Janet Jackson aka Ms. Jackson (if you’re nasty) is looking smoking hot on the cover of the January 2008 issue of Hong Kong’s Prestige Magazine.
Here are some excerpts from Ms. Jackson’s interview with the prestigious publication:
You’ve moved to Island Records and you’re working on your new album with your boyfriend, Jermaine Dupri. Since you and Jermaine live together and work together, is it difficult?
No, from my perspective it’s not. But you’d have to ask him for his perspective, if I’m difficult [laughs] – I don’t think I am! I think there’s such a thing as being a team player with whatever it is you’re doing, and granted it’s your career, so you should have a final say, but still it’s about a team effort and you could never do it alone. But if there is something that we both feel differently about, it just should really be talked about and that’s the way we’ve always done it. Except this time around I see Usher and Mariah [Carey] coming out of the studio and I say, “Okay, wait, aren’t you supposed to be working on my stuff? We’re supposed to be doing our stuff together.” And he goes, “Well yeah,” and I’m like, “Why are they here, don’t I come before them when it’s time for the album to be released?” Not because I’m his girlfriend [laughs], but for the release of the album. Mine has to be released first, so doesn’t it make sense to get me out of the way first? But it’s all good.Will you do a big world tour when your album is released?
Yeah. I was actually supposed to tour with the last album, but we didn’t because I was actually in Atlanta and Island asked me if I would consider not going on tour, start the new album and then go on tour.When a platinum hit is born, do you just know it?
You can hear it. You can hear it because it has all the right elements after you’ve sung it; you can hear it. But to the magnitude it will be, you don’t. If it will spend one week at number one or six weeks at number one, you just don’t know. You can have all the marketing in the world and all the publicity in the world, but if the music isn’t right, then you have nothing.Have you been surprised by a song that hits it big or isn’t as big as you thought it was going to be?
No, not really. When I really think that a song is going to be successful, for the most part it is. I thought “Together Again” would be successful, but to the magnitude that it was, that I didn’t know. There’ve been a couple of those instances. Sweet surprises.Do you ever listen to your own music?
The only time I listen to my music is when we have to put a tour together. Isn’t that crazy? It’s so funny because I was just speaking to someone the other night and he said that his wife was pregnant and they wanted to thank me and I said, “Why are you thanking me?” And he said, “Because the baby was conceived because . . .” of me! You don’t know how much I get that. I get that so often, it’s so funny. People are listening to my music having children and I don’t listen to my own music and I don’t have any kids [laughs] so maybe I should listen to my music! People walk up to me and introduce me to their daughters and say she was conceived because they were listening to me. They’ll tell me what album. It’ll be The Velvet Rope or the Janet album, more so than the others. It’s so weird. I’ve always called it baby-making music. You know, let’s do a baby-making song.
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