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Summary: Lipsynchapaloza!
Review: Wow.... its not only Britney who doesnt know the words to her own songs enough to lipsynch the right lines or times, but at least Janet re-recorded her vocals to SEEM live. Its a pretty entertaining show. It at times gets boring (alright, whymsical medly) but has its high points. Its a very good performance. In my opinion the best out of the three HBO chicks who did a concert (madonna janet and britney)Janets amazing outfits and interesting choices for the set make this show worth the pricy-for-a-dvd cost.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I saw the live show in person prior to Hawaii, in Hampton, VA. I was blown away. This women is amazing. The energy, the dancing, the energy. LOTS of energy. Nothing but the real thing will compare, but if you missed that then this is a must have.
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Summary: Hell YEAH!
Review: Awesome concert DVD. Janet's professionalism onstage is at an all-time high. Its amazing to see Janet so focused and in control while giving us everything she's got. The Would You Mind compilation is worth the price of the DVD alone. Its a must-have for Janet fans. I can't wait to see what she's gonna do next
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Summary: This is more than just a concert, it's a visual masterpiece!
Review: Janet Jackson has always been one of my all-time favourite female artists. Her style, persona and songs have always struck a chord with me like no other singer (except maybe Britney). Throughout 2001 there were some absolutely stunning tours - from Britney's Dream Within A Dream Tour (Live From Las Vegas), to 'NSync's Popodyssey and through onto Madonna's Drowned World Tour (without a doubt the most popular tour of the year). Janet Jackson's All For You was also another tour to add to this list of superb 2001 concerts. HBO reserved the rights to broadcast the concert in full in Febraury 2002, and ratings went through the roof. This performance is Live In Hawaii from Hawaii (duh!) where Janet performs to 40,000 adoring fans in an open-air arena.The concert opens with Janet running topless across the sands of Hawaii and under a tropical waterfall. We then see the words "Janet Jackson - All For You" appear in gold on the screen before Janet appears on a huge podium in the centre of the stage. She wiggles those sexy hips to the superb Far Eastern beat of Come On Get Up before singing, dancing, grooving and bouncing her way through two awesome performances of You Ain't Right and All For You. The first three tracks are all from her latest superb album, All For You. Ms Jackson then goes back in the time machine to the superb, classic and undeniably unforgettable Love Will Never Do (Without You) - one of my all-time fave Janet songs! She then struts her stuff through the electrifying Trust A Try, the superb rock anthem from All For You. The costumes are awesome and the dance routines are mind-blowingly speedy! Janet then slows things down for the performances of the superb ballads Come Back To Me and Let's Wait Awhile. The former is my all-time favourite Janet ballad while the latter is an absolute Janet classic! The audience is entranced by the goddess that is Janet Jackson as she moves slowly to the smoochy ballads. They're soon up and grooving as Janet belts out five classics from the 80's and 90's in the form of Again, Runaway, Miss You Much, When I Think Of You and Escapade. As usual there's all the superb and epic stage sets to please her loyal fans and the superbly choreographed dance moves. Janet then moves onto a high energy and sexually charged performance of Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You) with a special-guest appearance by Missy Elliott. The audience is desperate for more, but has already had enough entertainment to last them their entire lives...and Janet's only halfway through! All For You continues in spectacular fashion with the brilliant performance to Got 'Til It's Gone. After this Janet belts out probably her most popular hit in the US ever - That's The Way Love Goes. No.1 for a whopping 10 weeks in 1993, it's now an international anthem. Janet knows this and sings her heart out and really gets the audience going by letting them fill in the gaps for bits she purposely leaves out. Up next is a trip down memory lane with a superb melody of What Have You Done For Me Lately, Control and Nasty from her legendary 1986 album Control. "Now control THIS!" screams Janet before breaking out into an eye-popping dance routine - one of many in the whole show. Alright is up next, the superb and incredibly funky single from 1989's Rhythm Nation. Janet only gets more sexier with her risque performance of Would You Mind - taken from the All For You album and definitely the rudest song of Janet's entire career! A lucky man is picked from the audience as Janet sings this highly erotic song to him - he seems to be enjoying himself! After this Janet funks thinks up and performs three massive and heavy tracks - If, Black Cat and Rhythm Nation. I had never heard If until this concert, but can now say it's one of the best and catchiest Janet songs ever! Black Cat just simply swings with adrenaline with its heavy guitar riffs and fast-paced dance moves. Rhythm Nation, however, has to be the best performance of the whole evening; Janet enters dressed in a slinky black leather outfit with a mysterious mask covering her eyes. She belts the song out and dances her butt off with her legion of dancers as the huge screen behind her changes colours to purples and reds to complement the night sky of Hawaii. Doesn't Really Matter and Someone To Call My Lover are up next, followed by the superb and upbeat finale in the form of Together Again. The colours on the stage are superb and the fireworks that are set off from the top of the arena makes the whole thing look absolutely stunning, not to mention massive as a helicopter shot shows just exactly how many people are packing the arena. OVERALL GRADE: 10/10 As well as this superb concert, secret cameras film Janet changing from each costume in-between songs at a speedy rate - which is bound to raise the pulses of many a male fan! Janet belts out a total of 26 classic songs - more than twice the amount of what Britney sang on her Dream Within A Dream Tour. What's more, Janet does NOT mime in this concert - you can tell because she's always out of breath towards the end of the song. There are not many artists who can do all this while dancing at a literally supersonic speed! All For You is one of the most creative and imaginative concert tours of 2001 and to miss out would be a great shame. Buy it now from Amazon!
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Summary: No Other Artist Comes Close!!
Review: I was one of very few Euro fans who got to see Janet's All For You Tour in the States last October, after Janet cancelled shows following the events of 9/11. Was it worth a long trek from Belfast to Fort Lauderdale? Here's the evidence. Ms Jackson, the most consistently electric & diverse performer of the last 2 decades delivers an even more stunning and euphoric musical odyssey than 1998's truly superb Velvet Rope Tour (which I saw in London). Set on the final night of the tour in Hawaii, this show romps through a collection of janet's hits from Control up to All For You, with plenty of surprises along the way. Starting out with 3 more edgy dance-cuts from All For You, Janet & her entourage of streetwise dancers prance their way through some hot moves, my personal fave being You Ain't Right, but also with a dazzling entry on stage & a tight breakdown to All For You. Love Will Never Do, perhaps Janet's greatest single is as timeless as ever, as Miss Janet shares the stage with her fans. Chilling. My fave track off All For You is a rock-opera type affair entitled Trust A Try, performed in existentialist masks & captivates you visually & audibly with heavy guitars, banging chorus & aggressively hypnotic dancing. We also are given a series of medleys which enable Janet to cover the canon of her career, while giving fans a full value for money experience. The ballads section covers 3 of Janet's greatest ballads including Come Back To Me which wasn't performed since Rhythm Nation tour -her voice is strong. The Escapade Medley continues the carnivalesque medleys set in the janet. tour. Some fans complain that there is no variety, but it condenses some of the songs perfectly - Miss You Much, Runaway, Escapade. My fave is the Control Medley, with an edgier chorus to WHYDFML, as also sung during the janet. tour. Nasty roks - big style. As fresh as it sounded in 1986. Still a fave. The final medley section is the chill-down smashes, TTWLG & Got Til Its Gone - janet & her singers. No visuals, the songs are there alone & you feel the groove. The audience laps it up & you appreciate the brilliance of these songs. Missy Elliott's inclusion in Son Of A Gun is the sole deviation from the Janet-Carly stand-alone performance throughout the tour. The audience laps it up & makes this DVD even more precious for those who got to see the tour. The saucy Would You Mind is a true riot, with janet in a very tight, hot cat-suit selecting a lucky male member (every pun included) from the audience for a suggestive 1-2-1 session on a gurny. Janet's selection of a male fan from the audience has always been a fave on her tours & this DVD not only shows you how on-the-tip janet is regarding her sexuality, but gives some fans a reminder of their few not-so-private moments with janet in front of thousands of fans, lol. The rest of the show is hot - mega hits Someone To Call, Together Again & Doesn't Really Matter help the fans chill, while Black Cat & if (which were omitted from half the tour because of exhaustion) are included again - I didn't see these songs performed and are two of my faves - they remind you just what a performer Miss Janet is. Exotic, Hypnotic & Erotic, and much, much more. The lady is a Superstar, this DVD testifies why!
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Summary: Great show.... in person and on DVD :)
Review: I went to this show back in February with a friend, but was not initially going to go. I enjoyed it immensely, and the fact it was being filmed was great also! I had never been to a filmed concert before. One thing that you may not know, is that at the actual show, things were kinda messed up. The whole opening sequence went wrong when the dancers came down on the elevated platforms. When they got to the bottom, Janet et al. just walked off stage! We then had to wait a bit, and a guy came out and explained they were going to do it again! It was rather funny, but I'm sure Janet was mad! So what you see on the dvd, was actually a spliced version of two different opening sequences since the pyrotechnics did not occur the second time around. Anyway, the concert was ace, and I would recommend this DVD to anyone into Janet or the current state of Pop/R&B music today.
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Summary: Of course I'm giving it a five star
Review: It should be a 10 star, but it only goes up to five. I love Janet very much, so of course she gets the highest bid from me. I went to see her "All For You" concert at MSG, and I had the best time. So when she was in Hawaii for the last stop I wanted to be there also, but since it was impossible, I just watched it on HBO. I can't wait for her new album to come out so I can be the first to get it. But if you haven't seen this yet, you must make it a priority to do so. You won't regret it.
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Summary: notJUSTaCONCERT!!!
Review: this DVD shows janet's HBO speacial which aired in feb. ,2002.
however, this isn't just the concert. it has about 5 or 6 different performences of WOULD YOU MIND, a behind the scenes look at the ALL FOR YOU TOUR, and a really cool photo gallery with pictures from the ALL FOR YOU TOUR PROGRAM. It even comes with a little MINI-ALL FOR YOU TOUR PROGRAM. so people go out and buy this DVD!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Gorgeous
Review: I just got this DVD in today and watched it. I have to say that I gave it 4 stars and not 5 based on the fact that she does do a few old songs and that is great. I mean maybe remixed it a little or something. Everything she did with her new stuff was AWESOME! I mean the outfits, the dancing, the music, the singing was just wonderful! Anyways, she is a fabulous performer and I would highly recommend buying this. So buy it!
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Summary: Janet is a goddess but the DVD...
Review: She is, as we all know, amazing and brillant in her concerts. Th only concern I have is that the DVD sound is kind of bad. I hear nothing but the audience during her backstage extras. Now, I don't know if this is maybe my set up but does anyone else have this problem with the DVD? Please write a one liner and post if you have the same problem. Janet we love you! P.S. Where is Tina Landon (one of her original dancers and choerographer?) I missed her!
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