LL Bailed on Janet's "Sinking Ship"

1. Oh Yeah...THAT'S a good career move Janet...

Posted at 9:28AM on Nov 7th 2008 by Banana Hammock

2. Janet no longer has a career. She peaked with the Control album and it's been downhill ever since.

Posted at 10:40AM on Nov 7th 2008 by ugh!

3. Janet has just gotten too raunchy, humping guys on stage during her last concerts. Geez. I'm her age, and thankfully, I've grown and gotten some depth to my character. Unfortunately, Janet hasn't. Too, she's obviously not a very savvy business woman. After Nipplegate, she should have turned down the sexuality and quickly admitted that it wasn't just a wardrobe malfunction. People are not ignorant. People could see through her denials. Not only did she fail to come clean, she miscalculated and ramped up the sexuality on succeeding releases. I think it has potentially cost Janet her career, unless she comes back with a fun, socially relevant CD like "Rhythm Nation", and keeps her breast implants covered, and stops humping guys on stage. In short, she just needs to clean-up her image and emerge with a more cutting edge sound and abandon all those silly interludes inbetween the tracks that weigh down the album. The subpar single "Feedback" and its low quality video was a tragic misstep that only compounded her problems.

Posted at 10:42AM on Nov 7th 2008 by Danny

4. I would also recommend that Janet align herself with a charity and doing some public good, so she could begin to get some positive press to replace all the negativity surrounding her botched concert tour. I think she screw-up in not going back and performing in the cities where she cancelled. I don't know how forgiving fans will be that she cancelled and didn't come back. That's a big no-no! Janet really needs better management right now. She obviously hasn't been making good decisions about her career since Nipplegate and beyond.

Posted at 11:03AM on Nov 7th 2008 by Danny

5. agree with #4 (steve) she needs to make more socially relevant music...have seen a few clips of her recent concert...was not impressed !!!

Posted at 11:09AM on Nov 7th 2008 by northern gypsy

6. Actually "ugh!", Rhythm Nation 1814 & janet. were more successful that Control, and it's safe to say her peak was during the release of janet. and its singles (up to 1995).

Posted at 11:19AM on Nov 7th 2008 by .

7. correction...sorry # 4...your name is danny...

Posted at 11:13AM on Nov 7th 2008 by northern gypsy

8. Old news. Janet never could sing live, and she is too raunchy-has been for years. Not to mention her crazy family, so there goes her career.

Posted at 11:38AM on Nov 7th 2008 by vj-dj

9. Janet is forgetting that she can still be sexy without being so raunchy. "Funny How Time Flies", from "Control" was very classy, sophisticated and sexy. It wasn't over the top, like missteps such as "Warmth", "Moist", "Go Deep", "Discipline", etc. She has to get back to what made her such a winning brand in the beginning. I think her fans have missed the more positive, wholesome, classy, restrained Janet, with the gorgeous, bright smile, of her earlier albums. She abandoned that persona, beginning with "Janet". Nipplegate became the metaphor for what went wrong: graphic sexuality and excess. It was just too polarizing.

Posted at 12:01PM on Nov 7th 2008 by Danny

10. I went to her show in ATL where LL did not show up. They had some local DJ step in for LL. That DJ rocked the house big time! The guy checking tickets told me that they sold like 3500 tickets for her show. Tickets were still on sale for ATL after she postponed her show. Her concert was ok. (I've seen her 4 times now) rating 6 outta 10. She didnt have any stage props like she's done in the past and copied most of her dance moves from her video. It was like watching video flashbacks, which I was not impressed at all. Damn her butt is bigggg now too. We saw Jermaine Dupree, Taylor Perry, Bow wow and Ciara in the special attention box. They kicked back and watched the show. I hope she gets her %%%% together soon. It's already been 7 years.

Rock on :)

Posted at 9:38AM on Nov 9th 2008 by Janet's concert in ATL

11. Can all of the Jackson's give it up already!! Their time is over. They would have been better off going down the same path as Elvis, Marilyn, and James Dean and expired long before their careers have. Now, you just have a bunch of senseless talent needlessly wasted!

Posted at 1:51PM on Nov 7th 2008 by deezeey

12. Please stop bringing her down. janet jackson and her brothers, are in the history books forever,they has true talent. i think janet should let jimmy jame and terry louis back on the seen. they new how to bring the best of her talent out. she was a supper talent when they were in the, picture.and i think she knows that. please janet get back with jimmy jame and terry . they will see the talent you really, have and bring it out in you peace justice.

Posted at 6:59PM on Nov 7th 2008 by justice

13. I heard last week on a Detroit radio station that LL Cool J bailed after tour management asked him to take a pay cut because of lighter than expected ticket sales.

Posted at 9:21PM on Nov 7th 2008 by wasted days and wasted nights

14. Damn, the Superbowl EFFED up Janet's career.... OH WELL, at least she made a gang of MONEY!!!!!

Posted at 12:00AM on Nov 9th 2008 by the truth about hollywood