Video: Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation - Staples Center

I've been watching videos from Janet Jackson's tour and getting kinda sad—thanks to Janet's oversexed listlesssness, lip-syncing, and absolutely awful outfits—but as one who's always willing to give people who have made some of my favorite records the benefit of the doubt, I figured I'd let people who were actually at the show weigh in on the evening. So here's a special edition of The Last Word, in which we bundle together the kickers of new-music reviews, devoted to writeups of her show earlier this week at the Staples Center in Los Angles: [...]