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5 hours ago, Jakob said:

I hope her team re-certifies Janet's numbers once they're kicking-off Black Diamond.... How long has it been exactly since her numbers were updated? 

Her numbers would only be bragging rights now. Dating as far back as the RN album, people would bootleg copies on cassette. The issue with recertification, is money. It costs money to recalculate sales, and in Janet's case if she got paid via contract to put out albums, as she did, then it may not be an interest for Janet nor her team to count what's not been counted. Janet wouldn't get more money neither would her record companies but they would lose money.

just saw WW 1984, chile  

1. Since when did she fly? I dont care if her golden lasso can catch lightning, gurl bye 

2. Barbara, gurl I get wanting to be someone hot and powerful, but the transition to being an animal, ummm how ,why? 

3. Is it me or did the world just go to hell in less than 30 minutes with no questions asked like ummm okay 

I can't give it more than a B- sorry  

I guess, let the white chick just be great, some of her stuff is like crack, its not good for you, but it feels good .....so I hear  

I'm all about my old school jams. So I started watching Unsung episodes

SWV ....damn they could sang  

Unsung - SWV - video Dailymotion

Alexander Oneal and Cherelle, Jimmy and Terry made some dammmnnnn good songs for them  

Alexander O'Neal & Cherrelle - TV One Unsung - YouTube

dude put himself out there like come thru sis   you get kudos for that

2 hours ago, Lenzo88 said:

No thank you, I’ve been watering my spiritual garden all year with all this bullsh!t. Also, I have no expectations anymore when it comes to Janet, I just don’t find her teasing exciting anymore given this year as a whole. That’s what I mean. I just don’t care about the album anymore.

Whoever wants all that doesn’t exist, are you ok???

chile ya'll got to have fun with the stuff  , Taylor Swift has the top selling album of the year and she sold 2 million copies WW. Of course no one is moving 5 million units 

2 hours ago, Angela said:

I believe she cooked it. I think she’s mentioned before that she can make sweet potato pie. 

the batter has zero lumps, so it looks good, maybe she can cook 4 more for my brothers I havent cooked in forever  

19 minutes ago, king_c said:

well, everything else is something she's done before though so we know it's at the very least possible

This era is gonna be Janet's biggest era! It's gonna have 5 #1 hits, 8 top 5 singles (beating her own record for Rhythm Nation) sell over 35 million worldwide and 17 million in the US AND become the most awarded album and highest grossing concert tour of all time.  Doesn't hurt to at least try and speak these things into existence 

even yo dreams fucked up  you forgot album of the year at the Grammys and Best Female Pop vocal Grammy  

18 minutes ago, king_c said:

Isn't the tested vaccine over 90% effective? I think that's really good. Idk how high and how many tests it needs to be, but the fact they got such high effective rate after less than a year (in the US) is hopeful and quite impressive.

people I know in healthcare are saying they wouldn't even take it, because it's not been properly tested, vaccines take years to go through proper vetting, now they are saying you may have to have two shots, which is not unheard of. Basically those that would take the vaccine would be guinea pigs  If the virus mutates, a vaccine may not be effective, and that's also not unheard of. I will say let's hope they do have an effective vaccine and it does come fast.

11 minutes ago, king_c said:

we all have desires but "5 million sold first week" 

but everything else in that hypothetical is cool? chile  

14 minutes ago, Laveaux said:

You care to much darling. Lower your expectations or don't have any. You want me to send you one of Janets generic inspirational quotes? 

the want 5 singles, all top ten hits, 5 million sold first week, 6 music videos, and a sold out Europe leg   How bout a two piece and a biscuit  

I thought we were never seeing her stomach again  

I wanna believe she cooked that pie as much as she ate it....fight me  

alert folks.....I told the young folks my fav, hell I kid you not, they didn't know her   Now if that's not a case for a legacy loss I dont what is

7 hours ago, Lenzo88 said:

Well then that excludes Damita Jo since it’s never been acclaimed or highly regarded outside the fanbase. In fact, this unnecessary attachment to this album by the fanbase is STILL staggering. I still find it hilarious that Damita Jo, 20 Y.O. and Discipline are practically interchangeable in terms of quality but Damita Jo was terribly underrated and overshadowed because of the Super Bowl fiasco. All a retread about sex, all a retread about her ex’s, all a retread with the generic love songs, wash, rinse, repeat. Even Jimmy has said Janet came into the studio and didn’t even want to write but told Terry to write something for Damita Jo.  Jimmy was shocked and said, “Why are we even making an album then???” His words, not mine. But do u boo.

Contract Janet and independent Janet are two different artists. The difference here is working for a company with deadlines and being your own boss working on your own time . All things considered Damita Jo holds up against most of her work post SB the best. that's no small feat 

5 minutes ago, Lenzo88 said:

Neither does having nothing to say!!!

I think we should confine the discussion to the Janet albums that are highly regarded, in this case Control to AFY, it's a losing proposition to talk about the post SB work, we all know those did not hold up well, with the exception of "Unbreakable" still a very good album and Damita Jo a good album too

its laidback and I think it would have done well in Europe

14 hours ago, Lenzo88 said:

It doesn’t matter when the album has some of her best singles/songs!!! TTWLG, If, Throb, This Time, etc. are faaaaarrr more creative and inventive than ANYTHING between All For You and Unbreakable. Let’s not exaggerate those flaws now when they r ONLY flaws. Janet. at least was original for Janet and not a tiresome retread like her 2004-2008 output!

great singles do not make a great cohesive album though. 

LWNDWY at the Macy's store

https://www.revolt.tv/2020/11/12/21562714/ariana-grande-janet-jackson-tommy-parker-producer-songwriter-interview

Just now, king_c said:

But janet. is one of her best albums...?

Its part of a time in her career where things were going very well, so it is listed as such, hindsight is 20/20. The Janet. album is a diamond with flaws  

14 hours ago, PensivePutana said:

I think New Jack Swing was mostly an American phenomenon, that didn't have much reach overseas.

so Europe slept on a major music moment  the problem with that is music builds on itself, so a lot of what we hear today came from those that laid the foundation

the UK is a different story regarding Janet. Janet's reception in Europe was always different than other areas. 

RN like so many of Janet's albums really was an eclectic hybrid of rock pop soul r&b, that's the thing with Janet, she has such a diverse reach. Take the RN album, if you just went by single alone, and not hearing any other insert Black Cat, by itself, what would you think? If you took say just Escapade alone what would you think? Let's take RN alone, what would you think? ..All of those tracks came off the same album though

love it   you betta grab dat sample from Herb