Miss Jackson - #1's Tour

A close friend of mine called me up last month and asked me if I wanted to attend the Janet Jackson Concert. At first, I was like it would be nice, but I can't have fun when I'm job searching right now. Maybe I would see her another time.

WAIT!!! Stop the PRESSES!!! This is a once in a lifetime that I get to witness someone I admired from my teenage years. And I say no, next time?  My girlfriend soon made me realize that we have to live life in the moment, I wasn't guaranteed a next time.

Since I was a little girl, I use to watch Janet Jackson on the show "Good Times." How could we forget her role as little "Penny?" Then, one day in my teenage years, I saw the video for "Pleasure Principle". Now, I thought to myself, I could be like Janet in that video and bust out that routine, jump on the chair and off it. Well, I didn't wanna break my mother's chair or my legs, I stuck to learning the dance moves.

Finally, this past Saturday, I went with my friend to witness this once in a lifetime opportunity. As we approach the line at Radio City Hall, I hear a fan singing, "What have you done for me lately?" I start laughing and singing along, "Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah! Used to go to dinner almost every night, danced until I thought I'd thought I'd lose my breath."

Here I was finally inside Radio City Hall and very excited to see Miss Jackson. I felt like a little kid at the candy store. I use to spend hours making up dance routines to her songs. I attempted on many occasions to replicate her dance moves, but of course, they can only be one JANET.

Once we were seated inside, after the opening act, the audience was getting hyped. Finally, the curtains opened and  we saw the video to "The Best Things in Life Are Free." Oh yes, this was taking it way back, remember this song was on the soundtrack for "Mo Money" with Damon Wayans and Stacey Dash?

Then the "Rhythm Nation" video came on and man oh man, I still can't figure out the finger combination when it comes to 5, 4, 3, 2, ONE! "We are a part of the rhythm Nation." At this point and time everyone was out of their seat singing and dancing.

Finally, Janet's band all dressed in white started to take their places on stage. We all started screaming and then the moment we had all been waiting for, Miss Janet graced us with her presence and the crowd went wild! "JANET, JANET, JANET", the crowd chanted.

I couldn't believe it, I was screaming and dancing. The only issue was I had forgot my camera, so I had to take pictures with my phone camera. I really wanted to kick myself, but too late for that. It was time to sing and dance with Janet. She still got the moves, I was really impressed with the show.

She's a legend of our time! I can honestly say that her show attracted everyone young and old. It is very rare that an artist can do that. By the end of the concert, I could hardly talk and I didn't want the show to end.

Every show has a beginning and an ending, the band, the dancers and Miss Jackson entertained us for two hours.

I'm glad I got the chance to see her perform. She's now written a book called, "True You." Check it out at your local book store.