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October 1, 1998

Cover Story: Sex, Sadness & the Triumph of Janet Jackson

After being told her album was a flop and her tour was a bust, she did what she knows best - she worked harder. A year in the life of Janet
September 16, 1993

Cover Story: Sexual Healing

Janet Jackson finds peace, inspiration and chart success through carnal knowledge

Discipline

Janet Jackson has abandoned the plastic R&B of 2006's 20 Y.O. for a sexier brand of digitized megapop. On her Def Jam debut, the beats are as crass and processed as Jackson's heavy breathing, so she sounds more like a sex droid than a blow-up doll, which is way hotter — for starters, sex...

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As the baby of pop music's best-known family, Janet Jackson could have spent her career in the shadow of her eight siblings, particularly brother Michael. Instead, with the help of some savvy creative and professional advisers outside the family, Janet established herself as the preeminent pop-funk diva of the late '80s and early '90s. Her wispy voice was a pale echo of Michael's, but on Janet's a...

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