Just 20 years ago, she would've had one of the largest fan bases on this site, comparable to that of Madonna and Mariah but she doesn't get an ounce of respect here outside of the members who are her fans.
Janet Jackson is one of the top 10 best selling female artists of all time, she's scored 10 #1 hits, 25+ top 10 hits and is one of the most successful musicians of her generation.
Janet has IMPACT, and yes its WW. In fact by the late 90's/early 2000's most of the younger musicians who specialized in dance cited her as an influence, Britney, Usher, NSYNC, DC etc.
She also is a definitive artist of New Jack Swing as with her Jam and Lewis were able to reach the highest highs of success with 'Control' and the iconic/Legendary RN1814
Janet Jackson is legendary, end of, just because your knowledge of music history only goes as far back as Gaga's TFM and 'I Kissd A girl' doesn't make every artists from before your time irrelevant. How about instead of asking dumb questions just to throw shade you read up a bit and educate yourself on the icons of yesteryear.
Janet Jackson is legendary, end of, just because your knowledge of music history only goes as far back as Gaga's TFM and 'I Kissd A girl' doesn't make every artists from before your time irrelevant. How about instead of asking dumb questions just to throw shade you read up a bit and educate yourself on the icons of yesteryear.
just because your knowledge of music history only goes as far back as Gaga's TFM and 'I Kissd A girl' doesn't make every artists from before your time irrelevant.
It's weird how she was clearly so huge back in the day but so few young people have heard of her... I mean considering this is a gay pop music forum yet such a high proportion of members hadn't heard of her/didn't know any of her songs before joining ATRL.