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The baby sister of the " precious Jackson clan ", Janet Jackson has striven to distance her professional career from that of her older brother Michael and the rest of the Jackson family.

Steve Dollar of Newsday wrote that " he projects that home girl-next-door quality that belies her place as the youngest sibling in a family whose inner and outer lives have been as poked at, gossiped about, docudramatized and hard-copied as the Kennedys.

" Phillip McCarthy of The Sydney Morning Herald noted that throughout her recording career, one of her common conditions for interviewers has been that there would be no mention of Michael.

Joshua Klein wrote, " or the first half of her recording career, Janet Jackson sounded like an artist with something to prove.

Emerging in 1982 just as big brother Michael was casting his longest shadow, Jackson filled her albums not so much with songs as with declarations, from ' The Pleasure Principle ' to the radical-sounding ' Rhythm Nation ' to the telling statement of purpose, ' Control '.

" Steve Huey of Allmusic asserted that despite being born into a family of entertainers, Janet Jackson has managed to emerge a " superstar " in her own right, rivaling not only several female recording artists including Madonna and Whitney Houston, but also her brother, while " successfully her image from a strong, independent young woman to a sexy, mature adult.

" By forging her own unique identity through her artistry and her business ventures, she has been esteemed as the " Queen of Pop ".

Klein argued that " stardom was not too hard to predict, but few could have foreseen that Janet — Miss Jackson, if you're nasty — would one day replace Michael as true heir to the Jackson family legacy.