Producing the music video for this song was one of the worst experiences in Sharon Oreck's career. Behind the scenes, Janet's soon-to-be-fired manager Joe Jackson was trying to sabotage the project by making wild demands (which were last-ditch efforts to control his daughter). He angrily insisted Janet be insured for $1 million before she was allowed to be lowered onstage via trapeze. Meanwhile, the live footage was being recorded at the Grand Olympics Auditorium in Los Angeles in front of an audience who expected a free Janet Jackson concert, not "50 takes of Janet lip-synching," Oreck remembered. The crowd was disgruntled over that, but nearly rioted when white members of the audience, who had been scattered throughout, were slowly being moved to the front. An A&M label representative was able to calm everyone down when he explained the migration wasn't an act of segregation but a trick to make it look like the audience was more diverse. The video later won a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap Video, but Oreck called it her "worst nightmare."
If this happened now, it would've been a huge carreer-ruining scandal with how the media spins things
80% of the tracks had to be skipped after a few secs; they were truly boring. I must however correct my initial assessment in the sense that I actually think "Cry" sounds pretty nice.
80% of the tracks had to be skipped after a few secs; they were truly boring. I must however correct my initial assessment in the sense that I actually think "Cry" sounds pretty nice.
80% of the tracks had to be skipped after a few secs; they were truly boring. I must however correct my initial assessment in the sense that I actually think "Cry" sounds pretty nice.