lowkey said:

Why would she do that

RnBAmbassador said:

OUCH!!!

RnBAmbassador said:

Yea, desperate enough to do this http://www.essencemusicfe...m/home.php

Hold up lemme get this straight...

Janet Jackson + Essence Festival = ???

Something in the water does not compute.

This is an arena artist, why is she in a festival? She's been doing this festival thing for a while actually. lol

Anyway hope she does great.

RnBAmbassador lives for Janet.

Timmy84 said:

Its just for the 40th anniversary

trueiopian said:

OK I'll take your word for it lol

Timmy84 said:

i went to the essence fest at the superdome, this is a huge event

midiscover said:

what do you mean why? she has to play to the audience. have you ever been to the essence fest?

Timmy84 said:

uhhh, the Superdome in New Orleans IS an arena! now if she was doing one of the "superlounges" that they have THEN, it'd be strange. great festival, built in audience, many of whom might not have seen her, she'll KILL it

datdude said:

Then in that case, let it all hang out lol

Timmy84 said:

The Essence Festival gives her a chance to connect
with the audience that supported her from the
beginning before she became major and she became
acceptable across the board.

phunkdaddy said:

Gotcha lol

lowkey said:

I hope she does her fun songs and some R&B hits like I Get Lonely and etc.

Timmy84 said:

KEY WORDS: Essence. Festival.

And who are the majority of music fans that goes to this annual event? Black folks.

Janet is going to re-introduce herself to her black audience. I hope she plans of performing Young Love once again.

lowkey said:

Precisely.

She's not really hitting it with the 20 year old market right now, so it makes perfect sense to me that she would be playing to the audience that has grown with her for the last 20 years, and they are of a mature age. The Essence Music festival is a chilled out set of venues for upscale, mature, black music listeners of neo-soul or nostalgic r&b, it ain't SBSW or Coachella.

TonyVanDam said:

That was the jam back in the day!

TonyVanDam said:

So she's only going to perform music black people like? Did other acts have to do this? Just wondering....

TonyVanDam said:

Just because she did it at her concert two years ago... Black folks BEEN in her career since the beginning except for the last two albums. So what are you talking about? She BEEN "reintroducing" herself to her "black audience".

Timmy84 said:

Until now, Janet has even given THIS fan the very wrong impression that she was too ashamed of her first 2 career albums. Granted, those same 2 albums did NOT give her the mainstream crossover success that she wanted. But Janet Jackson & Dreamstreet are still well known "hood records" with some very good bubblegum funk/soul tracks.

trueiopian said:

Oh my

Just about every artist that performed at the festival are black and I'm positive most enjoy a great majority of their catalogue. I don't see how Janet would be any different. So I don't know what some are talking about with this "reconnecting" mess

TonyVanDam said:

lol

"Control" was a "hood" record too, it just happened to be embraced by the mainstream too. lmao

Timmy84 said:

I know that. Who are you telling?!? I'm just making a strong case for why it's a great idea to hear tracks from Janet's first 2 albums to be played at Essence.

TonyVanDam said:

Fudgetaboutit it won't.

TonyVanDam said:

Janet prove that wrong when she performed a few songs from her very first self titled album on her last "Rock wit U" tour. She did that for her diehard fans like me from the beginning. It was the icing on the cake after being able to chat with her earlier that year face to face....