Going Bust?; Damita Jo Ought to Have Been Janet Jackson's Big Comeback Album, Says Leon Mcdermott, but After That Incident at the Super Bowl Will America Forgive Her?

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Look at Janet Jackson's life from a certain angle, and it's a list of record-breaking statistics. In 1989, she scored seven top- 10 hits from one album, Rhythm Nation 1814, beating her brother Michael's record of six. In 1991, she signed a $32 million deal with Virgin Records, at the time the biggest deal in industry history. And two months ago, her infamous "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl's half-time show became the most searched for event in the history of the internet.

Look at Jackson's life from another angle, and she's at a crucial stage in her career. Her million-selling albums in the 1980s helped invent contemporary R&B through Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis's muscular, lean production; the sinuous grooves threaded through 1986's Control and 1989's Rhythm Nation 1814 are the foundation upon which today's hot shot producers and singers rely.

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Going Bust?; Damita Jo Ought to Have Been Janet Jackson's Big Comeback Album, Says Leon Mcdermott, but After That Incident at the Super Bowl Will America Forgive Her?

However, after a decade which has seen a couple of lacklustre albums and a perfunctory greatest-hits package, Jackson stands on the brink, attempting to relaunch her career shortly after an incident which h...

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