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Purchased!   

Omg, I hope this is being sent to radio. I need my iTunes download ASAP!

I was wondering whether atl was sold out and they haven't announced it. There was nothing available when I checked the presale today at ten. And no tickets come up for American Express or preorder album codes either.

I remember watching the control album vids. I had to have been around 4 (my older sister was a big fan). Miss you much is when I latched on, dancing on chairs in the living room.

 I dont know where he is sitting, but if im paying that much i might as well be on the damn stage with her.

 

And nobody answered my original question...do many people have access to presale tickets? I dont want a bunch of nosebleed tickets to be left over.

I couldn't pull anymore up for ATL today. Live Nation presale goes up Friday, I believe, and regular sale on Monday. When the Amex/pre-order sale was up this Monday for Atl, tickets were ranging $45 (lawn) to $150 (orchestra pit/floor behind pit). The close main pit/floor seats were $350. I paid about $118 a piece for orchesta. I'm hoping more of the orchestra/pit for $150 will open up myself.

I feel ya. I'm Row V, Orch-C. Wondering if I can get better tickets at the Live Nation pre-sale on Fri or on Mon and resell through Ticketmaster.

not too happy about my seats( ORCH-L, Row H) for the 9/26 at Chasten Park show

Tickets for Atlanta purchased.

It seems the media is desperate for Janet Jackson to quit the industry. Despite Janet and her team admitting on various occasions that a new album is in the pipeline, the media just refuses to acknowledge it.

Instead they repeat the same mantra: Janet has quit the industry, gone into hiding, converted to Islam and refuses to see her family – with gossip about her brothers begging for money and her suffering from severe OCD.

Janet told Billboard last month: “I am working on a new project now.” Soon after Miss Jackson was pictured at a writing session with producer Tommy Parker and Ian Cross, the A&R and Producer Engineer at Janet Jackson Music. Parker is also a writer/producer at Darkchild Records.

For some reason the media seems to have always resented Janet’s success in the 80?s and 90?s, when her rise started with “Control” they immediately claimed it was just because of her famous brother,

Then they started comparing her to Madonna and critics seemed to love explaining why Madonna did things better than Janet, despite Janet often scoring bigger chart successes than the ambitious blonde.

Still, the critics got their way, after 2004 and now take great pride in belittling Janet’s (in their eyes) lack of success. To some she is even seen as a “has been”. A very successful “has been”: her last album debuted at number one, and so did two of her recent movies.

Recently it has become clear that they are effectively trying to wipe her out of musical history. The fact that without her artists like Britney, Rihanna’s and Beyoncé’s would not exist is alien to them.

The Superbowl is always cited as the reason of her fall. But they forget: She played THE SUPERBOWL. There is a reason she performed at the Superbowl as she was one of the biggest female singers in history in music up until 2004. You can divide her career between the time leading up to the Superbowl and the time following it.But come on, people. Of course Janet’s decline had nothing to do with a “nip slip”. Yes, it was a “wardrobe malfunction” in front of a massive audience, but should it really be still be important 10 years after? Many female artists fell out of their dresses at public functions, even at kids award shows. And come to think of it, if a nip slip could cost you a career Madonna wouldn’t have had a career in the first place.

The only reason “Damita Jo”, that followed the incident, sold less, was due to lack of radio and MTV support and promo, which was due to her Superbowl performance. It was clear that the aftermath of this would be used to taint the singer ever since.

The second album following “Damita Jo”, “20 Y.O.” proved this, suffering again from lack of promo and continuing boycott of her music on radio and TV.

When “Discipline” came along they had to ease on the boycott a little and the result? Her 6th number 1 album, making her the only performer ever to have 6 albums debut at number 1.

Despite the media ignoring and ridiculing her, Janet Jackson still managed to sell millions and did a very successful tour. Still the media treat her like she’s nothing. They purposely ignore her.

During the years before The Superbowl Janet and Madonna were seen as equal. But after the Superbowl Madonna suddenly pushed forward as the biggest female singer of the 80?s and 90?s. It was as if everyone had been waiting for Janet to slip up. Janet Jackson had paved the way for many, but everything that should be rightfully accredited to her (and in some instances Whitney Houston) now went to Madonna.

It has now gone to the point where Madonna might as well have been the only female singer in the 80?s and 90?s until Britney Spears, JLo (discovered by Janet) and Destiny’s Child came along.

For those that don’t realize, Janet Jackson is a true artist whom changed the music and music industry. Janet actually spent much more time at the top of Billboard Hot 100 then Madonna. Her longest chart score was “That’s The Way Love Goes” 8 weeks at the top of the chart, Madonna’s was “Take A Bow” 7 weeks.

Janet Jackson is the only artist EVER to have 7 Top 5 singles from one album “Rhythm Nation 1814? and biggest debut tour ever with 2,5 million tickets sold. She was also the first one who used hands-free microphone in 1986, only later adopted by Madonna.

Janet Jackson also won more American Music Awards then any other female artist and was named as the first MTV Icon in 2001.

She also had 3 #1 movies and one #1 bestselling book. She was the first artist with #1 singles in the 80?s, 90?s and 00?s at the Billboard Hot 100.

Her dance routines are still “borrowed” by many new female singers – while Rihanna has based most of her image by recreating several of Janet’s looks reworked S&M style.

From Britney to Ciara, Janet Jackson inspired half the pop acts from the last decade and re-defined what it meant to be a female artists.

Still it looks like she will never truly be recognized for what she did. She said in her book True You that for the last few years she suffered from racism in the industry, saying “doors that had opened for others were closed in my face, just because of the color of my skin. (…) Today’s racism is more disguised and subtle. But it’s there – and it hurts on many levels.”

Source - Ohnotheydidnt

I'm seriously wondering if the Vegas show has her contracted not to perform. It's stupid. Whether she's in her old shape, barely lucid mannequin circus state, or okay femme fatale, people expect to see her actually PROMOTE. She's a performing artist, and the show, album, and singles will suffer with her not on tv performing live.

wet platinum.

registered toward the end of AFY, circa 2002. Always more of a lurker, though.

I came close to feeling that way at "The Circus starring Britney Spears." I've seen all of her tours live since the OIDIA era, and that was the ONLY one I personally found suspect. If it weren't for the PCD's 40 minute set and the 30 minute actual circus set, I would have been upset. People rag on Femme Fatale (It's beneath Dream within a dream and Onyx Hotel Britney) but Circus was embarrassing for a woman with her hits and only 2 females (Beyonce and P!nk) in her generation that come close in entertainment.

*slight day 1 spoiler* the first taping was in Charleston tonight. Kelly is def the nicest, but she isn't afraid to tell it how it is. Paulina . . . .I was defending her to my friends who never heard of her until she told a 16 year old girl, "that song . . it . . it is nice. You wrote it?" about "Not Ready to make nice." Her comments over-all are a little generic, too.

"When I think of you" is probably the only Janet #1 that I've never been attached to. I listen to it on my playlist or on cds; I just never seek it out to play. I do find that a lot of my friends who basically only know her #1s love that song and "Escapade" like they were the best songs ever written.

She still has it. It's obvious in her music videos and her behind the scenes rehearsal videos that she does. Even performing live, she still has more stage presence that most but it is different. It didn't really click to me until I saw Jennifer Lopez in concert last year because she was the same . . . . when Britney performs live now, she takes most of the leg work out of her routines. Everything above waist is fine, but her new choreography have little and her old choreo has had the leg work taken out. I don't know if it's laziness or her two knee injuries (Drive Me Crazy Tour and Onyx Hotel Tour), but her dances look a lot less fluid because it's gone. Arm movement, hair tosses, and a kick can only do so much.

voted.

I swear, if she ever had a stand up show, I would go..she be going off on Fashion Police..

She's doing a show in Columbia, SC for SC Pride on July 13th.

is this the same as "being t" that had a trailer a couple years ago and disappeared? either way, holla, J!

Elephunk and Monkey Business were really good albums, but I loved The E.N.D. I thought it was the perfect mix of what made the Black Eyed Peas special in their own way mixed with mass market popular music appeal. The Beginning was a mess. Outside of Just Can't Get Enough and Fergie's part of the Time of your life sample, I did not like that album. When Dirty Bit came out, I rolled my eyes at the thought that pure dance music was where pop was going. The sad thing is, everyone that came out after that (including Brit with Hold It Against Me) did it better. I don't know where Will.I.Am was going with that album, but he should have either taken another year or waited for Fergie to have a second solo before pushing forward.

Yes, he has flip flopped on the issue. When he was a senator, he supported. When he was first elected, he only supported civil unions. The fact of the matter is he is taking a bigger risk switching to support marriage equality now instead of waiting after the election. Anyone who believed he didn't support marriage equality (including the pushy gay activists) just were not reading between the lines. I am proud of him for coming out in support now in stead of waiting until after the election. I just hope he and his team's conviction on this subject will not turn away bigots who support him on other issues but not this one.

I luv Madonna (only less than Janet) and I like that she's something straight up pop instead of dance like most people, but.... I keep wanting to sing "Lil Mama and Avril Lavigne! The Remix! Lil Mama and Avril Lavigne!"