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Control (Janet Jackson album)

Control
A young woman poses in front of a red background. She is wearing a long black button-up jacket with matching gloves, pants and headdress. The headdress flips her black hair forward over the right side of her face. To her left is a blue trapezoid that tapers downward, and reads "Janet Jackson" above it and "Control" below.
Studio album by Janet Jackson
Released February 4, 1986 (1986-02-04)
Recorded August–October 1985
Studio Flyte Tyme Productions Studio
(Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Genre
Length 41:41
Label A&M
Producer
Janet Jackson chronology
Dream Street
(1984)		 Control
(1986)		 Control: The Remixes
(1987)
Singles from Control
  1. "What Have You Done for Me Lately"
    Released: January 13, 1986
  2. "Nasty"
    Released: April 15, 1986
  3. "When I Think of You"
    Released: July 28, 1986
  4. "Control"
    Released: October 21, 1986
  5. "Let's Wait Awhile"
    Released: January 6, 1987
  6. "The Pleasure Principle"
    Released: May 12, 1987
  7. "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)"
    Released: November 25, 1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 5/5 stars
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 4/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4/5 stars
Slant Magazine 4/5 stars
The Village Voice B

Control is the third studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson, released on February 4, 1986, by A&M Records. Her collaborations with the songwriters and record producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis resulted in an unconventional sound: a fusion of rhythm and blues, rap vocals, funk, disco and synthesized percussion that established Jackson, Jam and Lewis as the leading innovators of contemporary R&B. The album became Jackson's commercial breakthrough and enabled her to transition into the popular music market, with Control becoming one of the foremost albums of the 1980s and contemporary music.

Containing autobiographical themes, a majority of the album's lyrics came as the result of a series of changes in her life: a recent annulment of her marriage to singer James DeBarge, severing her business affairs from her father and manager Joseph and the rest of the Jackson family, hiring the A&M executive John McClain as her new management, and her subsequent introduction to Jam and Lewis. The album has been praised by critics as both an artistic feat and as a personal testament of self-actualization. It has also been regarded as a template upon which numerous female artists have modeled their careers, particularly black women.

Following its release, Control became Jackson's first album to top the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States and five of its commercial singles—"What Have You Done for Me Lately", "Nasty", "Control", "When I Think of You", and "Let's Wait Awhile"—peaked within the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Music videos created to promote the singles showcased her dancing ability and became a catalyst for MTV's evolving demographics. The album went on to receive several accolades, including a nomination for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and winning Producer of the Year, Non-Classical for Jam and Lewis in 1987. It is listed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 200 Definitive Albums of All Time, in addition to being included in several publications "best of" album lists. It has been certified fivefold platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. In March 2017, Billboard ranked the album as the 4th most successful R&B album of all-time by a female and 16th most successful R&B album of all-time overall.


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