BONUS: Janet Jackson Once Had 'Control' of the Charts
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🗓️ 10 October 2021
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But after the wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, Janet's reputation took a hit, and she's yet to receive the flowers she deserves.
In this episode of NPR's It's Been A Minute, host Sam Sanders wants to set the record straight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, consider this listeners, it's Aude Kornish, and today we have an episode from our friends |
| 0:04.3 | over at the It's Bin-A-Minute podcast. This year marks the 35th anniversary of Janet Jackson's |
| 0:10.4 | control, and that album was her first real commercial hit, and looking back helped to redefine a lot |
| 0:16.1 | of pop music. In the late 80s and 90s, Jackson was one of the biggest stars of our time, |
| 0:21.0 | right up there with Madonna, and yet Jackson isn't always given her due. |
| 0:24.8 | In this episode, host Sam Sanders explores why that is, and how she made the album control, |
| 0:32.4 | and of course about the incident that lasted all but a second that changed the course of her career. |
| 0:39.0 | All right folks, here we go. |
| 0:45.8 | What is your first Janet Jackson memory? |
| 0:49.2 | It's a wild thing to ask me, my first Janet Jackson memory, because Janet and I are like the same age. |
| 1:00.0 | This is Music Journalist Danielle Smith. |
| 1:02.7 | You know, it's a wonderful memory, so from my eighth birthday, my mother got me tickets to see |
| 1:09.6 | the Jackson 5 live in concert at the Circle Star Theater in St. Carlos, California. |
| 1:20.6 | And when we got to the Circle Star Theater, there was an opening act, and that opening act was |
| 1:28.4 | Randy Jackson and Janet Jackson. |
| 1:32.3 | Here's Janice and Randy, or Randy and Janet. |
| 1:35.3 | Wow, and she's at this point around your age, which is around eight. |
| 1:41.2 | Yeah, she was like seven or eight. |
| 1:42.4 | Yep, absolutely. |
| 1:43.1 | How was she in that opening act performance? |
| 1:46.4 | Oh, well, the thing is they weren't even singing. |
| 1:50.0 | They were like doing skits. |
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