'' album. Jackson also worked with Steve Harvey, whom she wrote songs with. One of the songs, "Does It Really Matter?", ended up on this album. She also originally recorded the Harvey penned song "Trouble", which was later given to

and became a No. 1 on the US Dance Charts. Jackson's version remained unreleased until December 2013, when it was added to the expanded re-release by Cherry Pop Records.

References

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