You’re never better served than by yourself, especially when the truth told there is a bit like Madonna’s face today: it’s the real one, but into which we haven’t injected wrong wrong. Janet, it’s less visible. At 55, she still has this nice little face from the youngest of the Jackson family, who was not a member of the Jackson Five.
The Jacksons were new: a son and three daughters in addition to the “Five”. Janet, the youngest, was the favourite, especially of Michael. But no jealousy, she suffered the same fate from dad, Joe, a kind of Thénardier supporter ofa rough education with whole days locked up to repeat. And when they go to play outside, one of the brothers, posted as a lookout, warns the others when the father’s car turns into the street.
Collateral victim all his life
And all this we see in Janet. The great strength of this documentary broadcast on MyCanal is that there is tons of never-before-seen personal archives, where we relive the intimacy of Janet and that of this family like no other. We find that if Michael was the King of PopJanet, it’s LA drama queen of pop. A collateral victim all her life: victim of her father who forces her to become an actress when she wants to go to college, suddenly she plays reluctantly in Fame where she appears in season 6. Re-victim of her dad when to get revenge on his sons, who saw him, he forces Janet to release an album with the clearly stated objective: do better than his sons and humiliate them on the charts.
Victim also of her first husband, whom she discovers during the wedding night that he is addicted to drugs. Victim of Michael when he is accused of taking the children, not just by the hand, and she gets her name Jackson in the face. Finally victim of Justin Timberlake as for the half-time of the Super Bowl in 2005, he “accidentally” tears off a piece of her dress, revealing her chest. Scandal: the famous “nipplegate” which will have ultra positive consequences, not for Janet’s career, but for the creators of YouTube. One of them had missed the scene, he wanted to see it again. But at the time, it was impossible on the internet. He then had the idea of transforming YouTube, which was originally a dating site that did not work at all, in a video sharing site.
Janet Jackson now lives in London with her 4-year-old son from her third marriage. She should release her twelfth album this year. Black Dimond, produced by the team that made her a global superstar in ’86. More than 100,000 million albums sold, not bad for the one who will still live forever in Michael’s shadow. In this great documentary, Mariah Carey, Whoopi Goldberg, Samuel L Jackson and all those who testify are unanimous: we all stand up for Janet.