Janet Jackson! [merged]

[kiwijuice]

Here ya go everyone... Pre-sale tickets are available now, I already got mine! If your going to the Las Vegas show on Friday October 9th let me know and we can meet up, hangout, pre-game, club afterwards, maybe share a room, have tons of fun!



JANET JACKSON – UNBREAKABLE WORLD TOUR – FIRST LEG

All dates, cities and venues below subject to change.

All dates below on sale June 22.

Date City, Country Venue
Monday, August 31, 2015 Vancouver, BC Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
Wednesday, September 02, 2015 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome
Friday, September 04, 2015 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place
Saturday, September 05, 2015 Grande Prairie, AB Revolution Place
Monday, September 07, 2015 Saskatoon, SK SaskTel Centre
Tuesday, September 08, 2015 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
Friday, September 11, 2015 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
Saturday, September 12, 2015 Cincinnati, OH PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Thursday, September 17, 2015 Raleigh, NC Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
Friday, September 18, 2015 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
Sunday, September 20, 2015 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Orlando, FL Amway Arena
Thursday, September 24, 2015 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena
Saturday, September 26, 2015 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre
Sunday, September 27, 2015 Nashville, TN Ascend Amphitheater
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Memphis, TN Fedex Forum
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center
Friday, October 09, 2015 Las Vegas, NV Axis @ Planet Hollywood
Saturday, October 10, 2015 Las Vegas, NV Axis @ Planet Hollywood
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Friday, October 16, 2015 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
Saturday, October 17, 2015 San Diego, CA Viejas Arena
Monday, October 19, 2015 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
Thursday, October 22, 2015 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
Saturday, October 24, 2015 Salt Lake City, UT Energy Solutions Arena
Sunday, October 25, 2015 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
Thursday, October 29, 2015 St. Louis, MO Chaifetz Arena
Friday, October 30, 2015 Omaha, NE CenturyLink Center
Sunday, November 01, 2015 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
Tuesday, November 03, 2015 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
Wednesday, November 04, 2015 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
Thursday, November 12, 2015 Honolulu, HI Neal S. Blaisdell Center Arena

 

[vacancy3]

I saw her on the rythmn nation tour.....she's coming to a small venue in Cincinnati. I may have to go see her again

 

[aaggii]

New single. I like it:

 

[MrMojoRisin]

The video is finally here:

 

[RyanJ]

She has announced a second U.S. leg. Kicks off in 30 days!!

 

[MrMojoRisin]

She has announced a second U.S. leg. Kicks off in 30 days!!

Not for nothing, but shouldn't the album already be out? Usually if an artist is going to tour in support of a new album, the album is out way before the tour kicks off. And it doesn't look like the album will be out any time soon. We know absolutely nothing about it other than this one song. No title, no cover, no release date, nothing. Yet, the tour kicks off in a month. It makes no sense.

 

[vacancy3]

Holy shit....I just scored tickets to the just announced feb show in Columbus. Super stoked since the cincy show sold out before I could score tix.....can't wait

 

[goldenmoth]

That's wonderful congratulations!

I love no sleeep. It's so good. I wish it would get more airtime

 

[RyanJ]

Not for nothing, but shouldn't the album already be out? Usually if an artist is going to tour in support of a new album, the album is out way before the tour kicks off. And it doesn't look like the album will be out any time soon. We know absolutely nothing about it other than this one song. No title, no cover, no release date, nothing. Yet, the tour kicks off in a month. It makes no sense.

The marketing strategy has been weird. There has been absolutely NO PROMO yet she is still selling tickets and "No Sleeep" went to #1 on one Billboard Chart (Adult R&B) and the tour kicks off next week. The album is called "Unbreakable" and will be slated for release on 10/2. Plus she just had a song snippet released, "The Great Forever." New pictures have emerged too.

 

[MrMojoRisin]

The marketing strategy has been weird. There has been absolutely NO PROMO yet she is still selling tickets and "No Sleeep" went to #1 on one Billboard Chart (Adult R&B) and the tour kicks off next week. The album is called "Unbreakable" and will be slated for release on 10/2. Plus she just had a song snippet released, "The Great Forever." New pictures have emerged too.

I looked and found an article on Wikipedia that mentioned the release date being 10/2. But there is no reliable source I could find. I looked on her official website and couldn't find any info. If that's true, there would be a press release up and it would be everywhere. Besides, October 2nd is a Friday and albums usually come out on Tuesdays. I don't know. I wouldn't get too excited just yet.

 

[vacancy3]

Luke Bryan's new cd came out on a Friday. Iron maidens new one also comes out Friday 9/4

 

[RyanJ]

I looked and found an article on Wikipedia that mentioned the release date being 10/2. But there is no reliable source I could find. I looked on her official website and couldn't find any info. If that's true, there would be a press release up and it would be everywhere. Besides, October 2nd is a Friday and albums usually come out on Tuesdays. I don't know. I wouldn't get too excited just yet.

albums are released on Fridays now -- that took effect this summer. There haven't been any exact confirmations -- but there is an article that Terry Lewis stated 10/2 -- that's where i got that date from. This could make sense too based on that she is performing and closing the iHeart Radio Festival in Vegas on 9/19. Who knows but the album is on the way and tour kicks off tomorrow!

- - - Updated - - -

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/28/janet-jackson-unbreakable-jimmy-jam-terry-lewis

 

[RyanJ]

Posted August 28 2015 — 9:30 AM EDT

Janet Jackson’s forthcoming album Unbreakable is one of the most hotly-anticipated releases of the fall and long-awaited in more ways than one. In addition to it being the first Janet album in seven years (her previous album was 2008’s Discipline), it’s also the first time that the singer has worked with longtime collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in nearly a decade (they last appeared on 2006’s 20 Y.O.).

Jam and Lewis have often felt like extensions of Janet herself, as they have helped craft her sound going all the way back to 1986’s game-changing Control and subsequent masterpieces like Rhythm Nation 1814, janet., The Velvet Rope, and All For You. Their return is part of the reason why Unbreakable is such a topic of conversation.

But another reason why there’s so much fervor surrounding Janet Jackson’s new album is the relative veil of secrecy that has surrounded it. We already know a handful of facts about it: We’ve heard the first single “No Sleeep” (and also seen the video), we know there’s also a song called “The Great Forever,” and we know that there’s a huge tour on the horizon. But thanks to a recent conversation EW had with Jam and Lewis, we now know a few more things about the new album.

“No Sleeep” almost didn’t make it.
The album’s first single began as something of an afterthought. “ ‘No Sleeep’ was basically called that because it was like five in the morning, and we had just completed a day of work and I was still awake, so I was playing around with some different stuff and came up with the skeleton of it,” explains Jam (whose birth name is James Harris III). The sliver of a tune was filed away until Lewis went looking for something on Jam’s computer and ran across the file. “He hit this track and it came on blasting, and Janet said, ‘Ooh, what’s that?’ I told her it was a track I did like two months ago, and she was like, ‘You didn’t play that for me!’ It wasn’t done, it was just kind of an idea,” Jam says. “So Terry asked me for a melody, and it evolved from there. Janet loved it—just the feeling that she got when she heard it is the feeling she wanted the fans to have. Just a warm, welcoming, sensual feel. But it was almost forgotten.”

There’s a song called “Night.”
The re-discovery process the trio of Jackson, Jam, and Lewis went through on “No Sleeep” showed up again when working on another song, and it ultimately hinged on Jackson’s physical reaction. “We did another song that’s just called ‘Night.’ We never really had an ending for it,” says Jam. “So I got this idea for an ending and told her about it. I worked on it a little bit, then I gave it to Terry, and we were playing her some stuff just to show her where we were at, and when that ending came on that she hadn’t heard, it was the same thing: huge smile, dancing around the room. She loved it. To me, as a collaborator, that’s to me the best feeling in the world when you get something that moves her like that. That’s what you want.”

Janet already had the Unbreakable concept in mind when she began working.
The sessions for the new album originated with Jackson explaining an idea for a concept with Jam and Lewis. “She revealed to us what her concept was, and as we always do, we just began making music,” says Lewis. “We don’t try to directly flesh out a concept until that time comes. We just try to get creative and start recording and do what feels good musically. She came with the concept, and that became the beginning theme of where we started.”

The album’s lyrics come from a deeply personal place.
Lewis says the Unbreakable idea will be wide-ranging and allow for Jackson to express quite a bit of herself. “It’s such a broad concept,” he explains. “You can think of it many different ways. Some people think of unbreakable as being hard, but I think unbreakable is just being able to be vulnerable and to be able to withstand what comes to you. She’s lived a lot of life in the last few years.”

The tour and the album were often being conceived concurrently.
Jam notes that there were days, particularly toward the end of the sessions for the album, that would find Janet working all day in rehearsals for the stage show and then reporting to the studio to finalize ideas for the record.

Unbreakable sounds unlike any past Janet Jackson album.
Both Jam and Lewis believe that fans will be surprised at the different versions of Jackson that show up on the album, but ultimately she’ll still be holding everything together. “I think it’s totally different from any of her other albums,” says Jam. “But it feels like her. At the end of the day, I go back to that. The thing about this album is there’s a lot of different places that it touches, but at the end of the day, it’s pure Janet.”

 

[RyanJ]

The tour kicked off last night in Vancouver. She looked and was amazing based on the videos I saw. I believe the person who posted these is on this board:

 

[RyanJ]

LAST NIGHT'S SET LIST:

Burn It Up (new song w/ Missy Elliott)
Nasty (with sample from Big Sean's "I Don't Fuck With You")
Feedback
Miss You Much
Alright
You Want This
Control
What Have You Done For Me Lately
Pleasure Principle
Escapade
When I Think Of You
All For You
All Nite (Don't Stop)
Love Will Never Do (Without You)
DJ SET (INTERLUDE): R&B Junkie/Go Deep/Luv Me, Luv Me/So Excited
After You Fall
Again
Come Back To Me
Let's Wait Awhile
I Get Lonely
Any Time, Any Place (with Kendrick Lemar's Poetic Justice sample)
No Sleeep (new song -- first single)
Got 'Til It's Gone
That's The Way Love Goes
Together Again remix into Together Again album version
Throb
Black Cat
If
Scream
Rhythm Nation
Should Have Known Better (new song)
Unbreakable (new song)

The show was about 110 minutes and she was pretty much on stage the entire time. The Chicago shows can't come any sooner for me

 

[thenewkcm]

So I'm still recovering from the Miami show and it was amazing!

I pre-ordered the album, so I became VIP and got to go through the museum. Her staff was very nice and friendly, then they upgraded me to front row!! It was a great experience!!

Here are the dates for 2016, make sure you get your tickets! And don't forget to buy the album on October 2nd.

Jan. 12 – Portland, Ore., Moda Center
Jan. 13 – Seattle, Wash., KeyArena At Seattle Center
Jan. 15 – Sacramento, Calif., Sleep Train Arena
Jan. 16 – Anaheim, Calif., Honda Center
Jan. 19 – Tucson, Ariz., Tucson Arena
Jan. 21 – San Antonio, Texas, AT&T Center
Jan. 23 – Houston, Texas, Toyota Center
Jan. 24 – Dallas, Texas, American Airlines Center
Jan. 27 – Tulsa, Okla., BOK Center
Jan. 29 – Indianapolis, Ind., Bankers Life Fieldhouse
Jan. 30 – Lexington, Ky., Rupp Arena
Feb. 1 – Columbus, Ohio, Schottenstein Center
Feb. 2 – Cleveland, Ohio, Quicken Loans Arena
Feb. 5 – Auburn Hills, Mich., The Palace Of Auburn Hills
Feb. 6 – Pittsburgh, Pa., Consol Energy Center
Feb. 17 – Newark, N.J., Prudential Center
Feb. 19 – Bethlehem, Pa., Sands Bethlehem Event Center
Feb. 22 – Brooklyn, N.Y., Barclays Center
Feb. 24 – Philadelphia, Pa., Wells Fargo Center
Feb. 26 – Boston, Mass., TD Garden
Feb. 27 - Hartford, CT, XL Center
Feb. 29 – Baltimore, Md., Royal Farms Arena
March 1 – Washington, D.C., Verizon Center
March 3 – Atlanta, Ga., Philips Arena
March 4 – Winston-Salem, N.C., Lawrence Joel Vet. Mem. Coliseum
March 6 – Columbia, S.C., Colonial Life Arena
March 8 – Jacksonville, Fla., Jacksonville Veterans Mem. Arena
March 9 – Sunrise, Fla., BB&T Center
May 19 – Concord, Calif., Concord Pavilion
May 21 – Los Angeles, Calif., Hollywood Bowl
May 24 – Albuquerque, N.M., Isleta Amphitheater
May 26 – Austin, Texas, Frank Erwin Center
May 28 – Lafayette, La., Cajundome
May 29 – Birmingham, Ala., Legacy Arena At The BJCC
May 31 – North Little Rock, Ark., Verizon Arena
June 2 – Moline, Ill., I Wireless Center
June 4 – Rosemont, Ill., Allstate Arena
June 5 – Milwaukee, Wis., BMO Harris Bradley Center
June 7 – Toledo, Ohio, Huntington Center
June 8 – Louisville, Ky., KFC Yum! Center
June 10 – Norfolk, Va., Norfolk Scope Arena
June 11 – Atlantic City, N.J., Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
June 14 – Hershey, Pa., GIANT Center
June 15 – Rochester, N.Y., Blue Cross Arena
June 17 – Montreal, Quebec, Bell Centre
June 18 – London, Ontario, Budweiser Gardens
June 21 – Manchester, N.H., Verizon Wireless Arena
June 22 – Providence, R.I., Dunkin’ Donuts Center
June 24 – Holmdel, N.J., PNC Bank Arts Center
June 25 – Wantagh, N.Y., Nikon At Jones Beach Theater

 

[vacancy3]

I'm going to the Columbus show

 

[Ontariobear]

We have good seats for London ON next June.

 

[RyanJ]

The album is out NOW. Have you purchased or streamed? AMAZING production. Cross between Rhythm Nation and Velvet Rope.

 

[aaggii]

After No Sleeep (the original, not the collaboration) came out, I was really looking for it, but it´s such a boring album. Yes, the production is as good as it gets in 2015 when you have a shitload of money. Night and No Sleeep (solo version) are the only 2 songs I dig, the rest are so early 2000s.