Janet’s iconic Rolling Stone cover was released 30 years ago today! 9/16/93

*eyeroll*

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.

I never realized that those are Rene Elizondo's hands. I've always wondered whose hands they were, so finally googled it.

Did you mean this R2?

That's the one, looking like spoiled cow's tongue.

Like a old fried egg...

It was not floppy. In case you can’t see, it’s being pressed down on the side and below by the leather.

Third rate compared to Jennifer's 1996 cover

Honey, dearest R8, the leather is the only thing keeping it from hitting her knee.

R9 Janet’s is iconic. Jen’s isn’t.

Always though that cover was so stupid. Hey look at me, someone is holding my titties, aren't I naughty??!!! Dumb as hell.

In 1993 it was a big deal. Of course today it’s whatever but in 1993 it was considered daring and bold.

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.

Demi’s naked pregnancy magazine cover made a bigger splash.

Yes. Because she was pregnant.

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.

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.

Rolling Stone acknowledged it today and rereleased the article online for one of their biggest issues ever.

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.

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.

[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.

Lmao. Both are icons. One was overexposed while the other never was.

It has all the sex appeal of Meredith Baxter’s lumpectomy in “My Breast”.

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.

[quote]To be fair, Madonna is largely forgotten, too.

LOL!

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.

[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.

In what world was Ciara Janet’s “image clone”? Ciara came out in the 00s as a fucking teenager.

R28 kids don’t go to concerts anymore. They go to TikTok.

R30 the whole soft voiced dancer thing.

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.

Britney mirrored her career after Janet. Not Ciara. Ciara was a 2 step teenage R&B star.

[quote]Ciara never had the same image as Janet and didn’t do music like Janet’s.

Ummm...

Not like Janet. Thanks for proving our point r35

r36 No, baby.

Is that Janet or Billy Porter?

It was the kind of stunt I might have expected from the likes of Pebbles!

[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.

Jennifer Aniston and Demi Moore? Ha! Spare me.

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.

Only somebody white would think that the Aniston and Moore covers were more iconic than Janet’s. They pale in comparison.

I loved Kathy Griffin’s take on it 😆

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.

It figures a boob like Jabba would go on and on about Janet's RS cover.

That cover is LEGEND.

[quote] Iconic. Cool. Sexy. Revered.

Fat. Ashy. Smelling of Baja Fresh. Reviled.

^Your faggot opinion is a non-factor.

[quote][R9] Janet’s is iconic. Jen’s isn’t.

Yes, and it bears repeating.

OP = Jann Wenner, trying to score some brownie points 🥴🥴

Oh no - it looks like she has stacked all the weight back on in R40's pic.

[quote] ^Your faggot opinion is a non-factor.

Come say that to my face.

[quote]Come say that to my face.

Fortunately for me, your face is something I'll never have to endure the sight of.

I'm sure it's better than what you look like, Jabba, you fat plug.

.....

Janet is fugly. How much better would it have been if it were Whitney or Exene.

Exene? Who she be, boo?

Never mind, I looked Exene up. She had Viggo Mortensen’s peen.

[quote]^Your faggot opinion is a non-factor.

Nigga, sit down and stfu!

The Chainsmokers recently recreated the cover.

Has-beens doing has-beens.

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.

Janet Jackson?

die Fette Sau!

[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.

Jabba was at the airport this week.

^Jump, fagula!

Rene was FOINE.

Man, those tits hit the skids 10 years later.

She was very beautiful back then

Her tits are fine

We've seen her flabby mammary when she stunted 20 years ago.

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.

She's making a rare appearance because no one usually wants to see her.

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?

[quote] Her tits are obviously like ironed flat fried eggs

Hey, fried egg titties are MY thing!

Yours don't need a bra, Bonnie. Janet's need a catapult.

She just rolls them up and packs them into a boob shaped bra like in R72's image.

[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.

[quote]It’s the most iconic photo of a female pop star in history

Imagine trying to claim that with a straight face! LOL

When did Janbot start using the f-slur in posts?

[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.

[quote]Proof?

Posts upthread aside, the examples are plentiful on that lil' thing called Google.

Britney took over Janet’s career to a T. Although Britney ended up with the much better catalogue.

[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...

[quote] When did Janbot start using the f-slur in posts?

Since it popped out of its mother's crust ridden vagina.

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.

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!

So regal, so beautiful.

[quote] When did Janbot start using the f-slur in posts?

Janbot routinely forgets to take her meds.

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.

Number 72...

Janet, the queen of Pop…

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…

The Queen of Pop…

This photo aptly describes the current state of MANdonna’s career…

Madonna only hung with people who had taste, like this guy wearing a custom Rhythm Nation Tour jacket…

You can post all you want, lard ass, but that still doesn't change the fact....

72

SEVENTY-TWO

72 pounds?

72 Baja Fresh gift cards?

72 pins for the Queen of Pop!

R101 looks like a giant tooth.

Old and tired images

Janet IS the Queen of Pop.

She was gorgeous then.

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.

SEVENTY TWO!

[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.

[quote] The revisionist history ball, my dear, is in your court.

You're the revisionist, Waddles.

Janbot really needs to get laid.

First you'd have to find its privates under the rolls.

La Reina de Root Beer