The latest photos of Janet!
Janet’s brand new album is out today in the UK and two versions are available to buy. The deluxe edition comes with a glossy cover and a hardback booklet featuring full lyrics and amazing photos. The accompanying DVD features footage from Janet’s recent photoshoots, recording the album, auditioning the dancers and from the set of the Call On Me video. Check out some photos and screen captures below.
Janet appears on the cover of the November issue of King Magazine. Website ConcreteLoop got the first sneak peak.
Promotional posters for 20 Y.O. have started to appear at several stations on London’s public transport system. In particular, there are several posters at underground stations across London’s tube network. The poster to the left can currently be seen at London Bridge station.
Janet was in the company of a whole host of celebrities last night at beau’s Jermaine Dupri‘s birthday bash in Los Angeles last night. Jermaine, now 34, was joined by Quincy Jones, Jimmy Jam, Lil’ John, Gabrielle Union, Penelope Cruz and video director Dave Meyers.
A new e-card has been released by Virgin Records to mark the release of Janet’s new album 20 Y.O. The e-card also includes the four winning covers from the “Design Me” competition which can be seen below. There’s also a brand new promotional photo.
Janet appears on the cover of this month’s Vanity Fair magazine in Italy. The photo shoot shows Janet in yet another style wearing business outfits. Check out the stunning photos below taken by acclaimed photographer Ruven Afanador.
Janet appears on the cover of the upcoming Giant magazine, an entertainment magazine in the US. In the accompanying interview, Janet talks about several tracks from her album including With U and Love2Love which she’s claimed was inspired by brother Michael. The photos, taken by Alexei Hay, are all black and white. The interview is conducted by Scott Poulson-Bryant.
[special thanks to ***Hollywood*** from the JF forum]
Janet met several fans at the recent B96 FM listening party, photos of which can now be seen online. The party which was on Thursday in Chicago took place just a few hours after Janet’s recorded appearance on Oprah.
Janet appears in the October 2006 of FHM Magazine. On their website they have posted photos from the shoot which can be seen below as well as a behind the scenes video and excerpts from the interview. Subscribe Now.
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New album. New body. Same burning desire. “This is the one that always wants to pop out,” says Janet Jackson of the most famous right breast in the world. “Look, it’s trying to pop out of my bra right now!” And with that, the woman we’ve watched grow from America’s Little Sister to international sex bomb dips into her black bra and adjusts the frisky bosom that forever seared the term “wardrobe malfunction” into the lexicon.
“Sometimes, I really don’t understand America,” the youngest Jackson sighs of her post–Super Bowl brouhaha. “We’re so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to sex. In other places, the body is seen as a beautiful thing God created.” Certainly, he did good work when it comes to Ms. Jackson. With her new album 20 Y.O., the 5-foot-4 singer is again sporting both her trademark six-pack and mile-wide smile—“A lot fits in that mouth,” she confesses—after gaining and losing 60 pounds in the past year for a film role that didn’t pan out. She’s also very happy with her producer boyfriend, hip-hop titan Jermaine Dupri.
“He makes me feel like a woman,” Janet says of Dupri, who is seven years younger than the 40-but-feeling-20 star. “I would have his child. He lets me be me.”
Which, it turns out, is a funny, forthright woman who’s both good as gold and bad to the bone. When Janet kicks off her international tour in support of her album next spring, fans can again look forward to more of the singer’s signature interactive entertainment. At every concert, Janet brings one lucky male fan on stage for a personal pole dance. And that, she confesses, is her favorite part of the show.
“Hey, I’m just doing my job,” she says with a grin. “And it’s a fun job to do.”
Gentlemen, Janet is back.
Do you ever do that “job” for your man, Janet?
When they ask, you give them what they want. They’re asking you; they could easily be asking someone else. So, yes, he’s asked me before and I’ve given.Exactly how nasty is Ms. Jackson? How much do you need it?
Honestly? I need it as much as I can get it. I know women are usually saying they have a headache because their guy wants it too much, but not me. The other day I was asked, “Don’t you feel that you’re making it difficult on women by saying stuff like that?” And I’m like, “I’m just talking about how I am.” Before now, I had never been in a relationship where the guy is as eager as I am. Until Jermaine came into my life, it was always the guy who was saying, “Not tonight, I’ve got a headache.”So, to quote lyrics from your earlier work, you want it “early in the mornin’.”
And “late in the evenin’.”You also want it “any time”?
And “any place.Did you feel that way when you were recently more full-figured?
Jermaine made me feel that way. He’d kiss me and say, “It needs love too.”Your bosom must have inflated a bit.
Jermaine would call me Double D. I’d say, “I’m not a double D! I refuse to go up a bra size!” So I squeezed into a C.And now you’re ripped. Look at those abs of yours.
You know, I didn’t set out for that to happen; I was just working out and got these incredibly strong abs. Genetics, I guess. But then people became all, like, “Where are those abs, Janet? Show us!” In clubs, if I’m wearing a crop-top, girls will come up, put their hands on me and rub my stomach. Seriously! I’m like, “Are you flirting with me right now?”Maybe. Do guys do it too?
Yes. And sometimes I’ll feel somebody grab my ass. And they don’t just grab it softly—they grab it.
Janet appears in the upcoming W Magazine in a stunning Michael Thompson photo shoot. Here is a large excerpt from the article by Jenny Comita as well as photos from the magazine. Subscribe now to W Magazine to ensure you get Janet’s issue delivered straight to your door which includes the full article and more photos.
Janet Jackson arrives at New York’s Rosa Mexicano restaurant in a pair of low-rise jeans, a cocked newsboy cap and a clingy cotton top with the words I ♥ MY PEOPLE printed across her now infamous breasts. The T-shirt doesn’t lie. For her lunchtime interview in a private upstairs room, Jackson’s beloved people—in the showbiz sense of “have your people call my people”—surround her. A publicist is within spitting distance, listening to every word. Security guards and a man whose laptop is loaded with songs from her soon-to-be-released album enjoy their guacamole nearby. An hour prior to the meeting, it’s made clear that J.D., as her friends call her, won’t talk about certain things: her beleaguered brother Michael, her ex-husband René Elizondo and anything related to the exposure of her bejeweled nipple at Super Bowl XXXVIII. (That last one is a legal matter, her publicist points out: Two and a half years later, the court battle between CBS and the FCC over fines for the incident continues to rage.)
Such stipulations are hardly a shock. Decades of nearly back-to-back scandal have turned the Jacksons into a tight-lipped crew. And while Janet hasn’t gone to the wacko lengths that her most famous brother has—shrouding children in blankets and hiding out in Bahrain—this is a woman who kept her last marriage (to the now unmentionable Elizondo) secret for eight years. Still, there are certain seemingly personal subjects that Jackson is more than happy to blather on about. Get her started on the topic of her love match with Jermaine Dupri, for example, and she’ll spew forth with a self-help-speak-peppered gush worthy of an eHarmony commercial.
“The one thing I’ve wanted—even more so than music and acting—is love,” she says breathily, extralong false lashes fluttering around her big Bambi eyes. “And I just thought it wasn’t going to happen for me. You know, some girls just go through life, and they can’t get it right—never marrying, never having kids. And I thought that was me. I had honestly accepted it, talked to God about it and thought that was going to be my life.” It had gotten to the point that many of her male friends were offering themselves up as sperm donors, should she want to go the single-mother route. “I thought, How sweet of them,” she says. “I had a lot of options.”
But as these things tend to go, says Jackson, as soon as she made peace with her lack of a soulmate, Prince Charming arrived in the form of Dupri, a seven-years-younger music producer who is now president of urban music at Virgin Records. The couple, who were just friends for years before dating, first met in 1991, when Dupri came backstage at a Rhythm Nation show. They took things to the next level in 2000, while vacationing together on the posh Caribbean island of Mustique. “I knew for sure when he told me some of his deepest secrets—not just one thing, a few things,” she says. “And my jaw dropped because they were the exact same secrets that I had, and I’d only spoken about them with God!” (Curiously, despite her many mentions of a higher power, Jackson, who was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, maintains that she’s “not a religious person. Organized religion is just not for me, at least not right now in my life.”)
