popstar is a very special project to me, and while I haven’t really begun to process my thoughts around this release yet, I want to take a moment to say THANK YOU ♥️
Thank you all so much for listening — for allowing me to share my art with you, my emotions, my feelings and my fears. I feel extremely privileged and deeply humbled to be in this position and by all of your reactions thus far. It means more to me than you will ever know
☆ POPSTAR FOREVER ☆
And this is why The Velvet Rope belongs in the conversation. Janet Jackson was already showing how far R&B could stretch without losing its identity.
I think her awareness and overall intelligence as a human as well as an artist lends itself to this. It’s refreshing to hear her speak about her artistry and the world around it because she came to us with a fully developed frontal lobe. More of this, actually.