On the heels of her sixth No. 1 album “Discipline,” Janet Jackson is announcing plans for a world tour that will begin sometime in mid-September.
“We’re talking about America first,” Jackson told Billboard.com, “but I think we’re going all over. I think I’m going to go back to Australia, back to Africa, obviously go to Asia, go to Europe for sure.”
Jackson says the stage show will be “big — it’s always been big” and may incorporate some leftover ideas from a planned outing for her 2006 album “20 Y.O.” that was scrapped when her new label, Island, suggested she instead return to the studio to make another album.
At some point during the tour, Jackson hopes to release a book about her weight issues that she’s co-writing with her nutritionist, David Allen. A title and publication details are expected to be announced soon, but Jackson says the idea for the book was inspired by her fans.
“Everybody asks me — men, women — how did I do it?” she says. “Even young people will come up to me and they have an issue with their weight and they’re very concerned. So it’s basically my journey; it’s not just this sterile, weight loss and how to do it book, but my journey even from when I was a kid … being an emotional eater. It takes you through those moments in my life up ’til now and what worked for me. And hopefully within that, if it doesn’t work for them, maybe they’ll find something that does work for them and a nice place for them to be content with who they are.”
Information from Billboard.com contributed to this report
