Iconic. Cool. Sexy. Revered. Janet is the legendary pop star most aspire to be. Her cover was a sensation at the time.
Janet’s iconic Rolling Stone cover was released 30 years ago today! 9/16/93
by Anonymous | reply 116 | September 30, 2023 5:19 PM |
*eyeroll*
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 17, 2023 12:23 AM |
And in a decade, she'd unleash one of them again, its sag nearly hitting the floor, and end what as left of her sad career.
Live by the titty, die by the titty.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 17, 2023 12:24 AM |
I never realized that those are Rene Elizondo's hands. I've always wondered whose hands they were, so finally googled it.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 17, 2023 12:27 AM |
That's the one, looking like spoiled cow's tongue.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 17, 2023 12:30 AM |
Like a old fried egg...
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 17, 2023 12:32 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 17, 2023 12:33 AM |
It was not floppy. In case you can’t see, it’s being pressed down on the side and below by the leather.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 17, 2023 12:33 AM |
Third rate compared to Jennifer's 1996 cover
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 17, 2023 12:34 AM |
Honey, dearest R8, the leather is the only thing keeping it from hitting her knee.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 17, 2023 12:34 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 17, 2023 12:36 AM |
R9 Janet’s is iconic. Jen’s isn’t.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 17, 2023 12:36 AM |
Always though that cover was so stupid. Hey look at me, someone is holding my titties, aren't I naughty??!!! Dumb as hell.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 17, 2023 12:39 AM |
In 1993 it was a big deal. Of course today it’s whatever but in 1993 it was considered daring and bold.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 17, 2023 12:41 AM |
Especially because it was Janet, who had a clean image. People would expect that from Madonna or Sam Fox but not Janet. Her “Janet” era was a 180 from her “Rhythm Nation” era.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 17, 2023 12:42 AM |
Demi’s naked pregnancy magazine cover made a bigger splash.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 17, 2023 12:43 AM |
Yes. Because she was pregnant.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 17, 2023 12:44 AM |
Remember how huge her first two albums were?
Oh, that's right, they were flops. The only reason Control was a hit was because the world was clamoring for more Michael and Capitol cashed in.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 17, 2023 12:46 AM |
R18 that’s false. All the siblings were releasing more music at that time and only she found success. It’s because the music was GOOD.
Her first two albums were under a different record label and they didn’t put any budget into it. They didn’t promote it or anything.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 17, 2023 12:48 AM |
Rolling Stone acknowledged it today and rereleased the article online for one of their biggest issues ever.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 17, 2023 12:49 AM |
I was born in 87 and was so desensitized to smut by that Superbowl that I didn’t even flinch at her titty and was genuinely SHOCKED at school the next day that it was such a big deal.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 17, 2023 12:50 AM |
I looked it up and Janet Jackson has had 3 Rolling Stone covers during her entire career.
Madonna has had 22 Rolling Stone covers during her entire career.
One is not like the other. One is an music icon - the other an average pop star who is now largely forgotten.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 17, 2023 12:53 AM |
[quote]I was born in 87 and was so desensitized to smut by that Superbowl that I didn’t even flinch at her titty and was genuinely SHOCKED at school the next day that it was such a big deal.
r21 Same. I honestly thought it was supposed to happen and thought nothing of it. It looked like she had a pasty on. It's my first time seeing an up-close photo showing that it's actually an elaborate nipple ring.
I mean, this is how Lil' Kim showed up to the VMAs in 1999 and got groped by Diana Ross. I was in middle school when I saw this.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 17, 2023 1:02 AM |
Lmao. Both are icons. One was overexposed while the other never was.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 17, 2023 1:02 AM |
It has all the sex appeal of Meredith Baxter’s lumpectomy in “My Breast”.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 17, 2023 1:04 AM |
To be fair, Madonna is largely forgotten, too. The kids don’t know her music. At least Janet has Black youth, who because of her last name, feel a sense of obligation and loyalty to her in a way that White kids or even Italian kids don’t to Madonna. The Madonna character was repurposed into Gaga. Janet remains. Luckily for Janet, her image clone, Ciara, never reached superstar status.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 17, 2023 1:11 AM |
[quote]To be fair, Madonna is largely forgotten, too.
LOL!
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 17, 2023 1:13 AM |
R26 neither is forgotten and don’t bring race up here. I’m sick of your racism. Go to a Janet show and it’s been more white people than anyone since the late 80s. Welcome to real life.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 17, 2023 1:14 AM |
[quote] To be fair, Madonna is largely forgotten, too. The kids don’t know her music. At least Janet has Black youth, who because of her last name, feel a sense of obligation and loyalty to her in a way that White kids or even Italian kids don’t to Madonna. The Madonna character was repurposed into Gaga. Janet remains. Luckily for Janet, her image clone, Ciara, never reached superstar status.
Ummm, no. All of it.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 17, 2023 1:14 AM |
In what world was Ciara Janet’s “image clone”? Ciara came out in the 00s as a fucking teenager.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 17, 2023 1:16 AM |
R28 kids don’t go to concerts anymore. They go to TikTok.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 17, 2023 1:17 AM |
R30 the whole soft voiced dancer thing.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 17, 2023 1:18 AM |
R32 there are a lot of them. Are they all clones of Janet? Ciara never had the same image as Janet and didn’t do music like Janet’s.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 17, 2023 1:21 AM |
Britney mirrored her career after Janet. Not Ciara. Ciara was a 2 step teenage R&B star.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 17, 2023 1:22 AM |
[quote]Ciara never had the same image as Janet and didn’t do music like Janet’s.
Ummm...
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 17, 2023 1:36 AM |
Not like Janet. Thanks for proving our point r35
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 17, 2023 1:38 AM |
Is that Janet or Billy Porter?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 17, 2023 1:58 AM |
It was the kind of stunt I might have expected from the likes of Pebbles!
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 17, 2023 3:56 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 20, 2023 10:52 PM |
[quote]looked it up and Janet Jackson has had 3 Rolling Stone covers during her entire career. Madonna has had 22 Rolling Stone covers during her entire career.
Well, when well-renown racist Jan Wenner is running things, it’s no wonder why. From what I’ve heard, he’s long had something against Janet, and since we now know how he feels about black artists and female artists, it’s not hard to think why Janet got the shaft. Suffice it to say, Janet’s 1993 RS cover is leagues more iconic than ANY Madonna RS cover, many of which barely register to my memory. This is not opinion, it is a fact, and ye shall deal.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 20, 2023 11:01 PM |
Jennifer Aniston and Demi Moore? Ha! Spare me.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 20, 2023 11:02 PM |
Janet’s ‘93 Rolling Stone cover is not only the most iconic RS cover by any of her contemporaries, but it is the most iconic photo of a female pop star of all time. It has been copied and paid homage to dozens of times over the years and is an indelible part of pop culture.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 20, 2023 11:12 PM |
Only somebody white would think that the Aniston and Moore covers were more iconic than Janet’s. They pale in comparison.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 20, 2023 11:13 PM |
We tried that cover with Janet, we really did. I said to myself, go ahead. Take a chance. Hire the smart, fat girl. I had hope. My God. I live on it.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 20, 2023 11:17 PM |
It figures a boob like Jabba would go on and on about Janet's RS cover.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 20, 2023 11:20 PM |
That cover is LEGEND.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 20, 2023 11:23 PM |
[quote] Iconic. Cool. Sexy. Revered.
Fat. Ashy. Smelling of Baja Fresh. Reviled.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 20, 2023 11:51 PM |
^Your faggot opinion is a non-factor.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 21, 2023 12:52 AM |
[quote][R9] Janet’s is iconic. Jen’s isn’t.
Yes, and it bears repeating.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 21, 2023 12:53 AM |
OP = Jann Wenner, trying to score some brownie points 🥴🥴
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 21, 2023 1:20 AM |
Oh no - it looks like she has stacked all the weight back on in R40's pic.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 21, 2023 3:20 AM |
[quote] ^Your faggot opinion is a non-factor.
Come say that to my face.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 21, 2023 3:04 PM |
[quote]Come say that to my face.
Fortunately for me, your face is something I'll never have to endure the sight of.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 21, 2023 5:36 PM |
I'm sure it's better than what you look like, Jabba, you fat plug.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 21, 2023 5:40 PM |
Janet is fugly. How much better would it have been if it were Whitney or Exene.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 21, 2023 6:07 PM |
Exene? Who she be, boo?
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 21, 2023 6:55 PM |
Never mind, I looked Exene up. She had Viggo Mortensen’s peen.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 21, 2023 6:56 PM |
[quote]^Your faggot opinion is a non-factor.
Nigga, sit down and stfu!
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 23, 2023 7:42 PM |
The Chainsmokers recently recreated the cover.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 28, 2023 8:53 PM |
Has-beens doing has-beens.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 28, 2023 9:50 PM |
That’s quite an embarrassing picture. Particularly for whatever poor sod has been directed to stand behind her and cop a feel of her tits.
Didn’t she used to slut shame Madonna for doing stuff like this? Between that and the superbowl debacle, her own hypocrisy did not help her career one bit.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 28, 2023 9:55 PM |
Janet Jackson?
die Fette Sau!
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 28, 2023 10:06 PM |
[quote]That’s quite an embarrassing picture.
Spoken like a true fag with zero interest in the female form. It’s the most iconic photo of a female pop star in history, and you will deal.
[quote]Particularly for whatever poor sod has been directed to stand behind her and cop a feel of her tits.
Again, spoken like a pansy. And it was her husband at the time, Rene.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 28, 2023 10:41 PM |
^Jump, fagula!
by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 28, 2023 10:47 PM |
Man, those tits hit the skids 10 years later.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 28, 2023 10:59 PM |
She was very beautiful back then
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 28, 2023 11:00 PM |
We've seen her flabby mammary when she stunted 20 years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 28, 2023 11:02 PM |
Her tits are obviously like ironed flat fried eggs R72. I mean... we can literally SEE them.
Her face is now so altered by plastic surgery and fillers and other chemicals she looks terrifying. She looks like Michael Jackson. Her nose.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 29, 2023 1:46 AM |
She's making a rare appearance because no one usually wants to see her.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 29, 2023 1:57 AM |
I'd be very supportive if she wanted to start wearing a burka again R75. Then nobody will have to see her at all. Remember when she did that during her fake pregnancy before she got dumped?
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 29, 2023 2:00 AM |
[quote] Her tits are obviously like ironed flat fried eggs
Hey, fried egg titties are MY thing!
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 29, 2023 2:19 AM |
Yours don't need a bra, Bonnie. Janet's need a catapult.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 29, 2023 2:25 AM |
She just rolls them up and packs them into a boob shaped bra like in R72's image.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 29, 2023 2:28 AM |
[quote] Spoken like a true fag with zero interest in the female form. It’s the most iconic photo of a female pop star in history, and you will deal.
Proof?
Oh, that's right, Jabba is allergic to proof.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 29, 2023 2:31 AM |
[quote]It’s the most iconic photo of a female pop star in history
Imagine trying to claim that with a straight face! LOL
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 29, 2023 2:38 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 29, 2023 2:58 AM |
When did Janbot start using the f-slur in posts?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 29, 2023 3:28 AM |
[quote]Her tits are obviously like ironed flat fried eggs [R72]. I mean... we can literally SEE them.
What you LITERALLY see is cleavage through a sheer black top. But, I digress.
[quote]She looks like Michael Jackson
Well, they ARE siblings so, there's that.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 29, 2023 3:34 AM |
[quote]Proof?
Posts upthread aside, the examples are plentiful on that lil' thing called Google.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 29, 2023 3:36 AM |
Britney took over Janet’s career to a T. Although Britney ended up with the much better catalogue.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 29, 2023 3:49 AM |
[quote]Britney mimicked Janet’s career to a T.
Fixed.
[quote]Although Britney ended up with the much better catalogue.
AAAHHHAHAHAHAHA!!!! On what planet, girl? Other than the sound-alike Max Martin dreck she cranked out early in her career, all that's left are Neptune-produced Janet-esque throwaways and a handful of videos that are like highly inferior carbon copies of Janet's iconic ones. But let's all watch as Brit twirls to one of her favorite icon's legendary #1 hits...
by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 29, 2023 4:08 AM |
[quote] When did Janbot start using the f-slur in posts?
Since it popped out of its mother's crust ridden vagina.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 29, 2023 4:42 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 29, 2023 8:54 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 90 | September 29, 2023 8:57 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 29, 2023 8:58 AM |
At the time, I remember some of us thinking that Janet was trying to out-shock Madonna.
The previous year, Madonna had released her EROTICA album and SEX book in quick succession, which caused quite a stir and endangered her career.
At least in the USA.
In early 1993, her #1 hit single "This Used to Be My Playground" from the 1992 summer blockbuster A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN was snubbed by the Oscars for Best Song despite getting a Golden Globe nod.
Her Girlie Show concert world tour to promote EROTICA only did four shows in America (3 in NYC, 1 in Philly) because the public/critical response was so negative.
On the other hand, Janet's career wasn't endangered by this stunt at all. It received a lot of publicity and criticism by some, but she wasn't nearly ostracized like Madonna had been.
In fact, the Janet World Tour played all over the USA and the following year she was Oscar-nominated for the song "Again" from POETIC JUSTICE.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | September 29, 2023 10:02 AM |
R92 This was just before she discovered the cure for cancer on her way to being the first black woman on Mars. You go, gurl!
by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 29, 2023 10:27 AM |
[quote] When did Janbot start using the f-slur in posts?
Janbot routinely forgets to take her meds.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 29, 2023 11:09 AM |
And yet, R92 - Madonna is still the top selling female artist of all time and the 6th highest artist of all time.
Janet Jackson is #72...
One is not like the other.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 29, 2023 11:34 AM |
Number 72...
by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 29, 2023 11:38 AM |
I remember that time too, R92. Madonna couldn’t get a #1 album Stateside throughout the entirety of the ‘90s when Janet was cranking out #1 albums and singles and being nominated for the Academy Award. And then there was this quote from Janet about Erotica’s sales that STILL makes me laugh to this day…
by Anonymous | reply 99 | September 29, 2023 1:32 PM |
This photo aptly describes the current state of MANdonna’s career…
by Anonymous | reply 101 | September 29, 2023 1:35 PM |
Madonna only hung with people who had taste, like this guy wearing a custom Rhythm Nation Tour jacket…
by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 29, 2023 1:36 PM |
You can post all you want, lard ass, but that still doesn't change the fact....
72
SEVENTY-TWO
by Anonymous | reply 103 | September 29, 2023 5:06 PM |
72 pounds?
72 Baja Fresh gift cards?
by Anonymous | reply 104 | September 29, 2023 6:01 PM |
R101 looks like a giant tooth.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | September 29, 2023 10:37 PM |
Old and tired images
by Anonymous | reply 107 | September 29, 2023 11:05 PM |
She was gorgeous then.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | September 29, 2023 11:44 PM |
R108 don't you just love history revisionism?
How can a person be a *true* Queen (or King) of something if they are second-tier?
Janet never reached the heights of Madonna -- nor her brother MJ, for that matter.
They were world superstars; Janet not so much.
And their track records reflect that.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | September 30, 2023 1:22 AM |
SEVENTY TWO!
by Anonymous | reply 111 | September 30, 2023 3:03 AM |
[quote]They were world superstars; Janet not so much.
Janet Jackson has won multiple international awards and has been selling out arenas and stadiums on multiple continents since the early '90s. The revisionist history ball, my dear, is in your court.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | September 30, 2023 5:43 AM |
[quote] The revisionist history ball, my dear, is in your court.
You're the revisionist, Waddles.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | September 30, 2023 5:47 AM |
Janbot really needs to get laid.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | September 30, 2023 10:51 AM |
First you'd have to find its privates under the rolls.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | September 30, 2023 3:27 PM |
La Reina de Root Beer
by Anonymous | reply 116 | September 30, 2023 5:19 PM |