Janet Jackson on "David Letterman"

[AM Matt]

David Letterman welcomes Janet Jackson (wearing a maroon red prom dress) & singer John Mayer. Also Biff Henderson gets knee surgery. For more go to: www.cbs.com Matt Clark Sanford, MI

 

[AM Matt]

Better yet, go to: www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow for information!! Matt Clark Sanford, MI

 

[AM Matt]

I watched the show but somehow Biff Henderson's knee surgery was cut off though. They might have show the segment prior to the taping. The show was rated TV PG. Matt Clark Sanford, MI

 

[DAN BOLTON]

Nobody ever wore a dress like that to my prom...the best part of the show was the opening; an embarrassed Janet being asked by Dave in the elevator, "How's Tito?"

Nice damage control by CBS, though...



Dan

 

[jfiedler17]

Personally, I didn't think this helped her at all. I'm not sure that ANYBODY believes that the Super Bowl fiasco wasn't intentional, but it certainly didn't help her credibility to wear such a blatantly revealing outfit during the show. (And that was an insanely revealing dress, too.) Not that I'm necessarily complaining , but I thought it came off looking pretty hypocritical. So she's not especially modest. At least ADMIT you're not especially modest. It kinda bugs me to see performers like Britney or Janet who cultivate such a sexed-up media image and then give interviews where they try to deny that they're any more sexed up than, say, Tracy Chapman or Suzanne Vega. You know what I mean? Anyone else feel the same?
I thought Dave did a good job, though! What could have been a horribly combustible interview, he really did a good job of keeping light and comical. Not an especially hard-hitting or revealing interview, but definitely a hysterical one!

Jeff F.
... who really dug John Mayer's performance of "Clarity" afterwards ...

 

[Mike Blakesley]

FYI: The "Biff's Knee Surgery" segment was aired last week. (It was on the show that Tom Hanks guested on. Hope they re-run it because I freakin' missed it.)

 

[jfiedler17]

I'm really surprised how much bad reception her new CD's getting from the critics! (Which, incidentally, I just read on Billboard.com had to settle for a #2 debut behind Usher's newest, her first CD since "Rhythm Nation" to not debut at #1). I haven't come across too many positive reviews so far.
Even Rolling Stone (which makes no attempts whatsoever anymore to mask their hatred of all things conservative; I can't remember the last issue I picked up that DIDN'T have a we-hate-Bush article in it) was turned off by the explicit content of the CD! I can't remember the last time I heard the magazine COMPLAIN about a CD being sexually-explicit!
Has anyone here heard the CD yet? What do you think of it? I'm curious to know!

Jeff F.
NP: Stray Cats "I Won't Stand in Your Way (A Cappella Version)" (I haven't been able to get it out of my head for 2 days now!)

 

[Mike Blakesley]

I don't think RS was turned off by the sexuality. They (and most critics) were turned off by the lack of emotion on the record, which IMHO has been the problem with most of her records. All computer-enhanced, no feeling. And too much filler.

 

[jfiedler17]

Really? Maybe I have my reviews confused ...
I read a review (that I thought was Rolling Stone, but maybe I'm wrong) that chewed the CD out for being so blunt and explicit in its sexuality that it comes off as UNsexy (the review tagged "Damita Jo" as "the unsexiest sexy album ever made.) Did anybody else read this review? Which mag was this in?

 

[Mike Blakesley]

That's the one. "Unsexiest sexy" in my book means, it has no emotion, only the audio equivalent of soft porn. (I read it fairly quickly but that was my take on it.)