Janet Jackson remains in an oversexed, arrested stage of musical development You have to give Janet Jackson credit for doggedly sticking to her pleasure principle after all these years. No matter how mind-numbingly banal her sexually explicit lyrics have become, no matter how tired her clothes-optional promotional campaigns have gotten, Miss Jackson-If-You're-Nasty refuses to change the musical formula she apparently believes still works for her. But recent sagging album sales may show that fans feel differently. She's not the only aging pop maverick caught in a vortex of cheesy sexed-up music and images (hello, Madonna and Mariah Carey). But Jackson, whose Rock Witchu World Tour stops at Washington's Verizon Center on Wednesday night, has unfairly caught much of the mainstream media's scorn for adhering to one of modern...
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