Janet Jackson can take a hint, guys. With Miss J’s last two albums selling less than a million copies each (and each getting her dropped by a label), the Rhythm Nation singer may be done with the business. “Last time I heard she really didn’t want to do an album,” former producer and ex-boyfriend Jermaine Dupri told Vibe. “She wanted to just do singles every once in a while. She’s looked at the marketplace—albums are not really doing what they usually do when you put all this budget out there. Janet is just trying to figure out her landscape.”
Not that she’ll be out of the limelight entirety. After the success of Why Did I Get Married Too, we’ll still see plenty of Janet on screen. “It looks like her star power as an actress is still there,” said Dupri. “And she’s about to do the other movie [For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf] with Mariah, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg and few others. They will be shooting that in June. And then she’s performing at the Essence Festival, so she’s rehearsing for that every day. Concerts, the occasional soundtrack single, movies…as long as we still have her classic albums (Damita Jo was underrated, guys!), it looks like this won’t be too painful a retirement at all.
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