Billboard Magazine has released interview excerpts of this years ICON Award recipient with the Legendary Janet Jackson! Writer David Ritz secured the interview - her first one in several years speaks on upcoming New Music, Baby Eissa, Motherhood, Industry Artists & Her 'Inner Peace!' The brand sit-down which in which he meet with Janet across several dates brings us a fresh new perspective on what the Queen of Pop has in store NEXT! Janet also shoot a fierce photo shoot with her #JTribe Dancers!
Also check out the VIDEO of the Behind-The-Scenes of the photo shoot below!
Interview excerpts are via Billboard.com:
Eleven studio albums: six in the 20th century, five in the 21st and all beginning at age 16. Let’s go back to the very beginning, when your first two records -- 1982’s Janet Jackson and 1984’s Dream Street -- were released.
"Excitement was in the air. Music was always my heart, and now I was getting to sing my heart out. The songs were good, but they weren’t me. [She only began co-writing most of her songs on Control.] That was a little confusing. I knew I had something to say, I knew I had to assert myself. I also knew I had to go through the painful process of what my brothers had gone through. I had to thank my father for his help and then move on. I had to assert myself."
And take control.
"Control was undoubtedly the break-through. But I think the concept is sometimes misunderstood. I’m a believer. I know that God has absolute control. I’ve never wavered in that belief. I don’t mean I don’t get controlling -- most artists do. But I also know that turning myself into a control freak goes against my character. I’m much more a collaborator than a controller. So I saw control, even as a 20-year-old, in modest and limited ways. For example, I agreed to be produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. That was critical because they were not controlling. They let me be me. They encouraged me to tell my story, express my attitudes and step forward with my convictions. They encouraged me to write. I also had the control to select choreographers and video directors who could channel -- and help me shape -- my own dance moves, turning them into visual poetry. I didn’t control those wonderfully creative people, and they didn’t control me. It was more about molding fruitful partnerships. And based on those partnerships and the success of Control, I could move on and assert myself even more boldly."
Talking about pride -- early on, you were embraced by the gay pride movement.
"It’s a loving, all-embracing community that has always inspired me. I don’t often listen to my own work, but when I go back to [1997’s] Velvet Rope, I put on “Together Again” and remember the friends I lost to AIDS. It was important to me to honor them not mournfully but joyously in a celebratory song. Their spirit did so much to bolster mine. Sometimes when people talk about Velvet Rope, they call it my edgiest or sexiest record. Yet the heart of the record is not about sex at all. It’s about how, in defiance of death, we will all be “together again.” It’s an anthem to undying love.
The other highlight of Velvet Rope was working with Q-Tip, another master. I had long loved A Tribe Called Quest. Then, on “Got Til It’s Gone,” when we were able to combine Tip with the sublime Joni Mitchell, I was in heaven."
Tell me about singing with Luther Vandross. Your duet, “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” was included in your retrospective album Design of a Decade: 1986-1996.
"Total treat. Luther’s place in the pantheon of soul crooners is secure. You have to go back to Sam Cooke to find a singer with Luther’s sensitivity and finesse. I adore his voice. Such flexibility. Perfect pitch. Perfect enunciation. A singer’s singer. I was also glad to do a dance song, and Luther was gracious enough to adapt to my rhythmic style. Because of his genius, it came off perfectly. Trends will come and go, but Luther’s artistry will endure forever."
On your most recent album, 2015’s Unbreakable, “No Sleeep” was the single. It has a romantic tinge, but I’m wondering whether the idea came about because, as a new mom, a waking infant kept you up all night.
[Laughs.] "I wrote that story over Jimmy and Terry’s track before the baby was born! So obviously, it wasn’t anything I was going through. You could say, though, that I might have been anticipating sleepless nights. I’d also add that sleepless nights, no matter how tiring, are some of the times that I do my best writing."
Talk about the music you’re writing now.
"I wish I could. I’m not trying to avoid the question and be secretive, but the truth is that I don’t try to analyze the creative process while it’s still ongoing. I’m very intuitive about writing. Anything can inspire me. This morning, I saw this lovely elderly Japanese woman walking down the streets of Hollywood wearing an adorable bonnet with bright red flowers. She might be a song. I remembered an especially painful chapter in my early life last night before going to bed. That might be a song. I woke up this morning and heard a bird chirping in a rhythm that captivated my heart. Maybe that will turn into a new groove. Like everyone else, my feelings are fluid. My ideas are fleeting. I like to keep it that way. I can’t decide in advance what a song or an album concept will be. I have to let those songs and concepts come to me rather than chase them down.
I’m glad I’m not methodical or self-conscious as a writer. It’s important that I maintain a let-it-happen-when-it-happens approach. I don’t want to strain or stress. I want to be a channel for whatever images and emotions are running through my imagination. Spontaneity is so important to me. It allows for surprise, and, for me, surprise is what breaks up the boredom of daily life. When I finally get to the music that genuinely expresses what I’m experiencing in the moment, I feel free. Music does that for me. Its healing properties are extraordinary."
You mentioned younger artists. Which ones impress you the most?
"Daniel Caesar is proving that romantic R&B is alive and well. Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole are proving that brilliantly original storytelling is one of hip-hop’s great gifts to world culture. SZA is proving that young women still possess extraordinary vocal skills and style.
I also have a special place in my heart for Bruno Mars. Bruno was really the first music my son responded to. During and after his birth, I comforted myself with Brazilian jazz, music that always relaxes me. Then when the baby began crawling, Bruno was breaking out big and on the radio all the time. That delighted both of us. Bruno is a throwback to the days when the greatest artists could do it all: write, sing, dance, produce."
So here you are, a single mom of 52, about to run into the studio, make new music, learn new dance moves and then embark on a grueling tour. What is the source of your drive?
"The drive is in my DNA. I couldn’t lose it if I wanted to, and I don’t. Motivation is something I treasure. Besides, for all its difficulties, this is the life I love. I’m surrounded with a team of dancers, singers and musicians I love. I’m supported by fans that have stuck by me through thick and thin. They mean the world to me. Now more than ever, performing, whether in the studio or onstage, brings me a satisfaction I find nowhere else.
Like millions of other women, I’ve struggled with low self-esteem my whole life. I’m doing better in that regard. My inclination toward harsh self-criticism and even self-negation has dramatically eased up. I believe in all the different methods of help -- smart psychology, vigorous exercise and sincere spirituality.
God is the greatest healer of all and the most potent force in the universe. In my world, though, God is so often expressed through music, and it’s music that beats back the negative forces. It’s music that drowns out those voices that say I’m not enough. It’s music, and its divine source, that gifts me with the knowledge that harmony is still possible.
And while we’re talking about positivity, let me also say that my son, even in his short 17 months on the planet, has showed me that love, no matter how deeply you believe you have experienced that emotion, can always go deeper. Love is limitless. And for someone like me, raised in show business where self-concern is always a priority, how fortunate I am now to be concerned, first and foremost, with the welfare of someone else. Day after day and night after night, holding my baby in my arms, I am at peace. I am blessed. I feel bliss. In those moments, all is right with the world."
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Check out Janet Jackson's 'Unbreakable' Billboard Chart Accolades below:
Janet Jackson's The State Of The World Tour is BACK! She will hit the road this summer in the U.S. (again) and continue her sold-out shows - bringing her list of hit tracks and iconic choreography! Janet will also encase all 4 upcoming musical festival shows within this now second leg of the UN-comparable #SOTW Tour! .
Janet Jackson will hit the stage for the Essence Festival on July 8th which sets #SOTW Tour in motion! Tickets go on sale Friday, April 27th at 10am via her website (more details below)! Janet ALWAYS PROVES to be the EMPRESS OF SNAP BACK...and clearly the snatched the 'edges' from everyone's tender headed-scalps (leaving the 'white part' of the root exposed) the first time around and is SURE to do so AGAIN!!!
Janet is set for an extremely busy Summer with performances at the following music festivals across the country:
Essence Festival 2018 is presented by Coca-Cola and kicks off July 5 - 8, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana!
Headlining performers include Superstar Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, 112, Fantasia, Miguel, XScape, The Roots, H.E.R & many more!
The Panorama Festival 2018 presented by GoldenVoice is set to jump off on July 27-29th, 2018 at Randall's Island Park in New York City!
Headliner performers include Superstar Janet Jackson, The Weeknd, The Killers, Gucci Mane, Cardi B, Migos, Jhené Aiko, SZA, Sabrina Claudio & many, many more!
The FYF Festival 2018 presented by GoldenVoice is set to jump off on July 21-22, 2018 at Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California!
Headliner performer Superstar Janet Jackson leads the very long is of talented performers for ! Those include: Florence + The Machine, Future, My Bloody Valentine, Against All Logic, The Internet, The XX, Kali Uchis & many, many more!The Outside Lands Festival 2018 which is set to jump off on August 10-12, 2018 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California!
Janet leads the packed roster and continues to bring heat to the Calif landscape! Those include: The Weeknd, Florence + The Machine, Future, N.E.R.D, Beck, Carly Rae Jepsen, Jessie Ware, James Blake, The Internet & many, many more!
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