
Hoping perhaps that 3’s the charm, Janet Jackson is rumored to be taking the marriage plunge again with rapper Jermaine Dupri. She reportedly has been requesting designers for bridal gown samples.
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Hoping perhaps that 3’s the charm, Janet Jackson is rumored to be taking the marriage plunge again with rapper Jermaine Dupri. She reportedly has been requesting designers for bridal gown samples.
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Janet Jackson gives an interview to a magazine called Prestige Hong Kong for their January issue in support of the release of “Discipline”, which will be Janet’s tenth studio album. The album is to be released February 26, 2008 and will be supported by a world tour. The new album is preceded by the lead single, the Rodney Jerkins produced, “Feedback”, whose music video has already been shot. Here are some excerpts from the interview:
There’s been talk of a Jacksons world tour. Will it happen?
I really don’t know. I hope it happens. I would love for it to happen. I’m probably [my brothers’] biggest fan. I think it would be great if they did. They’re so loved and definitely missed and there’s so much history there, musically speaking even, there’s so much that they have to give . . . there’s so much youth still there. I think about how Mick Jagger is 65 million years old, like a dinosaur or something, all of them [The Rolling Stones], and I look at my brothers and none of them look their age. Not that they’re old, they just still don’t look their age and it really trips me out. And I hope they do [stage a world tour]. They still love their music
Do the Jacksons still get together for family gatherings?
We didn’t this year and my nephew, bless his heart, said, “We’re not getting together this year and I’m really mad because it’s going to fall on my birthday so everyone was going to be there for my birthday!” Some of us don’t celebrate birthdays because we’re Jehovah’s Witnesses, but he was still going to pretend and be like, “This is a party for me!”
How did you and Jermaine meet?
We first met at my concert in 1990. He came backstage and said hello and I think I was married, or I got married right after, I don’t know, I can’t remember. We’d see each other here and there, we did a couple of remixes and stuff, and from those remixes we became friends. We really connected.
There are conflicting reports of Jermaine Dupri being your boyfriend, your fiancé or your husband.
We’re not married. I call him my boyfriend. Jermaine calls me his wife, I’ve heard him say that as well . . . But not yet. I don’t know if that will ever happen. Maybe, I really don’t know. It’s because, at least for myself, this space that we’re in I think is so nice. I feel like maybe marriage is a jinx for me. I’ve done it twice; I’m not trying to be Elizabeth Taylor and do it eight times. Where we are is good and we’re happy and there’s no drama. And plus, I think there’s something about having a spiritual connection where you don’t have to have a certificate to validate the love. So it’s all good – if you make those vows to one another and you know that you have a connection, that’s all you need. I really do think [marriage] is just a way for the government to keep tabs on everybody, I truly do. Now people think you’ve got to grow up and get married and have a family, you don’t have to do that if you don’t want that. Just because everyone else does that doesn’t mean you have to.
Where do you spend most of your time?
Right now I’ve been spending a lot of time in Atlanta because that’s where I’m recording the album, but it’s between LA, New York and Atlanta.
Where’s your favourite place to be?
I’ve got more than one. Somewhere on an island where the sand is white and the water is turquoise-y, aqua, and it’s nice and warm outside and there’s a beautiful breeze. I live for that. And Europe, I love Europe – and I live for Asia.
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.
I think many of us imagine the Jackson/Dupri household as an absolute love fest of music, singing and dancing. Is that the case?
There is always music flowing through. It’ll be about video games, it’ll be about things that we enjoy doing, doing together. But there’s still always music flowing and all types of music flowing through it.
What are your New Year resolutions for 2008?
This is awful, but I’m going to try and stop cursing as much. I know that sounds crazy. I didn’t used to curse, but when I did [the 1993 drama/romance film] Poetic Justice I had to curse so I was practicing my cursing and I haven’t stopped. It’s bad, I do it too much. It’s a bad habit. That and to become more environmentally friendly. I’ve already started with my little energy-saving light bulbs; I’ve been testing them out. And I was thinking about getting a hybrid but I love these big cars, I love trucks and stuff. I’m awful. Slowly but surely I’m getting there, slowly but surely so that it’s not too drastic. But yet [laughs] I try to do it fast enough so that I won’t be the cause of the end of the world! They’ll say, ”If she moved just a little quicker, this wouldn’t be happening right now!”
What’s an ideal day?
I enjoy keeping busy, actually. Both ways. I enjoy working, working, working until I’m really tired, really tired. Then I enjoy getting away for a couple weeks, being with my family, being with my friends and just chilling out. Nothing special, nothing big, just chilling out.
I love Europe. I’m down to go to Europe and Asia anytime, whether it’s to go to work or just to tag along. I love visiting countries and sightseeing and learning about the culture, the people, listening to the music and testing the food – I just enjoy stuff like that. Then once again, I love being on a nice warm beach, where there’s sand – the ocean just calms me. I love just being on a yacht and chilling out.
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