The Velvet Rope "deep-down funk" and trip hop, as Jackson distorts her voice in a low range during a challenge of self-scrutiny. "Got 'til It's Gone" is an alternative pop and trip hop song, featuring folk singer Joni Mitchell and rapper Q-Tip. Jackson speaks of vulnerability and regret in a "depressive sobriety". Interlude "Speakerphone" consists of Jackson beginning to masturbate before a phone conversation with sister-in-law Lisa-Marie Presley. "My Need" is a mid-tempo hip-hop song tackling self-obsession and unbridled lust. Interlude "Fasten Your Seatbelts" portrays Jackson and her dancers mimicking Bette Davis in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" and "All About Eve".
A Thief in the Night (film) film, bringing rock music and elements of horror film to a genre then-dominated by family-friendly evangelicalism. A quarter century later, the authors of the broadly successful "Left Behind" series of books and films have acknowledged their debt to "Thief". Indeed, even the title "Left Behind" echoes the refrain of Norman's theme song for "A Thief in the Night", "I Wish We'd All Been Ready," in which he sings, "There's no time to change your mind, the Son has come and you've been left behind." A Thief in the Night (film) A Thief in the Night is a 1972 evangelical Christian