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".
Said the actress to the bishop Air Force c.1944-47, but may originate from the Edwardian era. The phrase is frequently used by the fictional character Simon Templar (alias "The Saint") in a long-running series of mystery books by Leslie Charteris. The phrase first appears in the inaugural Saint novel "Meet the Tiger", published in 1928. The version "as the girl said to the soldier" appears in a recorded sound test for Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film "Blackmail". Kingsley Amis uses the line in his 1954 novel "Lucky Jim", where a woman offering relationship advice to Jim Dixon says "I can't show you, as the actress said to