Let's start with off with what trendsetting means.

trendsetter
noun
a person who leads the way in fashion or ideas.

"Feedback" and "Rock Wit U" are not trendsetting. They were a compilation of current
 L.A. dance trends. Janet's choreographer would have had to create the style of the movement to be consider a trendsetter. This is not the case.

What's new about these steps and the way they were choreographed? Take out the fact that Janet is doing it and you wouldn't have looked twice.

Janet and Madonna have been playing it safe for years. For some reason Madonna seems to have more of a worldwide appeal. I can't explain why our culture is fascinated with Madonna but we are. Her work has become less interesting to watch though.

For example:
When Madonna's released the video to "Hung Up" people were saying how different she was portraying herself. She took the dance studio lifestyle and set it in the hip-hop world

Now from her latest album comes her second single, "Give It To Me".
This beginning of this video seems kinda familiar, right?

Doesn't that seem "half-assed" to redo a video with the same opening and add some different special effects?

Janet does the "redo" video concept for almost all the of her videos for the past 3 albums. Her videos will have a large group of dancers all dancing in unison. The setting is a warehouse or a club. And the lighting is almost always dark. How is that pushing videos as an art form? Her tours have not been selling well. It's not because of her recent cancellations due to her mystery illness. It's because we have seen it. We are bored. Janet will always tour with giant screens, a metal tress, a large group of dancer's (in recent years wearing over-designed costumes), she is going to seduce some guy from the audience while he sits on a chair and she is going to sit into her hip while pointing her index finger into the audience anytime she says "you".  She rarely does new choreography for her hit songs. "If" was a cool dance but I can watch it on DVD if I want. People aren't going to spend money on a concert where there are little surprises.  

And you are telling me that this is full out?

Some might say she needed a breather. Folks, she is lip-synching. If she needs a breather then we shouldn't see her rest. Put her backstage. Play some filler video, put in a new dance sequence to highlight the dancers and be done with it.

And Lizzie, I never mentioned anywhere in this blog or comments anything about Madonna and Janet maintaining their figures. I am talking about dance not body types.