Comments on: Five Singles Janet Jackson Shouldn’t Bother Relearning For Her Tour

By: KikoJones

KikoJones — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:21:26 +0000

“When I Think of You” is hands-down, the greatest of all of Janet’s singles. Word.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:05:28 +0000

LOL my snarky friend just told me
‘”the title of this should actually be “Five Albums Janet Jackson Shouldn’t Bother Relearning for Her Tour”‘

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:40:05 +0000

Because of Love and Twenty Foreplay are both solid representations of "Classic Janet", I'm seeing this upcoming tour 2x and I'd be delighted to hear both of them.

Great call on the rest of those choices, I personally can do w/o anything from 20yo or Damita (save 'All Nite). Anybody going to this tour will be going *despite* her last 3 albums, not because of them.

Come on J, just give us the jams!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:34:00 +0000

She should just tour with Jellybean Johnson and the Time, and do 120 minute versions of “Black Cat” every night. Acid should probably also be involved.

By: bcapirigi

bcapirigi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:07:13 +0000

i don't think i ever even heard that nelly one. and again's okay, but i think anytime anyplace is better as far as poetic justice era balladry.

will she be doing anything from dream street, do you think?

By: Captain Wrong

Captain Wrong — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:26:04 +0000

"Rhythm Nation 1814 (the singles on that and Control are unfuckwithable)"

Amen.

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:10:12 +0000

"State of the World" and "The Knowledge" got a good deal of unsolicited Top 40 airplay in the waning days of RN1814. You're right that they weren't really singles, and hence they didn't chart on the Hot 100, but I think that''s only because A&M had already mined that record for seven Top 10 hits (including four No. 1's) already. Even in those days when the race between labels was to see who could score the most hits off one album (from Michael to George M. to Def Leppard to Paula Abdul), seven was generally considered the limit.

Sigh - then around 1991-92 a couple of label reps coined the term "album cannibalization," and we swung to the era of deleted singles, unreleased singles, hit "album cuts" and as little as one overplayed radio track promoting an album for as much as a year. I'll take the days of too many singles over that any day.

Oh, BTW, "Call on Me" was not a pop hit but was a huge R&B No. 1. No way she won't play it, especially in big cities.

By: Julio Allison

Julio Allison — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:14:58 +0000

On the contrary - I think she could make the lesser singles more lean and then incorporate them into a bathroom-break medley.