This is very unfortunate! If it's because of health issues preventing Janet from continuing on with this tour, than we ought to be more sympathetic about that. We don't know what the status is of her current condition. If the tour is on the back burner due to a controlling husband, that's a different story. That would upset me. I can also understand it frustrating others, however, I can't sit here and try to form an opinion about what's unknown. It would be senseless! Of course, people want to make this about filling seats, but again, we don't know if there was any problem doing so! Dates have been postponed before and this UK leg haven't been the most organized. I can see all the contributing factors if that is the case.

What I do know is that Janet's done it all before! Yea, that hasn't been done by Janet is some time now, but people forget that we're talking about an artist that was a touring force! Janet has 3 tours listed inside the top 10 biggest tours of the 90's (TVR, Janet and Rhythm Nation). She was only outdone by Cher! You can't successfully blaze through a world tour 3/4 times and be labelled local.

Also I see so many people shooting Janet's achievements down. Unbreakable (the album) didn't slay the charts for 20 weeks, but what album by any of her peers have? Janet has been on a rough journey in the last 12 years (the industry's been very cold to her since SB). It's amazing that in spite of that, she's one of the VERY FEW female artists from her time that sold over 100K (pure sales) and earned a #1 album... Oh, 29 YEARS LATER AFTER HER GROUNDBREAKING CONTROL ALBUM! With no promo! If you look at the numbers we've seen many of these 80/90's divas pull in, you'll see the challenge in achieving the feat that Janet has.

Celine (Loved Me Back to Life) - 77K
Mariah Carey (Chanteuse) - 58K
Toni Braxton (Love, Marriage, Divorce) - 67K
Brandy (Two Eleven) -65K
Mary J Blige (London Sessions) - 55K
Britney (Britney Jean) - 107K
JLO (A.K.A) - 33K
Alanis Morissette (Havon and Bright Lights) - 33K

I say all this, not to say that Janet is better than any of these women, but that she did accomplish something that's very difficult for anyone from her era (AFTER the blacklisting). Janet was only outdone by Madonna recently, but Madge has been branded for the last decade as the "motha" of the industry (while others seem to have been thrown away). People are always so quick to shade, but don't look at the bigger picture.