Of Course Janet Jackson Stole the Show at the Billboard Awards
Entertainment
For her first televised performance in almost a decade at this year’s Billboard Awards, Janet Jackson audaciously performed one of the most sexually explicit songs from her janet. album, which turned 25 on Friday. After tearing through “Nasty,” from 1986’s Control (with a bit of instrumental interpolation from the Janet deep cut “When We Ooo” sprinkled in), Janet launched into “Throb,” a club smash that Janet and her dancers famously tore down the SNL house with in 1994. A house track with orgasmic moans and a charged refrain at its conclusion (“Boom boom boom until noon noon noon”), it was a particularly bold choice given the trouble Janet found herself and her carer in after she dared to express her sexuality at Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004.