Janet's been chasing after a "Mimi" style bounce back for 10 years now and it hasn't happened. Don't tell me that now at close to 50 she's trying to conjure up a last ditch Cher/"Believe" moment. Just let it go. The gracious thing to do would be to bow out gracefully instead of putting out more music that will tank and only further tarnish her past hit streak.

And I don't use any supposed backlash, blasting or whatever you wanna call it to excuse her failure. The truth is that Janet's music has been incredibly trite, stale, predictable and utterly lacking for years. For the past 20 years, the theme of every album is the same: she drops 30 lbs., runs around showing off her bare midriff while cooing about how "moist" she is over an album of two dozen ridiculous interludes. The Superbowl fallout that her stans cling to like a holy grail is just a handy dandy excuse; the truth is that most of the problem's been her. She doesn't know how to reinvent herself and refuses to evolve from the "I feel so sexy and free" 30 year old she was 20 years ago. She's worse than Mariah when it comes to not acting her age and wanting to be a perpetual co-ed.