The Velvet Rope Tour: Live in Concert
Live video album from Janet Jackson's 1998 tour.
The Velvet Rope: Live in Concert is a live video album by American singer Janet Jackson, released on March 9, 1999, by Eagle Rock Entertainment. The concert was broadcast live on HBO in the United States, reaching an audience of 15 million viewers in the US alone.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- Janet Jackson
- Released
- 9 March 1999
- Recorded
- October 11, 1998
- Venue
- Madison Square Garden, New York City
- Genre
- R&B; pop
- Length
- 121 minutes
- Label
- Eagle Rock Entertainment
- Director
- David Mallet
Facts from the source article.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Program Start; Velvet Rope | Janet Jackson, James Harris III, Terry Lewis, René Elizondo Jr., Malcolm McLaren, Trevor Horn, Mike Oldfield | |
| 2 | If | Jackson, Lewis, Harris | |
| 3 | You | Jackson, Harris, Lewis, Elizondo, Harold Brown, Sylvester Allen, Morris Dickerson, Howard Scott, Leroy Jordan, Lee Oskar, Charles Miller | |
| 4 | Let's Wait Awhile"/"Again | Jackson, Harris, Lewis, Melanie Andrews | |
| 5 | Control"/"The Pleasure Principle"/"What Have You Done for Me Lately"/"Nasty (Control medley) | Jackson, Lewis, Harris, Monte Moir | |
| 6 | Throb | Jackson, Lewis, Harris | |
| 7 | Escapade"/"When I Think of You"/"Miss You Much"/"Runaway"/"Love Will Never Do (Without You) (Escapade medley) | Jackson, Lewis, Harris | |
| 8 | Alright | Jackson, Lewis, Harris | |
| 9 | I Get Lonely | Jackson, Lewis, Harris, Elizondo | |
| 10 | Any Time, Any Place | Jackson, Lewis, Harris | |
| 11 | Rope Burn | Jackson, Lewis, Harris, Elizondo | |
| 12 | Black Cat | Jackson | |
| 13 | What About | Jackson, Lewis, Harris, Elizondo | |
| 14 | Rhythm Nation | Jackson, Lewis, Harris | |
| 15 | Special | Jackson, Lewis, Harris, Elizondo | |
| 16 | That's the Way Love Goes | Jackson, Harris, Lewis, Fred Wesley, Charles Bobbit, John Starks, James Brown | |
| 17 | Got 'til It's Gone | Jackson, Lewis, Harris, Elizondo, Roberta Mitchell, Kamaal Ibn Fareed | |
| 18 | Go Deep | Jackson, Lewis, Harris, Elizondo | |
| 19 | Together Again / End Credits | Jackson, Lewis, Harris, Elizondo |
Special Features
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Filmography | |
| 2 | Discography |
Track listing from the source article.
Background and release
On October 11, 1998, Janet Jackson performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City as part of her Velvet Rope Tour. That concert was broadcast live on HBO across the United States, drawing 15 million American viewers, and later aired internationally on the same network. During the song "Got 'til It's Gone," rapper Q-Tip joined her onstage. For "Rope Burn," Jackson brought an unsuspecting fan up from the audience and playfully teased them, including a lap dance.
In Hong Kong, censorship rules forced the removal of both "Rope Burn" and "Any Time, Any Place" from the release, which instead came out as a 17-track double VCD. The full show was issued that same year on DVD, LaserDisc, and VHS, earning a Platinum certification from the RIAA. It received four Emmy nominations: Outstanding Choreography, Outstanding Lighting Direction, Outstanding Music Direction, and Outstanding Technical Direction/Camera/Video for a Special, winning the last one in 1999.
The NAACP Image Awards also nominated it for Outstanding Performance in a Variety Series/Special and Outstanding Variety Series/Special. The concert was re-released as a standalone DVD in 2001, 2004, and 2006. It was also packaged with Live in Hawaii as a double-disc set in the US and Europe on November 14, 2004, and again in Europe in 2005 with different cover art.
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