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Teaming up with a big-name weight-loss company is so on-trend for stars that even A-listers are in on the game. Now, Janet Jackson is stepping up as the rep for Nutrisystem, a food delivery program.
“I’m not viewing this as a diet,” she tells USA Today. “I’m not putting a number on it. I don’t look at the scale. I’m going about it in a different way this time.”
The iconic pop singer’s weight has yo-yoed in the public eye for more than 20 years, and she says her obsession with maintaining a slim figure started in childhood. She said her late brother, Michael, also contributed to her body-image issues with his playful ribbing about her backside.
“He talked about my butt being too big. Some of us have a big butt, and some of us don’t. I’ve learned to accept it and love it.”
POP diva Janet Jackson will return to Oz today to resume the tour she had to postpone due to the escalation of the US trial over brother Michael’s death.
The Get Together hit maker pulled out of three Melbourne shows last week to be by her family’s side at the dramatic LA trial of Conrad Murray, who is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter over the drug-related death of the star.
Confidential has learned Jackson will fly into the Gold Coast this morning to prepare for her show tomorrow night although she too has been affected by the stoppage of all Qantas flights worldwide and is returning on a Virgin Blue flight.
Music industry insiders were worried she would not see out her concert commitments as the trial of Dr Murray nears its controversial conclusion.
While the prosecution used strong witnesses to try to prove Murray’s liability in administering a fatal dose of the sedative propofol, testimony yesterday alleged Jackson was responsible for his own death.
Janet, who rescheduled her three Melbourne shows into one arena concert on Thursday night, will appear at the Opera House on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday nights.
On this day in 1989, Janet Jackson started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814, only one of three albums to produce seven top ten US singles (the other two being Thriller by Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The USA).
Seven top ten singles! From one album!
Most acts dream of having seven top ten singles during their career, let alone from one album. And I wouldn’t mind, but out of the other two acts to achieve this feat, talk about keeping it in the family, it’s Janet’s brother Michael.
All three albums were released in the ’80s, when the music market was a totally different beast. No computers, no digital downloads, and for the first few years of the decade, no CDs! (The first CDs went on sale in November, 1982 and were mainly classical recordings.) So, these were still the days of the public making a visit to their local record store and buying a vinyl single. Oh, the memories!
So what made these three albums so popular at the time and so good that the record companies were in the enviable position to release most of the album as singles? Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 was released at the peak of her career; four of the singles were US No. 1′s: “Miss You Much”, “Escapade”, “Black Cat” and “Love Will Never Do (Without You)”. Both radio and MTV loved Janet. Jackson received nine Grammy nominations for the album, winning Best Music Video, Long Form for “Rhythm Nation” in 1990.
The commercial success of Jackson’s album became part of an important turning point for black women in the recording industry. Prior to the 1980s, black artists were often segregated, being limited to disco, soul, and rhythm and blues charts and radio airplay. As such, one important struggle for black women had been in their ‘crossover’ from dance music to white-dominated pop and rock. While the dominance of female superstars on the mainstream charts had been led by Madonna, artists such as Janet, Tina Turner, and Whitney Houston all reached superstar status with the help of MTV.
So Janet ended the decade as a massive global superstar, something her brother Michael had also achieved in the ’80s. His sixth studio album Thriller had been released on November 30, 1982, as the follow-up to his critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall. Thriller became—and currently remains—the best-selling album of all time, with over 100 million copies sold worldwide.
Maybe Michael had was partly responsible for his sister’s success. Thriller enabled Jackson to break down racial barriers via his appearances on MTV and meeting with President Ronald Reagan at the White House. The album was one of the first to use music videos as successful promotional tools—the videos for “Thriller”, “Billie Jean” and “Beat It” all received regular rotation on MTV.
And let’s not forget Bruce. Released in June, 1984, Born in the U.S.A. was the best-selling album of 1985 in the United States (and also Springsteen’s most successful album ever). “Dancing in the Dark”, “Cover Me”, “I’m on Fire”, “Glory Days”, “My Hometown” along with “Born in the U.S.A.” all expressed signs of hope in the daily fight of the standard American in following the American Dream. The album had a pop-flavored, radio-oriented sound that helped Springsteen to extend his popularity and appeal to mainstream audiences.
These were indeed very different times — no iTunes, no X Factor (thank God), no reality TV. Radio was still the dominant force delivering and making hits, backed with the new visual format of the video and the rising popularity of MTV. You heard it, your read about it and you saw the video — and then if you liked it, you parted with your hard earned cash. No free downloads, no Spotify. Just…great music.
Legendary pop icon is back! She is taking her 35 number one hits to 35 global cities where fans submitted suggestions on www.janetjackson.com to have their city selected. The idea behind this tour is just her hits in a more revealed, intimate and personal gig experience than ever before. No special effects just Janet and her amazing back catalogue and vocals.
Janet will also be selecting the first fan winner of the contest in voting for the each of the selected cities. The winner will be announced on www.JanetJackson.com and they will receive an autographed copy of NUMBER ONES and an autographed copy of her upcoming book “True You” (on stands February 8th). In each of the 35 cities Janet will dedicate one of her number one songs to the city.
It’s her ‘Number Ones, Up Close and Personal’ tour and she will be in Dublin on July 5th 2011 to play The Grand Canal Theatre. Tickets for her FIRST EVER IRISH SHOW are €59.80 / €76.25 / €81.25 depending on seating and tickets go on sale Thursday 19th May at 9am.
Tickets can be obtained via www.ticketmaster.ie and outlets nationwide.
Janet has expressed her gratitude and excitement for the upcoming show with the following statement:
I thank my fans who have voted and helped me choose the cities we are announcing today. Each of you are so important to me. These concerts will be different from anything I have ever done. I will be as up close and personal as possible. These concerts are not about special effects. This is a love affair between me and those of you who have supported me and my work for all these years. I’ll be singing and dancing from my heart. The music will all be songs that you’ve made number ones for me. Let’s go! In each city I want to meet 20 young leaders who are changing their communities for the better. Please contact janetjackson.com so that I will know who is making a major difference in your city. I’m asking my fans and their friends, Parents, relatives, neighbors and teachers to nominate five people to qualify as one of the 20 under 20 in each place I will perform. At each concert the 20 people chosen and the person who nominated them will be VIP guests at my show. I will invite the 20 sponsors and the 20 winners to the concert and back stage. There are many young people changing the word and I want them to be recognized during my tour. I want them to be my guest at my show and they will come back stage as I learn from them how young people are changing the world. You all know someone who is making a difference, so get in touch. I love you all and I can’t wait to be back on stage, I’ve missed you,”
“True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself” by Janet Jackson (Feb. 8). It’s “part biography and part self-help,” Popoff says, and “will appeal to Jackson’s music fans as well as to readers who are curious about her both as a celebrity and sister of Michael Jackson.”
Pop icon Janet Jackson covered the August 2010 issue of Essence, and now the accompanying photoshoot for that very cover has now surfaced. The lusty 44-year-old kept things demure but still sexy and classy in the spread which features the drop dead gorgeous actor Adam Rodriguez of ‘CSI: Miami’ fame. The things I would do to that man is something serious.
When he heard Janet requested him to play her love interest for the shoot, he was beyond flattered. He says she has a “genuine sweetness”, before continuing “It’s a beautiful thing to see someone with that kind of lifelong success hold on to something that most people lose so easily when put in the spotlight”.
Best quote in the article is this one: So when you’re thinking of asking Miss Jackson, “What have you done for me lately?” remember that Britney, Ciara and Beyonce live in the house that Janet built”. Truer words have never been spoken. Check out more scans after the jump. Picture source.
And then there were three. As Janet Jackson opened her much anticipated Friday night Essence Fest headlining set in the Superdome with “The Pleasure Principle,” first one, and then another, avatar appeared via the magic of hologram projection. The faux-Janets danced alongside the flesh-and-blood Janet before vaporizing. Even without her ethereal body doubles, she danced enough for three people.
For the first non-stop 15 minutes of her nearly two hour set, Jackson and her 12 dancers engaged in an eye-popping display of ultra-crisp choreography. Clad in future-shock silver and gold armor with knee-high boots, her hair cropped short, her eyes lined in heavy black makeup, her body supple and strong, Ms. Jackson cut a fierce figure.
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Charlie Wilson, Jackson’s predecessor on the main stage, won over the crowd with a sweaty, old-fashioned, old-school style of showmanship; he was the night’s heart and soul. Jackson’s set, by contrast, was a thoroughly contemporary spectacle for the eyes and hips.
The bass-heavy mix of the Dome’s main stage sound system emphasized the club beat at the heart of “What Have You Done For Me Lately” and “Miss You Much.” Her band – a drummer, two keyboardists, a keyboardist/bassist and a guitarist – focused mostly on providing the pulse for Jackson and her dancers.
The two massive iceberg-like structures flanking the huge stage functioned as lo-res video walls, this in addition to the six hi-res screens on and around the stage. Except for virtual video guest appearances by Q-Tip and Nelly, all that video power at Jackson’s disposal was underutilized – especially considering the impact of her innovative music videos.
A bees-eye view of a flight through an animated flower patch inexplicably filled the screens during “All For You.” Screen-saver-like geometric patterns were another constant. During one costume change intermission, the same dozen or so glamour shots of Jackson cycled around the screens. And yes, it is possible to grow weary of a portrait of the shapely star in a yellow bikini.
Another break was devoted to clips from Jackson’s acting career. The first, from “Good Times,” showed her as terrified young Penny about to be the victim of child abuse – a proven concert buzz kill. A clip from “Diff’rent Strokes” featured the recently deceased Gary Coleman. The late Tupac Shakur’s Lucky flirted with Jackson’s Justice in “Poetic Justice,” her 1993 big-screen debut. In a now infamous scene from Tyler Perry’s current “Why Did I Get Married Too?”, a scorned Jackson lays waste to glass table tops with a golf club.
Perhaps if her Essence appearance was part of a tour instead of her only planned concert 2010, a snazzier video presentation would have been prepared.
As impressive as her opening dance exercise was – that she and her crew logged weeks of hard work in rehearsals was obvious – it was a little cold and impersonal. When she left the stage for a costume change, the Dome was eerily quiet – but no one was leaving.
She returned in a gorgeous lavender and silver evening gown for a set of intimate ballads: “Nothing,” “Let’s Wait a While,” “Again.” Her voice was simultaneously delicate and strong, innocent and worldly. Here she supplied the heart and soul that was lacking early on. With the subsequent “Love Will Never Do (Without You),” an exceedingly pleasant midtempo romp, she finally seemed to be enjoying herself.
Having serviced the audience’s eyes, mind and heart, Jackson and company moved further south. During “Any Time Any Place,” dancers crawled on stage in black leather bondage gear, simulating S&M sex acts. Jackson shed a dominatrix cloak to reveal a skimpy, flesh-colored – her flesh color – leotard with strategically placed black stripes that, at a glance, appeared to be tribal tattoos.
A man plucked from the audience found himself strapped into a straight-jacket-like device inside a steel frame. A stern Jackson stalked over and, as an unsmiling taskmaster, proceeded to render him the helpless object of her, umm, affection. She buried his face in her bosom, licked his cheek and stroked his crotch. Finally, she laid him down on his back and mounted him.
“Miss Jackson, if you’re nasty” indeed. Whatever he paid for his ticket, he got his money’s worth, and then some.
The closing hit parade encompassed the snarling electric guitar of “Black Cat,” a sharp “Nasty” and “Rhythm Nation,” with yet another display of flawless choreography. Jackson reportedly planned to end the show with another hologram special effect. But a technical glitch with the hologram screen – stagehands struggled to raise it after the show’s opening sequence – apparently scuttled that idea.
Instead, as Jackson sang her breezy 1997 smash “Together Again,” video screens filled with pictures of her and her brother Michael as children. She co-wrote the song as a tribute to friends who died of AIDS. But in the wake of Michael’s passing, lines like, “Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you’re there, smiling back at me” assumed a whole other, more personal meaning.
Beaming, struggling with emotion, Jackson and her dancers held hands, bowed, and bounded off stage. In the show’s final, and most poignant, moment, emotion trumped technology.
Click here to read The Times-Picayune’s interview with Janet Jackson.
Family members of the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, including Janet Jackson, confronted the judge today that will preside over the trial of Michael Jackson’s controversial former physician Dr. Conrad Murray.
Fans donning “Justice for Michael” T-shirts gathered outside the courtroom.
Many of Michael Jackson’s family members regard Dr. Murrray as the “murderer” of Michael Jackson.
The next preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 14th.
Over the weekend, claims surfaced that Dr. Conrad Murray’s defense team is allegedly preparing to argue in court that the late King of Pop was responsible for his untimely death.
Dr. Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician, may argue in trail that the recording superstar killed himself.
According to reports from TMZ, Murray’s defense team is prepared to argue that it was Michael Jackson who personally administered the fatal dose of propofol to himself, not Dr. Conrad Murray.
On June 25th 2009, Michael Jackson died as a result of a propofol overdose. And while Dr. Murray says he did, in fact, provide Jackson with an injection of the drug, it was Michael Jackson who took more – a decision that ultimately proved fatal for Michael Jackson.
Will justice be served regarding Michael Jackson’s death, or will Dr. Murray’s rumored defense strategy ultimately prevail? Please leave your thoughts and comments below.
