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Janet Jackson stuns London
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Has Janet Jackson been kept in cryogenic suspension since the nineties?
Being a member of the world’s most dysfunctional showbusiness family, one has to consider all possibilities for her time-defying return to the London stage.
At the end of a rapturously received set, the-45-year old breathlessly announced that it has been 13 years since she last performed in the UK, and 27 years since she appeared at the Royal Albert Hall, gasping “I feel so old!”, possibly in an attempt to make her audience feel less self-conscious about their own fading youth. The truth is, Jackson looks and sounds pretty much exactly the same as she has looked and sounded for most of her adult career.
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The mood throughout is of mutual affection. She seems happy to be here and the audience are certainly happy to have her. There are huge cheers too for a posthumous appearance by her more famous brother, conjured up for a virtual duet of their single Scream, with Janet singing along to Michael’s video image. In the hardworking Jackson family, not even death can stop the show.
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THERE'S SOMETHING about London's Royal Albert Hall that makes a show feel intimate, despite the prestigious venue packing in a crowd of over 5,000.
So with Janet Jackson regularly turning to different sections of her crowd as she sang "If I was your woman, the things I'd do to you" (from her 1993 hit If), it's quite possible that each audience member in the area she was looking, could've thought the star was singing directly to them.
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