APPARENTLY, JANET JACKSON IS CARRYING SOME EXTRA WEIGHT

No, we're not talking about her supposed fattening up - thank god one of the Jackson family actually looks like they have time for lunch, we reckon. No, what we're worried about is the plans for Jackson to record with Mariah Carey. It's all because Janet is dating Carey's producer, Jermaine Dupri:

"The hardest part is figuring out a song that fits both of them, because you have two different styles of artists, and the thing when you're dealing with divas is you don't want to overshadow either one, so if you were to do a song for them, it would have to work where both of them would feel they were on the same pedestal, or else someone's gonna have a problem."

To be honest, Jermaine, you're probably on a hiding to nothing with that one. Best you can do is put them in two separate rooms and get them to record two separate tunes and just slap them together on a record. Nobody's going to care overmuch.

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