As the release of a new album approaches, the star of the 1980s is the subject of a documentary, the first two parts of which are broadcast tonight on Canal+ Docs. But the hot topics remain skimmed over.
Since the beautiful strange album of 2015 (Unbreakable) where she started singing like her brother Michael, we have almost no news of Janet Jackson, the Beyoncé of the 1980s. Produced and channeled by the star herself, the four-part documentary Janet Jackson, which tries to bring it back to light before the launch of a new album, is only for those that this long eclipse will have plunged into an intolerable state of craving.
After the (light) emotion of a trip with the star to the suburbs of Detroit, to visit the childhood home where she took her first steps when her brothers burned the TV sets, the revelations are rare, the story and confessions, carefully calibrated. For fans, Janet Jackson is retracing her path to a golden age when she, like Madonna, invented herself as a woman of power and a mad dancer in an industry locked down by men, but she remains on the edge of the hottest topics. .
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The tyrannical nature of his impresario father is evacuated in a few words (“He was tough, but I owe him my career”), just like the vertiginous disorder sown by Michael, which she defends with lip service. It was not until the fourth episode that she evoked the scandal caused by a furtively bare breast during the 2004 Superbowl show, which was enough to break her career. No analysis of the absurdity of the incident at a time when her young competitors compete in lewdness, the simple regret of having consented to an apology under the pressure of the time and we move on. There remain a few personal archives, family and behind-the-scenes films that give a little spice to this very quiet biographical saga.
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