Trivia / Janet Jackson

• Banned in China: On its release, The Velvet Rope was banned in Singapore for its themes about homosexuality and other sexually explicit themes. The ban was upheld in 2001 when All For You also got banned there for similar reasons.
• Better Export for You: "Start Anew" was recorded for the Japanese market and is present on the first Japanese pressings of Control.
• Creator Backlash: In 2004, she admitted that she regretted recording "Feel It Boy", Beenie Man's duet with her due to his association with homophobia, considering her status as a gay icon.
• Creator Breakdown: The Velvet Rope by her suffering from depression that led the production of the album to take nearly longer than usual to get it to be completed.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The sales for her first two albums from the Pre-"Control" era, most notably Dream Street, were extremely low enough to prevent any of those songs from being used in the majority of her world tours (excluding her 2008 tour, Rock Witchu). As such, these albums are harder to acquire than the others in her discography as its sold less.
• Production Posse: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have been her regular production and songwriting team since the mid-80s.
• Schedule Slip: Janet announced a tentative date for her twelfth studio album Black Diamond, and an accompanying world tour in 2020, but the COVID-19 Pandemic forced her to cancel the tour, and the album's release date is now currently up in the air
• What Could Have Been: During an appearance on TRL, she claimed that one of her next singles was going to be a song from All For You called "Trust a Try," which never happened. Quite a few were disappointed, since the song (and the performance of it she had on her tour) were pretty damn cool.
  • Heck, All for You has countless of this:
    • Three songs were written and recorded for the album but were ultimately given to other artists. "Boys" and "I'm a Slave 4 U" would go on to be big hits for Britney Spears, while "What It Is" would be given to Busta Rhymes, who recorded it as a duet with Kelis for his album Genesis.
    • Basement Jaxx were offered to co-produce the album but they declined though they would collaborate with her on songs for her following album Damita Jo, but said songs didn't make it to the final cut.
    • A remix of "Someone to Call My Lover" featuring Outkast was planned for the single release, but her record label opted to go with the So So Def remix featuring Jermaine Dupri instead.
    • Jackson planned to collaborate with Aaliyah in a song that would be included in both All for You and the latter's self-titled third album but scheduling conflicts prevented this from happening.
    • "Nasty" was going to be reworked into "Nasty Girl 2000" as a collaboration with Missy Elliott with additional vocals from Aaliyah but it never materialised.
    • She even wanted to collaborate with Robbie Williams as well as potential collaborations with Dallas Austin, Swizz Beatz, Diddy, Missy Elliott, Teddy Riley, Kandi Burruss and Darrell "Delite" Allamby, but it never came to fruition with the exceptions of Diddy and Elliott, whom she collaborated with on the remix of "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)".
    • A song titled "New Beginning" was included in initial press releases but it wasn't included on the final cut.
  • She also turned down the song, "How Will I Know", which was a Number One Hit for Whitney Houston.
  • "Runaway" was actually one of a handful of songs Jam & Lewis wrote for Janet with her brother in mind as a duet partner, but they picked "Scream" instead.