d to nearly two million delighted fans and raised, through a percentage of ticket sales, nearly $400,000 for the cities in schools program.With unprecedented success like that, Twelve Top Five singles from two albums of work, most artists might be forgiven for going right back to what works and making more of the same music for a public that is clearly hungry for it. But not Janet…Rather than follow up immediately on the success of the Rhythm Nation 1814 album and tour, Janet decided to do something different. She took a starring role in the film Poetic Justice. That shouldn't be a surprise from a woman who says of herself, "What interests me most is trying to do things that haven't been done before." And this project was too right to pass up. In a role actually written for her by award-winning director of Boyz in the hood, John Singleton, a childhood friend, Janet plays the starring role she found to be very close to home. Janet credits her experience in that role with helping her to further reveal herself in her work. She says the character she portrayed, "I Found we had a lot in common. No matter how wealthy you are and no matter how poor you are, love is love and pain is pain. Its still the same feeling.And so came janet.,her most personal most sexual album. "This time I wanted to make an album that focused on love and all its ups and downs." janet., the album and tour, brought together influences from such diverse artist as Antonio Gaudi, a 19th Century Spanish architect, opera diva Kathleen battle and rapper Chuck D from Public Enemy. janet. is an exquisite fifty minuet melting pot that is as much a statement of who Janet is now as much as a statement of what the world could be-a tightly knit harmony uniting new and old, funky, and classic, sexy and smart, techno and soul to make something that defies categories-just as Janet does.This past Saturday (Oct.10th) I attended Janet Jackson's latest tour titled "The Velvet Rope" w...
