Janet Jackson To Be Inducted Into The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

[JHan]

6. I just read up some more on how Les Moonves sabotaged her career...

just wow.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/les-moonves-janet-jackson

Moonves essentially blacklisted Jackson from Viacom, the report says: he ordered all of the company’s radio stations, as well as its television networks VH1 and MTV, not to play Jackson’s music. Per HuffPost, that decision tanked album sales for Jackson’s 2004 album, Damita Jo, which went on sale only a month after the Super Bowl. Even seven years later, Moonves reportedly hadn’t let the incident go; Ali reports that when Jackson signed a book deal with CBS-owned book publisher Simon & Schuster, he began fuming anew—and demanded to know, “How the fuck did she slip through?” He reportedly told one source that he would retaliate against whoever was responsible for the decision, but it’s unclear whether that ever happened.