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Inevitable Denouements Dept. After a slew of problems including rumors of low ticket sales, vertigo, bailing openers, and a really unsexy part of her show being censored for its "raciness," Janet Jackson has thrown in the towel and canceled the rest of her Rock Witchu Tour. [Palm Beach Post]

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show business for ugly people

Where Would We Be Today If Hillary Clinton Had Campaigned Behind "Rhythm Nation"?

What with all the controversy over certain campaigns using certain songs this season, it was enlightening to read Hillary Clinton adviser/music blogger Howard Wolfson's discussion of how the Clinton campaign went about branding itself musically earlier this year, a decision that was quite fraught because of her Senatorial run's use of Billy Joel's "Captain Jack." (Seriously! "Captain Jack"! Was Hillary running on a "getting the people of New York high tonight" platform in 1999?) Wolfson ran down a few potential theme songs that were shot down for various reasons by Clinton insiders in today's New York Times: More »

2:00 PM on Tue Nov 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
437 views, 6 comments

Latest by Audif Jackson Winters III: @Chris Molanphy: That's amazing if true, because I remember what a media firestorm that issue created. I bet Rush Limbaugh got two shows of material out of that ... all over an intern hitting the track skip button one too more »

nontroversies

Janet Jackson: Less Sex Is More Publicity

Janet Jackson's Rock Witchu Tour has been having a rough go of it lately, what with shows being canceled due to Jackson's bouts with vertigo, LL Cool J's departure from the opening slot, and rumors of lousy ticket sales. And now comes the latest insult: Jackson had to trim a three-song segment from her set list while performing in Detroit last night, thanks to Michigan laws that prohibit simulated sex in public places. "Janet did not want to disappoint her Detroit-area fans again," Jackson's manager Kenneth Crear told Billboard, "so we adhered to Michigan's state ordinance and trimmed the 'Discipline' segment of the show so it would not be canceled." Not to mention that the show would get more publicity for being "too sexy"! It's just like the Super Bowl, except Jackson has a worse hairdo this time out. Anyway, Jackson apologized for the lack of sexiness during her show's encore—but she didn't mention that anyone who was feeling cheated by The Michigan Man could see the segment on YouTube! More »

11:00 AM on Wed Oct 29 2008
By Maura Johnston
430 views, 1 comment

Latest by Guy on the Windscreen: Did Dabney Coleman bail on the tour as well? I'm pretty sure that's his garage door opener jockstrap apparatus from "9 to 5". more »

cancellations

LL Cool J To Janet Jackson: "Smell You Later"

LL Cool J has pulled out of Janet Jackson's Rock Witchu Tour due to "scheduling conflicts" that cropped up after Jackson had to reschedule a bunch of shows because of a bout with vertigo. No word on who's going to replace LL on the dates yet, but whoever signs on might want to stock up on their good luck charms before hitting the road. [AP]

9:30 AM on Tue Oct 28 2008
By Maura Johnston
258 views, 1 comment

somethin 4 the weekend

What Are Your Jukebox Staples?

Wednesday night I spent $16 on jukeboxes at two establishments in New York City. Sixteen dollars! That could buy, I don't know, three pints of ice cream at the bodega down the block. But I felt like the investment was worth it, particularly at the second bar I visited, where six Washingtons allowed me to blare 19 songs throughout the bar and my friend and I were pretty much the only customers left in the place. Not that other patrons would have stopped me from playing the Monkees' "Valleri" and the Raincoats' "In Love"*; after all, the huge catalogs of the Internet-jukebox era have made it a lot easier to impose your tastes on others, even if doing so costs you an extra credit per song. So this weekend, I wonder: What songs will you always play on a jukebox if you have some unused dollar bills rustling around your wallet? Five songs that I have no problem dropping 25 to 100 cents on after the jump. More »

6:15 PM on Fri Oct 24 2008
By Maura Johnston
964 views, 40 comments

Latest by andrialisle: huh -- we don't have the same kind of jukeboxes in Memphis. most of the places in Midtown still rely on good ol' vinyl! nevertheless,the pop-culture disparity pointed out in your post inspired this: [www.memphismc.com] more »

After being sidelined by an ailment that sent her to the hospital, Janet Jackson is ready to return to the road: Her Rock Witchu tour resumes tomorrow night in Uncasville, Conn. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like she had a change of heart about her stage costumes while in the hospital, which is a shame. [MTV]

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Janet Jackson had to postpone her concert in Montreal last night after being rushed to a local hospital shortly before showtime—so close to curtain, in fact, that some concertgoers were inside Montreal's Bell Centre when news of the postponement came down. "That's never happened before in Bell Centre history," a spokesman for the show's promoter said. Hey, at least something sorta-historic came out of this tour, right? [National Post]

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snits

Janet Jackson And LL Cool J's Last Tour Stop: Obscurity?

There's still a month or so left on the Janet Jackson/LL Cool J tour (get psyched, Connecticut!), but if the music industry were to have what seems to be its way, the Oct. 22 Dallas date would be both acts' music biz retirement party. More »

11:00 AM on Tue Sep 23 2008
By Dan Gibson
1,701 views, 4 comments

the last word

Janet Jackson Is Not Just A Crotch-Grabber


I've been watching videos from Janet Jackson's tour and getting kinda sad—thanks to Janet's oversexed listlesssness, lip-syncing, and absolutely awful outfits—but as one who's always willing to give people who have made some of my favorite records the benefit of the doubt, I figured I'd let people who were actually at the show weigh in on the evening. So here's a special edition of The Last Word, in which we bundle together the kickers of new-music reviews, devoted to writeups of her show earlier this week at the Staples Center in Los Angles: More »

9:30 AM on Fri Sep 19 2008
By Maura Johnston
752 views, 1 comment

Latest by Tauwan: I saw video of her performing Discipline in Oakland Monday or Tuesday night. Because I am such a die hard fan I decided to sit through the entire thing. I still don't know what to say, and it's Friday morning. more »

sibling rivalry: it's torture

The Jacksons Almost Reunite On Stage Yet Again

Last night's BMI Urban Awards in Los Angeles honored the Jacksons for "lifetime achievement," and featured Lloyd singing "I'll Be There," which sadly has not shown up on YouTube yet. Of the six Jacksons who performed with the singing group, Michael and Jermaine were missing, a fractured state that caused reporters to ask where the self-proclaimed King Of Pop was—and Marlon to crack that he was "in Egypt riding a camel or something"—but no questions about the wherabouts of Jermaine. Sure, his current stretch of reality-TV appearances makes him a bit less of a mystery, but don't reporters know that it's unsubtle sibling-related snubs like these that make the full-on reunion they're craving less and less of a possibility? You'd think every entertainment reporter out there was an only child, I tell you. [AP / YouTube]

9:30 AM on Fri Sep 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
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track eight mind

Crazy For Eight: Let's Make A Mix Consisting Of Albums' Eighth Tracks

Today is the day to get all nutso about eights, or, maybe to just get nutso, if you have Olympic and/or Jonas Brothers and/or Boredoms-drum-extravaganza fever. (Woe to the person who's suffering from all three.) All the eight-related hoopla got me to thinking about how the eighth track on many an album is a hit-or-miss proposition; particularly on longer albums in the CD era, it serves as something of a midpoint, and albums become unfocused and maybe stick their not-as-good tracks in there. For example: track eight on Appetite For Destruction, for example, is the OK-but-not-great "Think About You," while track eight on Nevermind is the relatively irritating to my ears "Drain You." And not to be all lazy-Google-research about this, but the phrase "track 8 is my favorite" only has 22 hits on the search engine; spell out the word "eight," and you're down to four.) Anyway, I decided to root through my collection and find some outstanding examples of an album's eighth track—eight, in fact. They're unordered, although the last one on the list is probably my favorite (and I found an amazing live version of it, to boot). Feel free to add your own! More »

2:00 PM on Fri Aug 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,062 views, 59 comments

Latest by NoNewYork: i love drain you. more »

A Federal appeals court has thrown out the FCC's $550,000 fine against CBS for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl halftime show four and a half years ago. The court pointed out that Jackson's breast was exposed on television for 9/16 of a second, and thought that the FCC's $977,777.78 per-second rate for bared cleavage was the result of the agency acting "arbitrarily and capriciously" and that since the image was fleeting, it wasn't worthy of being fined. [AP]

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mamma khia!

Khia Hates On Janet And Broke-Ass Record Execs, Craves Lil Wayne's Lollipop

Khia, disqualified Miss Rap Supreme contestant and author of "My Neck, My Back," has launched a busload of blog beef, occasioned in part by her leaving Big Cat Records two weeks before the release of her new album, Nasti Muzik 08. She claims that the label wrote her a bad check and gave her nothing in the way of promotion. "So guess what????? Say hello to my little Jewish friend........ You know dat Im gonna laugh all the way to the bank dontcha??? Yall betta have all yall receipts, invoices and budgets together.... Cuz Im bout to sue the hell out yall assess!!!!!!" Khia also takes issue with those who haven't signed her, like Jermaine Dupri, who claimed on Hot 97 that Khia was "ungrateful" for the attention she received from being on Janet Jackson's 2006 flop "So Excited." Khia, unsurprisingly, thinks the real problem is that Dupri's gay and Jackson's menopausal. "Now run and tell dat!!!!!! Nasti Muzik 08!!!!!" More »

10:15 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,161 views, 6 comments

Latest by Al Shipley: You may remember Big Cat Records as the label that got into a dispute with Def Jam over the song "So Icy" (which led to the whole Gucci Mane/Young Jeezy beef), and the label that Gucci Mane sued for an more »

fantasy music league

I Beg Your Pardon, But The Time For A Response Song To An Old Pop Chestnut Is Long Overdue


If a cheeky keyboard-driven outfit were to craft a peppy minor hit out of an 18-year-old soft-rock song, similar to the way the Canadian outfit Kon Kan transformed Lynn Anderson's "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" into their U.S. top 20 track "I Beg Your Pardon," what song would you pick to be rescued from the pop history books? Feel free to ponder this question while noting the lyrical back-and-forth between the Kon Kan track and the Anderson song, which I've placed after the jump. More »

3:00 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Maura Johnston
280 views, 7 comments

Latest by wakeupbomb: The Suicide Machines did a cover of Rose Garden too...or maybe they did a cover of I Beg Your Pardon...either way it's pretty good. more »

burning questions

Does Indie Need To Be More Influenced By Janet Jackson?


Fluxblog proprietor Matthew Perpetua has a plea for all those indie musicians out there who want to make music that can be described by the terms "limp psychedelic folk, faux-Animal Collective bullshitting, [or] lame-ass attempts at mimicking the Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine": Get new influences, please. He takes his first such shot across the bow of schmindie today, launching a series called, simply, "Your New Influences" that asks musicians to think about what makes great songs tick, even (especially?) if said tracks venture far beyond the usual lump of guitar-drone goo. His first suggestion is a great one—Janet Jackson's fire-breathing 1989 track "Miss You Much," which he's recommending because of its Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis production, because Rhythm Nation 1814's overall aesthetic can be gleaned from just one listen, and because it's a firecracker of a song. More »

1:45 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,268 views, 29 comments

Latest by blockofice: Oh, I don't think they've pigeonholed themselves since the age of 12, but it's easy to work yourself into a rut. I think this is all fake controversy, actually, although it has illuminated a little about what people think more »

everybody bloats... sometimes

Five Videos That Are More Bloated Than A Belly After A Beer-And-Fries Binge

Today's completely dubious claim about why an arm of the music industry might be hurting comes from Wired's Scott Thill, who wrote in response to R.E.M.'s new, ad-agency-created video for "Man-Sized Wreath": "Music videos aren't dead, they're just dying, and they're dying because of bloated videos like 'Everybody Hurts.' When fans can use their favorite songs to make their amateur films without fear of losing their comparatively miniscule cookie jars, then the new age of promotional video will be here at last." Say what? More »

11:00 AM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,198 views, 21 comments

Latest by TheMojoPin: @StuntKockSteeev: Wow, "Victory" is epic fail on a massive scale. These other videos might be "bloated," but they're at least remembered. People know what they are as soon you mention them...but "Victory?" I probably saw that a hundred times when it more »

what have you sung for us lately?

Five Singles Janet Jackson Shouldn't Bother Relearning For Her Tour

Janet Jackson has some ambitious plans for her upcoming tour. "My true goal is to try at least do every single that I've ever had. So, I've got to figure out a way to fit this in two hours, and yet give them enough of each song so that they don't feel hungry for more of that song in particular." Wow! If we generously qualify "single" as songs with American-released videos (and ignore some airplay-charting B-sides), that's still more than 30 tracks. Seeing as how she's probably too proud to just ignore everything she's done since the wardrobe malfunction, I've got five post-Rhythm Nation 1814 (the singles on that and Control are unfuckwithable) songs that she might think about just yelling the title of in the middle of a medley. More »

11:00 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,105 views, 8 comments

Latest by KikoJones: "When I Think of You" is hands-down, the greatest of all of Janet's singles. Word. more »

crash landings

Janet Jackson's Label Not-So-Subtly Hinting "Discipline" Was A Flop

Hey, remember that Janet Jackson album that came out a few months ago? Debuted at No. 1, swiftly dropped off the charts afterward? No? Well, apparently Island Def Jam, Janet's label, is trying to put it out of its collective mind, too. During a conference call about her upcoming tour, she told reporters that there probably wouldn't be another single from the album: "We started off with 'Feedback' and the label and myself haven't quite seen eye to eye since the 'Feedback' single so they've kind of basically stopped all promotion. I'm trying to figure out a way to say this, but just to say it and to be quite honest, they just stopped all promotion whatsoever on the album so I don't think you're going to hear another single off this album." I guess Island Def Jam has figured that 392,000 copies sold is as good as it's going to get. (For its part, a label rep told Billboard that while IDJ hasn't "experienced the results [it] would have liked with this new album," the people over there "respect and support Janet.") What happened, Janet? More »

9:30 AM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Maura Johnston
959 views, 12 comments

Latest by Maura Johnston: @cosmiclove: that was total sales. first-week sales were 296,000. more »