Janet Jackson said she plans to release new music after a seven-year wait between studio albums in the cover of her new story for Essence.
The 56-year-old pop and R&B legend signaled that there might be a bit of a wait for her die-hard fans, as her ‘number one job’ right now is ‘motherhood’.
The singer-songwriter, who shares 5-year-old son Eissa Al Mana with ex-husband Wissam Al Mana, tried to spend time with the child while he was still young, before she returned to the recording studio.
Mom first: Janet Jackson, 56, signaled in her Essence cover story on Wednesday that she’s releasing new music in the near future, but she’s focused on parenting first her son Eissa Al Mana, five years old; seen May 15 in Las Vegas
“Even though it’s something I absolutely love, it’s still my job, my job,” explains Janet. ‘There will be music at some point. When exactly? I can’t say yet, but there will be. I love it too do not do it. This is all I know. ‘
She added, ‘There are so many things that I want to do – but my number one job is being a mother.’
Janet was interviewed in May, shortly before her 56th birthday and her appearance at the Billboard Music Awards on May 15, where she paid tribute to her longtime friend. Mary J. Blige.
The All For You singer has been based in London in recent years, as she is raising her young son there.
Can’t be stopped: ‘Someday there will be music. When exactly? I can’t say yet, but there will be. I love it too do not do it. This is all I know,’ she said; 2011 picture
Janet seems optimistic about her musical career, even if life circumstances make it stand out for a while longer.
‘It’s funny because I see fans asking, “When are we going to get the Black Diamond?” “Would you please let go?” Sometimes things happen that you didn’t expect to happen and you have to figure things out – or you’re in a void in your life when you have to take a step back and rest for a minute,’ she said. .
Because the recent hitmaker’s musical claims are few and far between, she’s tried to clear up some of the misconceptions people tend to have about her.
“When it comes to my personal life, I think my goodness with weakness,” she said. ‘When it comes to my professional life, I would say I wouldn’t like to hear the word ‘no’. Especially women, and someone says to you, “No, you can’t because…” ‘
Family: She added, ‘There are so many things that I want to do – but my number one job is being a mother’; 2018 pictures in Bilbao, Spain
The conversation turned to a documentary series about Janet released in January, which she produced with her brother Randy Jackson.
Even after looking back at all she’s accomplished throughout her career, the performer says she’s not one to take professional accomplishments too seriously.
‘I’ve never been one to display my awards. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just not me. Being able to wake up and see my baby another day. The space that I could be in at that moment in my soul. What I have achieved in myself. How far have I come from that child to the woman I am today. It was successful,’ she explained.
‘If you come to my house, you’ll never know – if you don’t know who I am – that I am an entertainer. I don’t have an award on my wall. ‘
Janet isn’t just exaggerating, when she says she keeps all her awards in a ‘storage’ to keep them out of public view.
‘I just save them for my kids, whatever he wants to do with them. I remember when Jermaine [Dupri] and I was together, and he said to me, “Where are your Grammys? Why don’t you have your Grammys?” So I brought them in, because he wanted them out, because so that’s what I did,’ she recalls. ‘Just the Grammys, nothing else. After we went our separate ways, they went back to the barn and haven’t been out since.’
Not interested: Janet admits she doesn’t care about the awards and keeps her prizes in storage. “I just save them for my kids, whatever he wants to do with them,” she says; seen in 2019 in NYC
In her interview, Janet shared her brief feelings when looking back at the covers of some of her classic LPs, including her 1986 album Control, which influenced the emerging new jack swing genre. develop.
But when the interview questions whether Michael Jackson’s sister — and her producers and co-writers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis — is getting the recognition it deserves for the album, she doesn’t seem to mind. don’t worry about that.
‘I’ve heard Jimmy and Terry tell me we haven’t. I’ve heard fans tell me we haven’t. Other artists have said the same thing. That never crossed my mind,’ she shared.
‘It doesn’t matter to me, whether I do or not, to be honest. It’s really music that touches people and how it impacts their lives that’s important to me. It is not a compliment. Honestly, I don’t think about that stuff. ‘
No fuss: She said she didn’t care if her 1986 LP Control (pictured) had an effect. ‘It doesn’t matter to me, whether I do or not, to be honest. It’s really music that touches people and how it impacts their lives that’s important to me’
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