Janet Jackson

The Biggest Celebrity Blunders Of Modern Times

There are a lot to choose from because, just like they soar in special and exciting ways, celebs also mess up with a gigantic splash heard 'round the world. Here are the choices for the worst star boo-boos of our times, as selected by the posters over at datalounge.com: Cher's hair care infomerci ... More >>

Pick Your Favorite Celebrity Sibling

I'll list some currently alive siblings (or semi-siblings) and I'll highlight my favorite of each bunch by putting them in boldface. You tell me your own personal faves in these same groupings. Break the rules and you're no sister of mine. Toni Braxton....Her sisters Joey Luft.....Lorna Luft, ... More >>

Six Songs That Can Almost Make You Feel Like You're Actually Outside On A Nice Day Like Today

Have you been outside yet today? It's so nice! Sunny, breezy, just brushing 70 degrees—sure, the factors leading to this pleasantness are probably not all that great, and apparently rain's going to come and wash away this pre-Daylight Savings Time reprieve pretty soon (note graphic at left), b ... More >>

Adele And M.I.A. Bring Back The Middle Finger!

​At the Super Bowl Half Time show, famously enough, M.I.A. flipped the bird and uttered an "expletive," unbeknownst to star Madonna, who later expressed dismay that such a juvenile act disrupted the feeling of love and peace that had taken over the stadium. This from the woman who said "Fuck" ... More >>

Sound Of The City's 11 Clickiest Posts Of 2011

We're about to close up shop here until 2012, and what better way to send out the year that birthed trollgaze than to run down the 11 posts on Sound of the City that generated the most pageviews over the course of the past 52 weeks? Enjoy this look back on the psyche of our readers, and have a happy ... More >>

'Mr. Saturday Night' w/ Mark E

100 & Single: Rihanna's Post-Millennial Strategy For Setting Chart Records

​Pop-chart record-keeping can be as contentious as baseball's, and we've got quite the steroids-style asterisk forming atop Billboard's Hot 100. On the most recent chart, the most pervasive radio star of the last half-decade brushed past a couple of legends into the hall of fame. And like Barr ... More >>

Kelly Clarkson's Seven Best Cover Songs

Bryan Horowitz​In this week's Voice I talked about the new album by Kelly Clarkson, inaugural American Idol and the pop star who seems most likely to be a rip-roaring time at a coffee klatsch/Tupperware party/gathering of pals. The show that put her on the map, of course, is known for putting ... More >>

Radio Hits One: The Elusive Superstar Duet (Or Three-Way)

​ In last week's breakdown of Lil Wayne's chart ubiquity, I noted that while Lady Gaga's Born This Way and its singles seemed to be everywhere, she hasn't staked out much additional Billboard territory with collaborations. Her only charting collab of late is "3-Way (The Golden Rule)," a little ... More >>

Coming To The Local Sheds This Summer: Lots Of "Heritage Acts" And Country Stars (And Yeasayer)

Yeasayer. Here's hoping things are a bit warmer than this for their shows this summer. ​Today Live Nation announced a slew of shows at Long Island's Nikon at Jones Beach Theater and New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center, and in addition to the many classic rock acts (with "classic rock" now being ... More >>

Janet Jackson Has Some Butch Competition

​ Butch Cordora is a Philadelphia-based TV personality who famously did a calendar called Straight & Butch, in which he lay naked with 12 hetero guys (but not all at once), often simulating famous images from pop culture. Well, here's a famous Janet Jackson photo you'll recognize, adjacent t ... More >>

THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

Janet offers just the chart-toppers

Narcissister Keeps Avant-Garde Performance Alive and Spinning

​A four-headed creature -- all masked, by the way -- with arms as legs and vice versa, Narcissister is the strikingly schizo creation of a Brooklyn-based artist/performer who trained at Alvin Ailey's Dance Center. Directed by Rob Roth, Narcissister: This Masquerade -- a one-hour romp at Abron ... More >>

Michael Jackson Used to Torture Janet

​The guy who was always pissed at the world for all the teasing he got was the world's biggest teaser himself! In her new book True You, Janet Jackson reveals that while she adored her brother and he had a beautiful heart, he would mercilessly make fun of her when they were kids.

Presenting Popdust, A New Pop-Music Blog Costarring One Maura Johnston

​The birth of any new music-writing outlet is cause for ecstatic celebration, particularly when it happens to involve writers we know and love. So please welcome Popdust, the new concern of former Blender/Billboard dude Craig Marks, featuring the blogging talents of one Maura Johnston, who yo ... More >>

Watch Kathleen Hanna Sing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" And "Rebel Girl" At Joe's Pub Last Week

​Kathleen Hanna is slowly creeping back into the limelight -- a few nights after taking the stage during her own star-studded tribute show at the Knitting Factory, the Riot Grrrl luminary/semi-recluse showed up at an Our Hit Parade fete at Joe's Pub for a long, rambling, thoroughly engrossing ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Death To Chris Brown

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! America's preeminent lady-beater weeps. Photo via Word Up!& ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #5: Artists for Haiti, "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​In 2010, when pop musicians are struggling to have half the visibility of the latest news-cycle-spawned entrant into Google Trends, it's hard not to see charity endeavors as ego extensions. Recall "Just Stand Up!," ... More >>

'Confessions of an Agent' Provides Best Reasons Yet to Pay College Players

SI.comJosh Luchs​This week's Sports Illustrated cover story is the most important sports story since Tom Verducci's groundbreaking story on performance enhancing drugs, "Totally Juiced," back in 2002. As you've probably heard, the article, "Confessions of an Agent," just out today, is Josh L ... More >>

Here Is Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" Video, Finally

At the onset, the sexy/military theme here feels like it'll be content to recall Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" video and call it a day, but we (of course) get into some weirder, more ostensibly provocative stuff here, particularly the Latex Nun getup (sure to be a hit come Halloween) and the who ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Finale Results

Vince Bucci/FOX Alice Cooper and the Idols​ 8:01pm. It's a sad night, and not because we're saying goodbye to another season of Idol, not because we're saying goodbye to Simon Cowell, but because they managed to drag this out to a two-hour production of group sings and product placements. 8: ... More >>

Tyler Perry's Worst Film: Why Did I Get Married Too?

2007’s Why Did I Get Married? was his best. The sequel is not.

Michael Musto's Top Three Top Ten Lists, Because Why Not?

Michael Jackson Saves Slow News Day with FBI Kid Sex, Death Threat Files

​It's Christmas Eve's Eve's Eve and we got nothing, so thank Santa for the Freedom of Information Act, which got the FBI to release documents showing that the feds were looking into Michael Jackson's life, particularly the parts spent with young boys. Now we can relive the magic all over again ... More >>

The Highs and Lows of the VMAs

​So the channel that doesn't show videos anymore gave its annual awards to videos, and as usual, there were weirdnesses. (For example, if Beyonce didn't win Best Female Video, how could she win Video of the Year?) But there were astounding performances, all reflecting the sense that no longer ... More >>

From the Voice Archives: Guy Trebay on Michael Jackson in 1987

In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Guy Trebay on the inscrutable and surgically air-brushed creature Jackson had become in 1987. It ran alongside a Greg Tate piece on the same subject. The Boy Can't Help It Guy Trebay September 22, 1987 There's no longer any question t ... More >>

From The Crap Archives: Finger Plays for Little Folk

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Finger Plays For Little Folk Author: Janet Jackson Publisher: David C. Cook Publishing Company, Elgin, Ill ... More >>

LADY MIX-A-LOT

Dynamo pumps out a medley of entertainment

"Live": Janet Jackson's Rained-Out Pseudo-Event

Mariah Carey's Failed Adjustment

Night Becomes Eclectic

Brooklyn melting-pot supergroup Volney Litmus keeps the fire and the conversation going

Stuff You Need to Know About to Avoid Ostracism

Lose Control

Ms. Jackson works hard but still can't sound truly effortless

Music

What you need to know this week to avoid ostracism

Carrie Underwood and John Legend Ruin the NBA All-Star Game Halftime Show

The Green Door in the Floor

Show me the money shot: How porn made itself at home in America's living room

Bleep This!

Howard Stern, rule-breaker, heads for the land of no rules

Open Season

Two one-world bands converge for 2004's protest summer

But It's Really Good Sex

Musical pornographer Janet Jackson shocks a stupefied America into outrage and erection

NY Mirror

Quartet from Brooklyn stick out necks and show their sex

Another single released, this time without Justin's help

NY Mirror

Horoscope

Kiss and Tell

Listings

NY Mirror

New Abstract

Beach Blanket Surgery

Summertime Blues

Risqué Rope Skipping