Month: February 2008

Janet attended a party last night held by Entertainment Weekly to toast Antonio “LA” Reid at STK LA (a newly opened steakhouse) in West Hollywood, California.

A new interview with Janet is in today’s British broadsheet The Observer supplement The Observer Magazine. Entitled “I’ve finished talking about Michael. I’ve done it all my career”, Elizabeth Day talks to Janet who admits “You know, I don’t really sing that much. I really don’t. To be a singer, you’re supposed to always constantly be singing, and I’m one that doesn’t.”

Read the full article below.

There are few things in this world more embarrassing than being forced to dance in your chair. This realisation comes to me on a drizzly morning in Manhattan when I find myself in a roomful of earnest music journalists and record executives being played seven tracks from the new Janet Jackson album. We are seated in a large corner office at Island Def Jam Records, surrounded by orchids and ornamental cigar boxes. As each new song is pumped out at ear-splitting volume, a strange competitiveness sets in as to who can appear most in tune with the music.

An internet reporter from France performs a number of semi-epileptic contortions in time with the thumping bass. Two girls from the record company, each holding a giant Starbucks coffee, wiggle as if their promotions depend on it. I am trying to execute a strange gyration in a cream leather armchair, my head jerking back and forth like a chicken pecking the ground for stray corn. It is reminiscent of uncomfortable school discos where girls and boys sit on opposite sides of the assembly hall desperately bopping from the waist upwards in an attempt to appear nonchalant yet devastatingly rhythmic.

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Janet attended at Clive Davis’ Grammy party last night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The reception and dinner saw Janet mingle with the likes of Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Fergie, Rodney Jerkins and Brits Natasha Bedingfield and Leona Lewis.

See over 70 photos from the event in our gallery now.

Janet attended boyfriend Jermaine Dupri’s pre-Grammy event in Hollywood last night. The party at the Central Hollywood Lounge is in advance of tomorrow’s 50th Annual Grammy Awards which are to be aired live on CBS in the United States and at 9pm on Monday Evening on ITV2 in the UK.

Janet put in a surprise appearance at LA clubnight Tigerheat at Arena last night with celebrity gossip columnist Perez Hilton. This is what he had to say about the event:

How do we say this delicately????

It’s JANET JACKSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When we told you yesterday that we had a surprise celebrity guest that we were taking with us to LA club Tigerheat, we undersold it a bit.

Janet’s not just a celebrity. She’s a fucking superstar!

We got to spend time with her and chat, and she does not disappoint.

She’s nice, sweet, normal, inspiring, professional and generous. Plus, she’s even prettier in real life, if that’s possible!

We got to listen to J’s entire new album, Discipline, and it’s everything you would have hoped for. She describes it as “classic Janet,” and it is that and more!

Janet went with us to visit the gays (and all our fabulous fierce females that came after we tipped you all off that a surprise was in store). Miz Jackson wanted to thank everyone for their support.

AND, she played four new tracks for the very lucky clubgoers!

They loved it, and they loved her.

The place went wild for Janet. It was truly awesome.

Thursday night was just one of those dreams come true!