AMAs '09: Best/Worst Performances

JANET JACKSON

Janet, in a fawn-colored suede get-up we can only describe as Sexy Daniel Boone, opened the show with a fast-moving medley of some of her greatest '80s and '90s hits — ''Control,'' ''What Have You Done for Me Lately,'' ''If'' — before segueing into ''Make Me,'' a brand-new track from the upcoming greatest-hits comp Number Ones. Proof she was singing live for real through all those dance moves? She sounded genuinely breathless. A final song, the hopeful 1997 life-after-death dance hit ''Together Again,'' couldn't help but evoke thoughts of her late brother. Grade: B+