I'M BACK (briefly): Just asked a fellow co-worker (another black female who also grew up in the 80's, is less than one year younger then me, but listened to mainly R&B music) who is the Queen of Pop? She said without hesitation, MADONNA. She then asked me who else could it possibly be, noting that Madonna was the only person she ever heard referred to as such, and when I said others (probably much younger than us) are trying to say it was or is Janet, she was surprised. She agreed that Michael was always considered the KOP and Madonna was considered the QOP. I think it's just some of the younger generation African American Janet fans trying to consider her the QOP which narrows the group even further than I stated above.