2 posts tagged “janet jackson”

Ciara

Her. Well, I wanted to be Janet Jackson as a kid, and I never really lost my love for performing, even though I don't do it any more. But, after 5 years of jazz, tap and voice lessons, I'm rusty, but I'm still ready. :)

Did I dance as well? Hell yeah! Did I sing as well? Well, Janet is no Jennifer Hudson, let's face it, so that part was never hard. I had a bit of a Stacy Lattisaw thing going on.

So why'd I stop? 3 words: married with children.

Not that I don't love my kids, I love them like crazy - they are the best people I know, besides my mother.

Janet

But I have to confess, given the opportunity to go back - to not listen to my unsupportive ex-husband and just go for it, I'd go for it. I might not have been the next Janet Jackson, but at least I could say I didn't give up.

Meanwhile, I have a lot of local shows under my belt that I am still proud of.

Music is a mean but lovable mistress, I tell you, but I love her, even when she kicks me in the ass.

tiffany affair

I don't understand the hype that's going on with these girl group wannabes popping up all over the place. They all sound the same. All of them, including Danity Kane. I mean Candy Hill. Pussycat Dolls? Brick & Lace? Wait, that was Tiffany Affair. Whatever - same difference, really. Switch up the faces a little, and you have the same damn thing, and even though it may be the sound everyone loves (loves = has been listening to for way too long), that doesn't make it good, that makes it really old and boring. The first time this sort of thing was actually fresh and original was over 10 years ago, with Janet Jackson's "Control" album. The next was SWV, then TLC, and then Mary J Blige. Even the Spice Girls, who were annoying as hell, were at least different.

Right now, the only real female artists in the genre - at least, of the newer artists - are Corinne Bailey Rae and Amy Winehouse. And we're all aware of Angie Stone, India.Arie, and Alicia Keys. Christina Aguilera, whether you like her or not, has a voice most singers, aspiring or otherwise, would kill for. There are a number of others I won't mention - I'm sure you know actual talent when you hear it. Everything else seems to be a battle over who can wear the shortest skirt or tightest, teeniest top while shattering their vocal cords in a song written (obviously) for someone else over a beat that's way over-produced. As it stands now, half the so-called singers out there in the not-quite-R&B genre sound like the Chipettes on crack with laryngitis standing in a sandstorm with their mouths wide open. Or else they sound like these girls, which isn't really that much different.

Hopefully, people will eventually get it, and there will be something that's actually original out there to listen to. Until then, yeah, I'm over it, too.