Songoftheday 7/23/19 - My girls been goin 'round talkin', they say that you been watchin' me boy I know...
from the albums janet. (1993) / Pret-A-Porter (Original Soundtrack) (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 19
Today's song(s) of the day are from Janet Jackson, whose 1993 album janet. had already spun off five top ten pop hits in America with "Any Time, Any Place", "Because Of Love", "If", and a pair of chart-toppers in "Again" and "That's The Way Love Goes". Also, two more of her songs had enough mainstream radio airplay to make the top-40 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart - the album track "Where Are You Now" and the "Anytime..." single B-side "And On And On". The sixth and final single released in America was the uptempo bubbly pop of "You Want This". Written by Janet with her producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, with prominent samples of Kool & The Gang's "Jungle Boogie" and the Supremes' "Love Child", the song had the breezy feel of earlier hits "Alright" and "When I Think Of You". Rapper MC Lyte, who features in the single version of "You Want This", also makes a cameo in the music video...
"You Want This" became the sixth top ten hit from janet in December of 1994. The song also climbed to #9 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, while the remixes of it helped the track rise to #9 on their Dance Club Play chart. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in New Zealand (#11), the UK (#14), Canada (#15), Australia (#16), and the Netherlands (#37).
Meanwhile, the "B-Side" of the CD/cassette/vinyl single was a song that wasn't from the janet album, but did show up on the soundtrack to the high-fashion film Pret-A-Porter, which also included the #1 pop hit "Here Comes The Hotstepper" from Ini Kamoze. "70's Love Groove" was a breathy slow jam that had got enough urban station airplay to climb to #45 on Billboard's R&B airplay chart, and earned the right to be listed on both the pop and soul charts...
Janet put out one more single from janet but only internationally, with two songs from it making the charts in tandem due to airplay and popularity. "Whoops Now", originally the album's unlisted coda, was a retro-style bop that went to #1 in New Zealand, while making the top ten in France (#5), Belgium (#7), Austria (#7), Poland (#7), and the UK (#9). The "flip side" rock-infused song of "What'll I Do", managed to rise to #14 in Australia all on its own.
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And here's the live version of "Miss You Much", "Alright", and "You Want This" from their State of the World tour in 2009...
Up tomorrow: Swedish pop idols are having existence issues.
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