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I ended up going to both shows. Had such a great time last night, and there were plenty of good seats available for tonight - earlier start/finish times on a Sunday helped make the decision, as well as living close to the venue.

WHAT A BLAST. So shocked how much of it was live (although she didn’t have any backing singers so that was all pre-recorded). Just an absolute pro, and SO many hits, most of them only got about 2 minutes each.
 
Ellie said:
Yes, just a lot of synths involved. Uploaded Scream/Black Cat from tonight.

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She's really going for it vocally! Much as I'm irritated by her recent comments I'm sort of glad she's proved her doubters, who largely expected this to be a mime fest, wrong
 
I notice it was two weeks out from the rest of the tour - was it moved for some reason?

Clearly she couldn't be arsed hanging around just to play a 1/3 full venue. :D
 
Maybe Tito’s funeral? It hadn’t even been organised when I asked about it last week. it was a bit weird scheduling to go back and forth between mainland Europe and UK.
 
PercyPig said:
Shame about Glasgow. Was hoping for a £20 ticket sell off (but obv Janet wasn’t)
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For the Sunday show in London where they had quite a lot of decent seats available last minute, I eavesdropped on the other people in my row and they appeared to be people in the event security industry, getting comps from their friends.
 
I really should’ve gone on Sunday when there was lots of tickets available
 
She really played everything* albeit largely in truncated form.

What a catalogue. The first two or three songs being fairly obscure worried me a bit but it quickly became a wall-to-wall hits fest.

*excluding Made For Now :(
 
I love hearing all this. It seems like she's found her spark again?

Cuz if even VoR is praising her, then it's as we suspected from the beginning: the tour IS the promo!
 
Only 4 shows cancelled this tour :o

Her biggest cancellations were for the pregnancy (Unbreakable Tour) and All For You (9-11 related)
 
One of my favourite moments was when she barked out “Now I know that EVERYBODY HERE TONIGHT knows this next song…” before launching into 1990 #34 hit Love Will Never Do Without You. :D
 
Tonight was so fun!! My friend works at the arena and told me the audience tonight was 8000 (capacity is 23000) so I thought was going to feel empty… but he was either just wrong or a last minute giveaway happened because it was somewhat full.

She impressed me so much, I’m really glad I went.
 
VoR said:
One of my favourite moments was when she barked out “Now I know that EVERYBODY HERE TONIGHT knows this next song…” before launching into 1990 #34 hit Love Will Never Do Without You. :D
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Damn that only got to 34 :o
 
Almost all of the RN1814 singles flopped or underperformed in the UK, no? Quite surprising since all seven singles went top 5 in the US.
 
POP! said:
Almost all of the RN1814 singles flopped or underperformed in the UK, no? Quite surprising since all seven singles went top 5 in the US.
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Singles 3-6 were all top 20 with Black Cat peaking highest at #15 back in the days when top 20 meant a bit more but yeah there was no big hit.

However, the album reached #4 and spent 40+ weeks on the chart so she maintained a presence for sure.
 
POP! said:
Almost all of the RN1814 singles flopped or underperformed in the UK, no? Quite surprising since all seven singles went top 5 in the US.
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#22 Miss You Much
#23 Rhythm Nation
#20 Come Back To Me
#17 Escapade
#20 Alright
#15 Black Cat
#34 Love Will Never Do (Without You)

Utterly absurd, especially those first two. I can only assume she didn't promote them here much/at all.
 
I was only into mainstream music up until about 1997 and I have to say Janet Jackson was just not public consciousness in this country until "Together Again". I recall 5 minutes with "What Have You Done For Me Lately" and then again with "That's The Way Love Goes" but she wasn't there with the other icons in the UK. I was huge into Whitney and Madonna and MJ and Prince and George and then later Mariah. It's only going back and pieceing together the wider pop music of the 80s and 90s and seeing how artists fare in the US and worldwide you realise how big Janet actually was. The Rhythm Nation album was almost an entire (and wonderful) discovery for me about 10 years ago. I was familiar with the songs, sure, but they weren't that embedded and it was like discovering her music properly for the first time. The same for Control as well beyond the big 3 songs. I loved the janet album but I largely just grouped it in with Toni, TLC and the other R&B ladies at the time, I had no idea how massive that album was in America.
 
Didn't she also only get 2 singles from janet in the UK, whereas they released about 7 in the US? I might be remembering that wrong however.
 
VoR said:
#22 Miss You Much
#23 Rhythm Nation
#20 Come Back To Me
#17 Escapade
#20 Alright
#15 Black Cat
#34 Love Will Never Do (Without You)

Utterly absurd, especially those first two. I can only assume she didn't promote them here much/at all.
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Wow I guess all that LOCAL STAR talk on Dotmusic was true
 
funky said:
Didn't she also only get 2 singles from janet in the UK, whereas they released about 7 in the US? I might be remembering that wrong however.
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According to Wikipedia, the UK got 8 singles on the chart from that album

Throb didn’t get released but got a promo 12’’
 
So it is and three of them top ten! To be fair Whoops Now and Again were both quite big hits here, those I do remember in the charts. The other 3 I don't remember being singles.
 
I think I'm getting mixed up with the The Velvet Rope in the US, which inexplicably only got 2 singles (I assume the others were served to radio only which was quite a common practice in the late 90s IIRC)
 
funky said:
I think I'm getting mixed up with the The Velvet Rope in the US, which inexplicably only got 2 singles (I assume the others were served to radio only which was quite a common practice in the late 90s IIRC)
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Yes they were trying to push album sales. Although not releasing the lead GTIG was just odd. "Go Deep" was popular but probably would've broken her top ten streak a bit earlier if chart eligible. "Every Time" was eligible near the tail end of its run and peaked at #25 (Bubbling Under).
 
I have zero interest in Janet Jackson live in 2024 (tho I'm glad that her tour seems to be doing well, and I hope she's refraining from discussing others' ethnic origins during her breaks from mumbling), but I just need to say that it is CRIMINAL how "Rhythm Nation" was not a multi-week global chart-topper. #23 in the UK my ass, idiot Brits!!!
 
VoR said:
#22 Miss You Much
#23 Rhythm Nation
#20 Come Back To Me
#17 Escapade
#20 Alright
#15 Black Cat
#34 Love Will Never Do (Without You)

Utterly absurd, especially those first two. I can only assume she didn't promote them here much/at all.
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The weird thing is that I remember them, despite being 7-8 years old. I was far too young for Control and have no memory of that era at all (same for Madonna as Like a Prayer was my first introduction) but for RN1814 I remember the videos being on TOTP and The Chart Show quite a lot. I couldn’t say I remember all that many other “hits” from the time that were only just scraping the Top 20.
 
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