Janet Jackson: What's Happening~~~

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Janet's interview on The Heat with Dion airs Wednesday 4/14 at 5:00pm EST on SIRIUS XM Radio.

As Always

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Janet's interview on The Heat with Dion airs Wednesday 4/14 at 5:00pm EST on SIRIUS XM Radio.

As Always

:angel:

Did she call MJ a drug addict? If I know ahead of time, might spare me the trouble of actually listening to the interview.
 
Janet Jackson Tune in to hear Janet's interview on The Breakfast Club tomorrow April 29 at 7:30am on All Hits 95.5!

-Janet's web team

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JANET News — Tune in to hear Janet's interview on The Breakfast Club tomorrow April 29 at 7:30am on All Hits 95.5!

As Always

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There's been some dancer auditions for Janet, so something is happening...:scratch:
 
Janet was at donatella versace's party

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Ms.Janet...Rocks~~~

I would like to see a new album/cd that reflects Rythm Nation..!

Be still my heart```

As Always~~~


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Ms.Janet...Rocks~~~

I would like to see a new album/cd that reflects Rythm Nation..!

Be still my heart```

As Always~~~


:angel:

I was hoping for an album like The Velvet Rope I LOVE that album :wub:
Not that I would be disappointed with a Rhythm Nation type album, that rocked too :heart:.
 
Opps...I boo boobed...please delete this post..!

Thank You in advance

As Always

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I was hoping for an album like The Velvet Rope I LOVE that album :wub:
Not that I would be disappointed with a Rhythm Nation type album, that rocked too :heart:.

Did you have the opportunity to see the Rhythm Nation Tour..?

As Always

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By Andy Greene December 13, 2018 Rolling Stone
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced next year’s inductees: Radiohead, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Def Leppard, The Cure, Roxy Music and the Zombies will all join the class of 2019.

The induction ceremony will be held at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on March 29th. An edited version of the event will air later on HBO alongside a SiriusXM radio broadcast. Ticket details will be announced in January.

Artists are eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25 years after the release of their first album or single. Kraftwerk, Todd Rundgren, Rage Against the Machine, Rufus & Chaka Khan, MC5, LL Cool J, John Prine and Devo were all nominated, but failed to make the cut. No newly-eligible acts made it in this year, but this was the first time that Def Leppard and Nicks appeared on the ballot (though Nicks was inducted as a member of Fleetwood Mac in 1998). She will become the only woman to enter the Hall of Fame on two occasions.

“I have a lot to say about this,” Nicks says in a statement, “but I will save those words for later. For now I will just say, I have been in a band since 1968. To be recognized for my solo work makes me take a deep breath and smile. It’s a glorious feeling.”
Jackson also released a statement reacting to the honor. “Thank you Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” she says. “I am truly honored and I am happy to be in there with my brothers.”

Joe Elliott of Def Leppard is equally thrilled by the news. “Now we can stop holding our breath,” he tells Rolling Stone. “How wonderful to be in the same club as the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and the Who and Queen … It’s a nice badge of honor.”

For Colin Blunstone of the Zombies – who have been eligible since 1989 and have appeared on three previous ballots – this was the result of incredible patience and persistence. “You do start to doubt that it could happen,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I’ve tried to be fairly philosophical about it and tell myself that if we don’t get inducted, it’s just a bit of fun. Don’t take it too seriously. But of course when you’re actually inducted, everything changes. You think, ‘This is a career-defining [and] life-defining moment.'”

His longtime bandmate Rod Argent echoed Blunstone’s sentiment. “I know it’s fashionable in some circles to say, ‘I don’t mind whether I get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or not,'” he tells Rolling Stone. “But that is not how I’ve ever felt. When we were first nominated, that felt like a huge honor in its own right. And this time to turn the corner and get inducted, feels fantastic … I’m just so delighted.”

In a statement, a cordial Radiohead said that “the band thanks the Hall of Fame voting body and extends congratulations to this year’s fellow inductees.” But when we spoke to them in 2017, they were a little skeptical about the institution. “I don’t want to be rude about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because for a lot of people it means something, but culturally I don’t understand it,” said guitarist Ed O’Brien. “I think it might be a quintessential American thing. Brits are not very good at slapping ourselves on the back. It seems very show-biz and I’m not very show-biz.”

Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry had a different take. “We are delighted to accept this prestigious award on behalf of everyone who has been involved in the world of Roxy Music,” he wrote in a Tweet, “musicians, engineers, producers, designers and numerous people behind the scenes… and of course our loyal fans.”

Many Hall of Fame inductions have wrapped up with an all-star jam where each inductee lets loose on a single song, but finding one that works for all seven inductees might be a challenge. “That’s a bit of a tricky one, isn’t it?” asks Blunstone. “If you were to ask me off the top of my head, I’d go with ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ by the Beatles. Everyone knows that.”

Elliott has a different take. “I suppose older folk would be thinking [Chuck Berry’s] ‘Johnny B. Goode’ and younger folk would be thinking [David Bowie’s] ‘Heroes,'” he says. “It might one of those awkward moments where I’m saying, ‘I’m uncomfortable. I’m not doing it. Do they really want to play with us? Do we want to play with them?’ I don’t know. It depends on the Kumbaya-ness of the evening.”
 
Congrats to janet for being inducted to the rock and roll of fame
 
It's been long overdue, but it finally happened. Congrats to Janet on being inducted into the Rock 'N Roll Hall Of Fame. So well-deserved, now all six Jacksons are in there!
 
Janelle Monae To Present Janet Jackson At Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

by Camille Augustin March 13, 2019 Vibe
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With standard tickets already sold out, according to Cleveland.com, 2019's edition of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony will be the talk of the town later this year. To present the honorees with tributes and praise, the organization announced those famed artists like Janelle Monae who will honor Janet Jackson with this momentous accolade.

Jackson expressed her gratitude for the achievement when it was confirmed in December 2018. The Rock Hall described the "Made For Now" artist as someone who fearlessly tackled subjects of "poverty, race relations, and drug use" within her music, specifically on the iconic Rhythm Nation 1814. This was Jackson's third nomination.

The award-winning artist is poised to join a stellar cast of inductees that include Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Bobby Womack, Earth, Wind & Fire, Marvin Gaye, and her late brother Michael Jackson.

Other 2019 inductees include Radiohead, Def Leppard, The Cure, Roxy Music, The Zombies, and Stevie Nicks. The event will go down at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on March 29.
 
By Gabrielle Bruney March 30, 2019 Esquire
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The 34th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was held at New York’s Barclays Center Friday night, ushering the latest class of honorees into the fast-fading boomer rock institution. Long criticized for inducting disproportionately white and largely male musical acts, two of the Rock Hall's biggest-name honorees this year were Stevie Nicks and Janet Jackson. But the Hall of Fame otherwise stuck with its usual brand of guitar rockers, and a quintet of British bands—The Zombies, the Cure, Roxy Music, Def Leppard, and Radiohead—completed the list of 2019 honorees.

Nicks, already a member of the Hall of Fame for her work with Fleetwood Mac, became the first woman to be inducted twice, after gaining entry this year for her solo work. "What I am doing is opening up the door for other women to go, like, 'Hey man, I can do it,'" said Nicks during her speech.

She was introduced by her protégée Harry Styles, who also joined her onstage to perform Tom Petty’s part in "Stop Dragging My Heart Around."

"She is everything you have ever wanted in a lady, in a lover, and in a friend," Styles said of Nicks. "Stephanie Nicks, I love you, we all do, and that is true, Stevie."

Nicks, for her part, couldn’t quite remember what boy band her young pal hailed from. In a moment that perfectly illustrated why the world stans Stevie Nicks so hard in 2019, she briefly claimed that the 25-year-old Styles was a member of NSYNC—a group that’s been defunct since 2002.

"When he decided to make a solo record from NSYNC..." she said of Styles, to titters from the crowd. "Sorry, not NSYNC—I’m never going to live that one down, I know."

With some help from the audience, Nicks soon remembered that Styles was a member of One Direction.

Unlike her fellow inductees, Janet Jackson did not perform. Variety reports that she refused to take the stage because the ceremony was being filmed for future broadcast on HBO, the network behind the documentary Leaving Neverland. Michael Jackson’s estate has sued the broadcaster over the film, which features interviews with two men who accuse the pop star of sexually assaulting them when they were children.

Jackson was introduced by Janelle Monae, who called the singer "the legendary queen of black girl magic." After thanking her family and collaborators, Jackson ended her remarks with a directive to the institution honoring her. "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame please, 2020," she said. "Induct more women."

Jackson wasn't alone in criticizing the Hall of Fame; members of Radiohead have been vocal in their disdain for the institution. Guitarist Ed O'Brien told Esquire.com in 2017 that the Hall is a "little bit thin on black artists and hip-hop artists," and Jonny Greenwood bluntly told Rolling Stone that he didn't care whether or not they were honored. Of the five-piece band, only O'Brien and drummer Philip Selway attended Friday's ceremony.

Trent Reznor tackled his previous criticism of the Hall of Fame head on in his heartfelt introduction to inductees The Cure. "I think it’s only right for me to admit that I’ve been, let’s say, ambivalent about the existence of certain award ceremonies," said Reznor. "In fact, I remember distinctly saying to myself, among other things, how can I even take this awards ceremony seriously if they’ll open their doors to X, Y and Z and not acknowledge the Cure? Not so long ago I get a phone call I wasn’t expecting, and, well, here we are. Let’s just say I’ve never been as happy to eat my words as I was tonight."
 
Lifetime Achievement Award at 2019 Choreographer's Carnival

 
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Thanks for sharing this. Never heard Paula Abdul speak before. She seems like the sweetest person! Didn't know that she and the Jacksons go way back. And Janet speaking of her 2 year old son doing the moonwalk, omg! :wub:

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By Chris Willman May 18, 2019 Variety
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Here is something you’d place a bet on after seeing Janet Jackson’s new Las Vegas residency: She has been putting in a lot of hours on the treadmill. Not that we get to see how well-toned she is or isn’t, since she’s practically overdressed for the occasion, compared to the other superstar divas who come to town and play the leggy showgirl. But, 30 years after the “Rhythm Nation” tour — which her Vegas residency is being advertised as commemorating, at least in part — she’s clearly still got all that rhythm. Who could ask for anything more? Well, you could ask for stamina, too, and Jackson has also got that, in a 100-minute show that asks at least as much of her as those tours back in the day did.

Her “Metamorphosis” residency opened Friday, the day after the singer’s 53[SUP]rd [/SUP]birthday, a time in life at which it’s okay to become a little lazy, especially for the rare woman fortunate enough to have given birth after passing the 5-0 mark. We’ve seen younger performers who aren’t up to the determined rigors that a show like this demands, for whatever reasons, like the one who bowed out of her own Park Theater engagement earlier this year and left room for Jackson to step in. (Get well soon, Britney.) So, after you’ve maybe resolved that any “Miss You Much” will be a good “Miss You Much,” what fun it is — at least for those of us who’d passed on recent tours and didn’t know where to set expectations — to see that she hasn’t lost many steps. Actually, at the very beginning of Friday night’s opener, it seemed as if her moves weren’t quite as bold as those of her dozen-plus backup dancers, but soon enough she joined them in admirable sync, as if Jackson were going through her own opening-night metamorphosis of confidence.

One thing the show was kind of advertised as, and most definitely is not, is an autobiographical trip back through history, or self-help Tony Robbins/TED talk. When announced, her residency was described as incorporating her “path to self-love, empowerment, motherhood and activism, amidst the challenges she faced along her personal journey. She encourages her audiences to find their own light within themselves through her Metamorphosis.” There wassome of that, opening night — but, thankfully, only via voiceover during video pieces masking a few costume and set changes. Jackson has never been loquacious on stage, so she’s not about to start indulging in monologs now, unless they’re pre-recorded. The only time she really spoke live and at any length to Friday’s audience (which included guests like Magic Johnson and Queen Latifah) was to point out that she had some emotional recognition remembering that her first stage appearance with the Jacksons in the early ‘70s was at another MGM-branded property down the street. Given how the only awkward moments in Lady Gaga’s “Enigma” residency at this same venue are the ones where she talks with a robot about her own journey of self-discovery, it’s kind of a relief that Jackson stints on the live pep talks here. She lets the sight of her huge tangles of red curls blowing in the artificial wind do the talking. They talk a lot.

Jackson toured a good deal in 2018 and even a little bit into the beginning of this year, so it’d be natural to expect that the “Metamorphosis” shows might be kind of an extension of that “State of the World” tour — especially since she’s not doing a huge number of shows in Vegas; it’s 18 dates spread across May, July and August. But, looking at setlists, it’s evident this is a completely different show, and a very fan-servicing one, packing in at least excerpts of close to 40 songs, with a surprisingly strong emphasis on tunes from the ‘90s and early 2000s that she hasn’t performed in ages, or ever. The show opens with “Empty,” a track from “The Velvet Rope” that was never a part of her tours before, and is soon followed by fan favorite “Trust a Try,” from “All for You,” which hasn’t been brought out since she sang it a handful of times in 2001-02. It’s right about here that Janet cultists will be weepy with gratitude and casual ticket buyers will be wondering if the “Rhythm Nation 30[SUP]th [/SUP]anniversary” promise on the thousand-foot signboard outside was hooey.

Don’t worry, she’s getting there. It’s a “Let’s Wait A While” kind of night when it comes to the commemorative stampede of 1989/1814 nostalgia. But for much of the show she’s making a calculated decision on where to come down on a critical Vegas residency conundrum: Do you hope that most of the audience is serious fans who flew in for a possibly one-time-only engagement? Or do you assume you’re getting a lot of tourists who really only know the top five singles and not much else?

Jackson means to satisfy them all with that nearly 40-song setlist, but she does a huge amount of truncating, too, to squeeze them into not much more than an hour and a a half. Most of the 1986 “Control” album, in particular, is forced into medleys, as it has been on other tours. Better to hear a third or half of those songs than none at all. But it can be frustrating passing through them so lickety-split, and any aspiring songwriters should be making pacts with God that if they’re ever blessed enough to come up with hits as good as “The Pleasure Principle” or “What Have I Done for You Lately,” they will repay the muse by playing them in their entirety in perpetuity.

But it’s hard to complain about the overall balance of a show that in implicit part reads as “A Tribute to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis” but has about as many healthy chunks devoted to the more updated, modern-clubby sounds of R&B. When she does finally get to the concentrated “Rhythm Nation” part of the set, where the hits are not as condensed, it provides a late gust of ebullience and energy — with the whole palette seeming to become more widescreen, as the full cast of dancers lines up across the now black and white stage, backed by enclosed stairways they occasionally climb and an elevated platform that Jackson traverses when they’re gone. They’re never gone for long: The star has always favored the “nation” part as much as the rhythm, so mass choreography is never more than a couple minutes from coming back.
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There are a few quick and awkward moments of eroticism inserted into a show that’s hardly about that at all. Jackson, who has always been an all-or-nothing gal when it comes to revealing her body, is in nothing mode with the costuming here, favoring updates on the socialist-youth-brigade chic of of the “Rhythm Nation” era. There is an attention-getting bit, however, during which Jackson lies down on the stage and, er, presents herself to the audience; judging from the Twitter response, this is already a fan-favorite bit of bawdiness. At another point, a guy is brought onto the stage to be plopped in a chair, which would seem to augur for a reprise of the old bit that has her sexually teasing and tormenting her guest — do people remember that she did this years before Spears brought it into her show? — but it’s suddenly over just as soon as it’s started. Maybe there’s a way to make these feel better integrated into the show instead of thinking that sex needs to be incorporated into the show as a quickie, like just another oldie in the succession of mid-show medleys.

Some things are an improvement on the tours of 25 and 30 years ago, besides the expanded catalog. Back then, she was a pioneer in drawing suspicion for not always having a live mic amid the choreography. It’s not as if every moment of “Metamorphosis” sounds organic, but along with the playing of a live band that eventually appears, caged, at either end of the stage (and who occasionally come out for a solo, as on the duplicated shredding of “Black Cat”), Jackson sure sounds like she’s figured out a way over the years to hoof it and still sing live for much of the show. She’s never been a belter, and you’re not coming to hear vocal gymnastics, but it makes a difference in the personability of the show.

Initially, you may be taken by the lack of singularly spectacular production numbers in the show. There are no stunts, per se, beyond Jackson literally dropping in on a descending logo at show’s beginning; Gaga’s flight harness remains safely in storage, somewhere backstage. But the show doesn’t really suffer from its lack of androids. The most enjoyable bit of stagecraft has Jackson and her dancers appear to be on a subway car, between two sets of projections, a good example of what can be done, design-wise, without unnecessary props.

Jackson has long embodied a lot of contradictory qualities: the shy exhibitionist; the young woman who retakes “Control” from her family, then embodies familial loyalty (needless to say, Michael Jackson songs are prominent among the introductory music, even if “Scream” has finally been pushed out of the setlist); the Marvin Gaye-like detour from social consciousness-raiser to pure sensualist. For strong women and for African American women in particular, she was a one-woman smorgasbord of identities from which to draw upon, and it’s energizing to feel that history in the buzz of the crowd as you walk in — it’s something that has the slightest bit more giddy gravitas circulating amid the slot machines outside the Park entrance. Based on that, she’d probably get a pass for putting 75 percent effort in, but “Metamorphosis” isn’t just dependent on residual affection for its pleasures. She’s doing a lot for us lately, too.

Jackson’s “Metamorphosis” show continues at the Park May 18, 21-22 and 25-26, July 24, 26-27 and 31, and August 2-3, 7, 9-10, 14 and 16-17.
 
Janet Jackson surprises dad who attended concert as Father's Day gift (August 12, 2019)

 
Janet Jackson's Son Asks to Watch Videos of Mom and Michael Jackson Dancing

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For Janet Jackson's son, it seems the apple has not fallen far from the musical tree.

While the pop icon's son Eissa Al Manna is not yet 3 years old, the little one already has taken a liking to music and dance. As his famous mama shared on Australian radio show, Carrie & Tommy, Eissa asks to watch videos of her and his late famous uncle, Michael Jackson, dancing.

"He says, 'See mama dance. Watch Uncle Michael and mama,' and he wants to see 'Scream' at that point," she said. She noted Eissa also does some of Michael's moves from "They Don't Care About Us" and also loves "Smooth Criminal."

"He carries a tune," Janet confirmed. "He's very musical, incredibly musical."

She noted her youngster loves being where the band is, the instruments and making up melodies. "He has really good pitch," she shared.
 
Paris78;4273708 said:
"He says, 'See mama dance. Watch Uncle Michael and mama,' and he wants to see 'Scream' at that point," she said.

Awww, that’s cute. :love: :)
 
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