The currently untitled new project from Janet Jackson is set to release at the first music quarter of next year, in February of ’08.
Janet recently parted ways with Virgin Records and is now teamed up with Island Def Jam. This will be her first release on the new label, with Antonia “LA” Reid having executive producer credits on the new album. Boyfriend and producer Jermaine Dupri is busy working on Mariah’s new project, and he had this to say:
“We’re going to make it seem like we’re in competition to see who’s going to have the biggest album of the year,” he told Billboard in July.
The artist is also prepping a worldwide tour to promote the follow-up to 2006′s 20 Y.O., which should be quite interesting. In addition, Jackson has signed with the William Morris Agency for representation in all areas. I don’t know about you, but I am interested to see what a new Janet tour will be like.
NAS’ CONTROVERSIAL ALBUM PUSHED BACK
Nas was to release his controversial album, Nigger next month but it seems as though the dates have been changed. With just an album title, and no music heard, the date of the album has been pushed back to Black History Month, February.
After a new snippet was leaked over the weekend, titled “What It Is,” Nas says that his first single will drop sometime in January. There was a lot of negative feedback on the snippet, but Nas assures us that “What It Is” will not appear on the album and that they are solidifying the final track listing. Nas clarified those are vocals that were leaked and added onto a random beat.
“I never rhymed to that beat,” he said.
Nigger, which many media outlets have had trouble putting in many publications and saying in television interviews will include productions from Atlanta’s DJ Toomp, longtime collaborator, Salaam Remi, as well as a host of new producers. Diddy is slated to make some contributions as well.
AMY WINEHOUSE CANCELS REMAINING ’07 APPEARANCES
Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
According to the troubled performer’s publicist, Amy Winehouse has canceled remaining tour dates and appearances in ’07. And if you saw that train wreck of a performance at this year’s MTV European Music Awards, you can definitely see why.
All of Winehouse’s shows have been canceled by promoters, with refunds being given to purchasers. Winehouse says in a statement:
“I can’t give it my all onstage without my [husband] Blake,” the statement read. “I’m so sorry, but I don’t want to do the shows half-heartedly; I love singing. My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.”
I really hope that she will get it together, because Back to Black was one of my favorite albums in a while. And she’s supposed to be racking up at the Grammy’s this coming year. I was also expecting a new album next year, but that may change. Winehouse released a live DVD, I Told You I Was Trouble within the last couple of weeks, and her debut album, Frank was officially released in the States as well (it was only available as an import).
Janet is and has always been a beautiful overrated entertainer with the last name JACKSON. Lets see if record companies would have given her “less than mediocre voice” a chance if her last name was JENKINS. She has had a good run but as someone stated earlier. Whitney, Aretha, and Yes even Mariah are vocalists and if they wanted to they could keep doing shows at 75. Janet SURELY does not have that option. So just bow out gracefully JJ. TOur with the old hits but this new stuff is disposable.
It’s funny how some of you talk about janet like she is in a wheel chair. You don’t say shit about mariah’s ass doing the same songs over and over again. Since that bitch came out she has been doing the same shit over and over again.. The ones that claim Madonna is still relevant, I bet yall didn’t buy her album or even listen to that shit. It was garbage techno music for gay white men. Rihanna had one of the biggest songs of the year and her cd sold a little more than what Janet’s last cd did.Also if you combine Rihanna’s last two cd’s and Janet’s, Janet sold more. Ciara cd is a flop, Beyonce damn near had to force people to buy her cd, she better suck Neyo’s dick every nite for that hit. I guess yall would rather hear the shit on radio like soulja boy (where you can’t understand a damn thing that little queen is saying) Or that non singing ugly ass Tpain.. Janet may not be the greatest singer, but she can hold a note, and sounds just like she does on her record.
FUCK EACH EVERYONE OF YOU THAT HAVE SOME NEGATIVE SHIT TO SAY ABOUT JANET…
I guess we will see in 2008 what going to develop from this “new” cd. But I will be willing to bet my life the results will be the same. NOTHING!!!!!!!!!
Shawn…..boo its not that serious. Do we have a psychiatrist in the house, this person needs help.
Anywayyyyyyyy……
I dont think Janet built it alone either. She had the help of her last name (cause lets be real, would we have even paid attention in the beginning if her last name wasnt “Jackson” and her older brother wasnt Michael).
And to be honest no matter how much of a great performer she is on stage, she still is a whisper singer.
What I’m trying to say is being a good dancer and below average singer is not going to cut it.
Yes Janet broke bounderies but she really isnt any different than Beyonce. They both wear a lacefront and use the “sex sells” marketing. Except Beyonce can really sing. So if you ask me Janet’s time has expired, theres a new “Queen” in town.
JUST FACE THE FACTS FOLKS!!!!!!!!!
I don’t understand why fans of one artist feel the need to put other artists down to try to prove a point.
Ciara’s cd is far from a flop. I never knew selling over a million copies is a flop.
As for Beyonce, her cd sold 2 million copies before the release, so how is that a flop?
Janet never dissed Ciara. She only said the video reminded her of herself, after she was asked. People are always trying to start a beef between the two. Janet is a grown woman, and that’s not even her style.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve loved Janet since birth, but I can understand why everyone’s telling her to sit down. Nothing she’s done in the past 10 years has come close to the level that The Velvet Rope sold at, and the only reason it sold so well because it was about her as a person, not her sexuality. Sure it had some sexual undertones to it, but nowhere near the point that 20YO and Damita Jo did. Anyone can sell sex, and she needs to realize that.
Yeah, 20YO and Damita Jo aren’t considered flops by industry standards, but they’re not ground breaking hits either. And numbers mean nothing. Just because a single or album sells well doesn’t mean that it’s quality music (Soulja Boy anyone?)
Artistically, Janet needs to step it up or sit it down.
Does Janet even have panties on in that particular picture ?
Nas really needs to rethink naming his cd the N word – His music is horrible anyways
Amy Winhouse needs Jesus & Rehab now more than ever….
poor amy! her first album frank is is pretty good as back to black. hope she gets better. hate to see all that talent go to waste.
I love janet.Forever.
@ GEM
YOU SOUND REALLY STUPID SAYING ALL JANET HAS TO OFFER IS HALF SHIRTS AND BELLY RINGS.. BUT YOU PRAISE MADONNA’S CORNY ATTENTION GRABBING ASS IN THE PARAGRAPH.
WHEN YOU GO TO A JANET CONCERT YOU LEAVE ENTERTAINED, ASK ANYBODY THAT HAS BEEN TO HER CONCERT..
JANET AND MADONNA ARE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT MUSIC STYLES. YOU GET SO BRAINWASHED INTO THINKING THAT JUST BECAUSE SHE IS WHITE, SHE GETS A PASS.. I BET YOU DON’T EVEN OWN HER LAST CD, IF BY CHANCE YOU DO, YOU PROBABLY DON’T EVEN LISTEN TO IT.
I love Janet and Hope for her nothing but the Best. If u don’t then do not support
Well its about time this hoe is going to go on tour. All For You was disappointing…The Velvet Rope was a masterpiece.
@ halcyonc
FUNNY HOW YOU PRAISE MIKE (wHICH HE SHOULD BE PRAISED) BUT DOWN JANET, WHEN MIKE HAS BEEN DOING THE SAME MOVES SINCE HE WAS 5..
AND JANET HAS REINVENTED HER SELF.. WHAT OTHER BLACK FEMALE DOES POP, R&B, DANCE, ROCK, AND HOUSE MUSIC? WHAT OTHER BLACK FEMALE ARTIST COMBINES ALL THOSE GENRES OF MUSIC INTO ONE ALBUM.
CONTROL IS NOT THE SAME AS RHYTHM NATION.. RHYTHM NATION IS NOT THE SAME AS THE JANET. ALBUM. THE JANET. ALBUM IS NOT THE SAME AS THE VELVET ROPE. ETC….
JANET’S DANCING IS NOT THE SAME EITHER
YOU JUST HATE JANET, JUST ADMIT IT AND MOVE ON.
I hate all the bad things that are being said about Janet ever since the superbowl incident. I don’t know why when black music artist get a certain age. Black people always try to abanden them. Janet is one of the best live performers. Yet U people say she should retire. I was watching Beyonce concert on BEt thxgiving. She don’t hold a candle to Janet performing live. Janet paved the way . She still has a few more albums left in her and a few more tours. I will never abanden her EVER….http://www.myspace.com/emale_kv
Shawn GEM was saying those things figuratively not literally. Janet is a better artist than this fluff that she has been pushing. To reclaim that she will have to step it up. I mean its cool that u are defending Janet and u believe everything she does is better than any artist in existence. GREAT for U. I think Janet is good however her music as of late has not reflected that. Otherwise she wouldn’t need a “comeback”. Janet hasn’t left or gone anywhere. She can still make music she just need to not expect to sell at the level she used to. These debates went down before 20 yo was released and Stans swore J was gonna shut B down. Didn’t happen !!! Its not about that if she make good music she will be supported but the hype and noise is not helping her cause any.
8Baller.. I JUST CAN’T STAND IGNORANT PEOPLE LIKE YOUR SELF..
IF SHE BUILT HER CAREER ON HER NAME, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER JACKSONS? SHE TOOK A DIFFERENT ROUTE WITH ACTING COMPARED TO HER FAMILY. SHE MADE A NAME FOR HER SELF, ASK AALIYAH, CIARA, CASSIE, BEYONCE, LIL KIM, MYA, CHRISTINA MILAN, BRITNEY, PINK, XTINA THE LIST GOES ON AND ON AND ON..
SHE HAS TALKED ABOUT EVERY SUBJECT COMPARED TO MARIAH, WHITNEY, AND BEYONCE. NONE OF THEM HAVE TALKED ABOUT OR TOOK RISK LIKE JANET.
YOU PROBABLY PREFER THE SAME OLE TIRED ASS LOVE SONGS THAT MARIAH AND WHITNEY SING.
I’m about to have a fit LMAO.
babygirl,
criticism from little teenyboppers are meaningless. lol They like Soulja Boy and Chris Brown, what makes their opinions of legends/icons of our generation valid? They wouldn’t no talent if it were sewn in their scalp like a lacefront. They like the water down versions of the real thing, so of course they wouldn’t/can’t appreciate these aforementioned artists.
“Janet doesn’t have that…she’s like some teenager, perpetually in belly-baring tops, whispering (though Madonna does too) about nothing…”
Janet is the type who can sing, but as of late, chooses not too. That whole she mumbles/whispers is getting tired, regardless of what she does now. Just because she ain’t screaming and hollering, gasping for air THERES NO WAY, NO WAY HA-HAAA! like Jennifer Holiday doesn’t mean she can’t sing; theres more than way to sing. And singing about nothing? When Janet was these young artist’s age she had a whole album/song like ‘Rhythm Nation’ ‘The Knowledge’ ‘State of the World’ etc. (Don’t give me that she has no substance bullshit). What are these young hoes singing about? Umbrellas? Please. When Janet was their age, she was covered from head to toe; no bare mid driff, not tons of make up, etc. If she wants to do that now, she can do whatever the hell she wants. If Madonna wans to do yoga on stage in leotards, Janet should be able to show her hot ass body too.
I don’t think people are getting it. Janet is not trying to compete with the young broads out. She is doing her thing. Shes been doing her shit like she always does; its just that now, theres madd skally wags who jock her style that make it “seem” like SHES trying to compete with them; and its not. Its like if Michael Jackson were to come out, and people said hes trying to compete with Justin and Omarion. If you don’t like Janet, fine. But don’t tell her what her ass needs to do. No one is making you listen to her music/follow her career!
I see there are some Madonna zealots in here. Stop with that ‘re-inventing’ bullshit. LMAO.
In the 80’s and early 90’s. Back then it was all about Madonna, Michael, Janet, Whitney, Prince, and Bruce.
Bullshit. First of all, what was Prince doing in the 90s? Making people calm him a damn symbol? What was Bruce doing the 90s? Janet was VERY much privalent in the 80s/90s like all aforementioned people, and she was very much apart of the holy trinity. To leave her out is denial on anyone’s part. Back when MJ’s music was shifting in the late 80s with ‘Bad’ in spite of the fact Quincy still produced it, the R&B audience wasn’t trying to hear that. Janet came out with Control/Rhythm Nation at the time, and still holds records to this day that haven’t been broken…and that includes even MJ himself. Kid1, you didn’t have to take it there (molestation).
Also, Janet’s record sells have been on the decline since before the Superbowl incident.
Bullshit.
‘All for You’ (’01) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and went on to sell over 3.2 million copies in the U.S. The debut sales week with 605,128 copies. The album was also number one during the fourth week of “All for You” being on top of the Billboard Hot 100. Damita Jo (04) Debuted with 400,000 and would of been number
one if Usher hadn’t come with his Confessions and brilliant marketing on his relationship with Chilli, even though those songs were written by JD and had nothing to do with Usher. The Velvet Rope (’97) sold 7,000,000 Worldwide and is 3x Platinum
in the US billboard, and was number one as well. Don’t play yourself. Obviously her sales went down post-Superbowl because she is being BLACKLISTED. How can you sell if you’re banned from the FCC/MTV air play?
I love MJ but don’t act like Invincible didn’t do so hot LOL!
Gem,
You can’t compare what/why Janet was hot in her prime to these skip skops. I don’t what it is, maybe most peoples don’t know what went down, but when Janet was the baddest chick in the game it wasn’t about no Cassie/Ciara shit.
“hell yes!!”
Is exactly what I’m talking about. Putting Janet on these hoola hoops sluts level. You don’t know about Janet. JANET JACKSON IS ON MADONNAS LEVEL. STOP THE FUCKING BULLSHIT. JANETS BEEN GOING STRONG SINCE SHE WAS 10 YEARS OLD, FUCK A CIARA, DAMN! LMAO. We got some hookers coming out about 3 or 4 years ago and we are saying Janet is on their level? Crazy heiffas. What you know about Janet? Janet was the first black female song and dance artist. Think about it. Name one that came out before her? Thats right, she was the first. Stop and think before you open your mouth. Paula Abdul came and gone. The only person to compare her with was like I said, Madonna. People want to compare her with another black female song and dance artist, but there was no one of her caliber during her time. Its all the ones that NOW (Mya, Ciara, etc) that came after, so people feel justified in comparing The mtvICON to them whores.
And since you asked (lol) when I hear songs like, and I list them as I call it ..
* Runaway
* Love Will Never Do (Without You)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H9QFRnMFssc
* Again
* The Velvet Rope
* Control
* He Doesn’t Know That I’m Alive
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZS8vuYZKDRY
* Rhythm Nation
* Come Back To Me
* The Pleasure Principle
* Escapade
* Lets Wait Awhile
* Thats the Way Love Goes
* Any Time, Any Place
* 70s Love Groove
* Island Life
* Got Til Its Gone
* Go Deep
* What About
* All For You
* Doesn’t Really Matter
You cannot tell me you have listened to those songs, listened to her voice and tell me she cannot sing, or worse, that she ‘whispers’. Cause I can hear her ass loud and clear. Because I hear her ass loud and clear. Janet is capable of having ’strong’ vocals. She has range. The usual tone she chooses to sing in most songs fit the songs themselves. She is not going to sing ‘What About’ the same way she would sing ‘Again’, for example.
Typical of people (Cadence) to try and make it out like Janet is only famous because of her last name. That is so 1986. Janet is the only one in the family who got to break out on her own and made a name for herself, WITHOUT riding on Michael’s coattails (MJ wrote ‘Centipede’ for Rebbie, for example). Marlon, LaToya, Jermaine and Rebbie’s all solo efforts failed miserably. But Janet was the one who did the damn thing. Everyone wants try and justify Janet’s fame and success by taking the ‘her older brother’ angle. Tell me, if thats true why come nobody bought Solange’s album? Shes Beyonce sister. People don’t buy your shit because of who you are related to. There are many things Janet has accomplished that most people don’t know about; and records she broke, and yes, some have surpassed many of her peers (Madonna, Whitney, etc) and even Michael’s. I could list them, but this post is already as long as it is. It was her hard work that got her here; ya’ll can try and manipulate, modify and try and attribute all her success to Michael but it will never work and they know it. You can scream and shout and shake your body down to the ground on how Jackson was got Janet here all you want. Remember when her first two albums ‘Dreamstreet’ did nothing? If her last name was such a help, those should of sold of well too.
ONE MORE THING LMAO.
**IF I WAS YOUR GIRL**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfcL966zkKY
Bitch is bad.
@Leslie
GEM DOESN’T LIKE CARE FOR JANET AND IT SHOWS IN WHAT SHE SAYS..
YOU HAVE PEOPLE LIKE SOULJA BOY, TPAIN AND AKON GOING NUMBER ONE OFF SOME STUPID SHIT, YOU HAVE RAPPERS TALKING ABOUT THE SAME SHIT ON EVERY CD (CARS, WOMEN AND MONEY) SAME DAMN VIDEO’S. YOU HAVE CHICKS LIKE BEYONCE TALKING ABOUT PAT YOUR WEAVE AND UPGRADE YOU. OR FREAKDUM DRESS.. WHAT’S SO HOT ABOUT THAT SHIT???
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, JANET, FOR ME, WILL ALWAYS COME FIRST, BUT BESIDE HER I LISTEN TO NEO SOUL.. BILAL, MUSIQ, JILL, ERYKAH, MESHELL AND DWELE.. PEOPLE THAT DON’T GET PLAYED ON THE RADIO..
Well FLOACIST I have learned not to argue with people and their God. So go on and keep worshipping THA FALLEN ANGEL Janet Jackson. But study some more go and open a school about it. Keep on Studyin that way u are educated and just not RHETORICAL…. and “IF” was bad. But no one was questioning her HOTNESS 15 years ago EITHER. But I digress. Thanx for skoolin a sista LMBO @ folks that got too much time on they hands
NAS is the truth…I am sure he will bring much needed awareness to the word and definitely preach it! Nobody can spit knowledge in Hip Hop like NAS, so I don’t think it’s a gimmick. Better him than some of these other rappers walking around.
As far as Janet..she needs to do grown people music, I think she’s really good at it. Love her slow jams! Stay away from kiddie music please!! And please do not compare her to Madonna or Mariah..she fell off a few years back, the other two are still in the game hard!
@floacist
MOST OF THESE IGNORANT ASSES WILL READ THAT AND STILL TALK SHIT.. LOL
THEY CAN’T FUCK WITH JANET AND WHAT SHE HAS DONE, AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO..
@Vixen23
THERE IN THE GAME BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO ISSUES WITH POP RADIO
MARIAH HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE SHE CAME OUT
AND MADONNA CARTERS TO THE GAY AUDIENCE
LMAO @ 140, I couldnt agree more. No one said Janet wasnt hot, its just her time has long past.
Shawn, I understand your frustration, cause she is your favorite artist and all. But just like I cant convince you that her time is over, you cant convince me she can make a comeback. We are both set on what we believe. Lets leave it at that.
I still believe Beyonce is the reigning Queen.
I dont need a history lesson about music, cause I am probably older than you. I am standing firm when I say Janet is so….so………….10 YEARS AGO.
TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS INDEED!!!
@8Baller
WHAT HAS BEYONCE DONE THAT WAS GROUNDBREAKING..
I DOUBT YOUR OLDER THAN ME, SEEING THAT YOUR A BEYONCE FAN.
WHEN BEYONCE HAS A VOICE (NOT TALKING ABOUT SINGING) THAN COME TALK TO ME, WHEN BEYONCE DOES SOMETHING GROUNDBREAKING, THAN COME TALK TO ME..
CAN’t wait for that new JAnet!
When this b*tch goes back on TOur….we will see how many haters be talking out here.
Janet has something to prove this time around….(Haters BEWARE!)
janet got ’08 for the kill. you will reign girl!
Amy’s Frank is a dope album, I like it more than Fade to Black.
Re: Kid1 MY FAULT!!! LMAO. I made a few mistakes. I got to check myself when I’m ranting. My apologies, roflmao.
OH, and people always want to brush their shoulders off when they get played (oh you have too much time on your hands, blazay blah. I’m a fast typer, it didn’t take me no longer than 1 minute boo LOL). Whatever, moonwalk
I think a lot of u r overreacting 4 real…if ppl think Janet needs to sit down thats their opinion…i personally am tired of Janet and i love her to death. Just cuz u dont think some1 should bother coming out with another album doesnt mean ur not a fan. I personally think her time is done. Her work is not maturing with her,and I think she is seen as a joke now and thats y her sales have flopped her last 2 albums. I agree that if her new work reflects the maturity and growth she has experienced, that would be a better look 4 her. If she is just gonna act like the typical young pop diva, it will be another crappy album.
And again, I love Janet so its not me hating, i just call it as i see it.
@Jojo
Who do you listen to now?
love janet! she set the bar! mad props for that. let her do her thing.
All the fucking people on here is probably 40…but I can’t wait to Janet comes back and Amy Winehouse needs to sit here crackhead ass down….Fuck all the people that don’t support Janet..
““We’re going to make it seem like we’re in competition to see who’s going to have the biggest album of the year,” he told Billboard in July.”
um J.D. go back to PR school, you don’t show your hand this early in the makings of an album. You start your competition now. Maybe you even have them making comments about each’s album now and how one is the original diva or triple threat etc etc. But you don’t go talking about what you gonna do.
This tears a page right out the Kanye/50 marketing handbook. And you didn’t tear the right page out dude.
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Nas why????????? I love him and I am tired of the great artists being pushed back for some bullshit! Amy is a damn hot ass mess! But yet, all these damn Black people on here seem to have so much sympathy for her, but you hate on Ashanti, Beyonce and every other Black female artist who is sober and doing their thing!
Tiffany , you are racist dam,
Amy is doing a better black music that all this fuckin artist put together.
And she looks a hot mess so?! She has issue with drugs but at least she is talented and sometimes it is good to support talent especially when it is from people that represent us better than a fake ass sahanti mothafucka lol
no seriously, ashanti lokks good or whateva but AMY WINEHOUSE MUSIC IS 100000000000 TIMES BETTER THAN ASHANTI MUSIC “BABE TAKE ME LIKE THAT”!!
can you compare beyonce music and Amy, dam Amy is a jazz woman, that girl can sing and she does not scream!! Like joss stone which is white too and looks a HAM. Black people are really too superficial and now white people are coming to show us how we should do our own music a damn shame!!
I loved Janet in the 80′s too, but she either needs to step up her game or fall back from trying to sing. There is no comparison between Janet and true singers like Whitney, Mariah, Patti and Tina. JANET JUST CAN’T SING!!! She can dance, but I personally don’t want to see a 40 something year old woman gyrating and bopping around like she’s still a teenager. For me, nothing since Vevet Rope has even been relavant. If Janet wants to try to come back, then she needs to take some voice lessons, put on some clothes, and remember that a nice body does not equate talent.
#157
I agree with you, a bit… Amy’s music is FAR SUPERIOR to Beyonce’s and Ashanti’s…Amy is in a different league…and the only reason she might not get 5 or 6 Grammy Awards next year is because the org might be a bit hesitant to reward such a flippant drug addict.
@Whateva
So i guess whitney is still relevant because she has a voice (or we hope so since is was /is a crackhead). mariah has been doing the same shit over and over again, she never takes a risk and ALWAYS plays it safe. So why do they get a pass and not janet?
It’s stupid to say janet can’t sing, (yes we all know she doesn’t have a voice like mariah or whitney) but that doesn’t mean she can’t sing.
I can’ t stand a bandwagon hater.. you hate on someone because it’s the “in” thing to do.. You say you haven’t liked janet since the 80′s but you liked her up till the velvet rope.. the velvet rope came out in 97.. since the velvet rope she’s had songs such as All for you, trust a try, come on get up, you aint right, feels so right, island life, sexhibition, slolove, just a little while, do it to me, enjoy, take care, get it out of me and rollwitcha.. compare those songs to that tired shit Mariah has been singing.
don’t forget about us was a remake of we belong together, shake it of was a joke and it’s like that was just as corny *those chicks are ash and I’m lotion* what the fuck is that lol…
Honestly, The Emancipation of Mimi was no better than Charmbracelet or Glitter. The tracks on the album weren’t any different. Its just that ETOM did well and the other two didn’t. So people ought to stop over hyping EOTM like she was on some Visions of Love type quality, because it wasn’t.
I love how everybody wants to talk about Janet’s vocals and then compare her to Whitney, MC and Pattie. When was the last time Whitney or Pattie had a SONG on the radio, let alone a HIT! How many of you folks actually bought “just whitney” or Patties new gospel album. I’d venture to say that Janet has been more successful than most of the BIG VOICE singers yall mention even after the superbowl! And Mariah JUST got her career back on track. Before TEOM people on message boards were clowning the hell out of MC! Saying that all she did was sell sex and try to act young! The same shit yall sayin about Janet. I’m can’t say that janet is gonna have a huge comeback in 2008. But If she does, then all yall haters won’t have shit to say.
janet is a legend and no matter what there will always be one janet.its time for her to come on back with this hott cd and bad azz tour.its been a long time coming
well, I agree with you Janet fans on that: Mariah’s last cd, image, entire run was TRASH. I didn’t get it, it was contrived and, based on what I’d seen of her, beneath her. I’m puzzled as to how she was such a success…I think it was a fluke, and because we hate to think for ourselves, she’ll capitalize off that fluke again… her album was garbage, her image and performances were garbage…I didn’t buy that CD…
The only reason she’s better of than Janet, at this point, is that she had such a run in ’05…her first single was a hit because it worked in an era of trashcan music but We Belong Together was an even bigger hit and it was because she can sing… I think that’s what gives her legs, the voice… Janet surely doesn’t have that…
@ 103………what did the superbowl incident with janet have to do with racism?
I’m really tired of talking about Janet, but I don’t visit other blogs regularly anymore and this is all I’ve got…besides what I SHOULD BE DOING here lol
I’m sorry to say this, I’m not a big Janet fan BUT I do respect what she has done in this game and 20 years in this tough business is nothing to sneaze at. But the day of those artist who hypnotize the world with their feet is soooo 80′s! Madonna, Paula Abdoul, Janet had their time. Janet should just do Vegas or tour around the world, Their albums really dont cut it anymore (Well Madonna is a BEAST outside the US). Somebody needs to tell Ciara to step up them vocals also because that little 1,2, Step, Crumpin, & Matrix move wont last forever.
“FUNNY HOW YOU PRAISE MIKE (wHICH HE SHOULD BE PRAISED) BUT DOWN JANET, WHEN MIKE HAS BEEN DOING THE SAME MOVES SINCE HE WAS 5..
AND JANET HAS REINVENTED HER SELF..”
They are both great dancers-period. However, everthing Janet does Michael does better. I think she got a lot of her moves from her brother (nothing wrong with that).
I really don’t agree that Janet has reinvented herself. Changing clothes doesn’t count.
Like I told another poster the other day, hate is a very strong word. I like Janet well enough FYI, but I don’t worship her blindly either. In other words, I have my own opinion about Janet the “entertainer”. That is what this discussion is about. I don’t know her personally. She seems quite sweet. What is there to hate?
If anyone should admit anything (you accused me of hating her) then it is you SHAWN. Maybe you are the one with the problem. Perhaps you “hate” the fact that everyone doesn’t agree with you.
Damn right to SHAWN and FLOACIST, to everything you said!! LOL. Good Job.
“KB” I agree.
Oh shit there goes that “putting another artist down to bring one up” thing again. The Emancipation sold cause it was a good album. SIMPLE AS THAT.
I am sorry singing ability is more important to me than dancing.
Dancer with a mic = Janet.
Jeez…….I cant help it that I’m so sensible. LOL!!! I love you tho Janet.
Amy Winehouse must have been on some serious stuff.(booze baby booze)
@shawn:Maybe you need to REREAD what I said about Janet. I never said that I haven’t liked her since the 80′s. I said I loved her in the 80′s too. I was simply stating that she has fallen off since the Velvet Rope IMO! If you still think she’s relevant, then cool, but I don’t and that’s cool too. At least I know that Mariah and Whitney and Patti can hold a note and sing AUDIBLY. When all is said and done, I’d rather LISTEN to Mariah, Whitney and Patti actually sing, than listen to, or at least try to listen to whatever it is that Janet is trying to convey with her…..ahem….music.
@Whateva
why would you even attempt to compare janet to whitney, mariah and pattie? Janet knows she doesn’t have the strongest voice, but the girl can hold a note. she also knows how to deliver emotion thru a song. She also sounds the same live as she does on record. Now if you don’t like her recorded singing voice (which hasn’t changed since the 80′s) that’s fine with me, but don’t say she can’t sing.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shYihBTV1NA
I really like amy. I think Back to Black is great. But in this performance, I thought for sure she was going to fall over drunk. The back up singer was singing over her for a minute she was slurring so bad. I think he was thinking like me and that she was going to forget the lyrics. I even think she did at that time.
Janet Jackson just need to quit. She’ll do better selling dvd’s of Good Times out of her drunk around the first of every month…Rolling my eyes. And Amy take yo ass to Rehab, stop sayin “NO”.
my bad *trunk