Nasty (song)
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| Single by Janet Jackson | |||||||||
| from the album Control | |||||||||
| B-side | "You'll Never Find (A Love Like Mine)" | ||||||||
| Released | April 15, 1986  May 27, 1986 
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| Recorded | September 1985; Flyte Tyme Studios (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
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| Length | 4:03 (album version) 3:44 (7" Version) |
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| Label | A&M | ||||||||
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| Producer(s) | Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis | ||||||||
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"Nasty" is the second single from Janet Jackson's third studio album, Control (1986). Released in 1986, the single peaked at number three on Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and remains one of Jackson's signature songs. The line "My first name ain't baby, it's Janet – Miss Jackson if you're nasty" is a well-known catchphrase and has frequently been used in pop culture in various forms.
The song won for Favorite Soul/R&B Single at the 1987 American Music Awards. It ranked number 30 on VH1's 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years, number 45 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s, number 79 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Pop Songs, and number 6 on LA Weekly's Best Pop Songs in Music History by a Female. It has been included in each of Jackson's greatest hits albums Design of a Decade: 1986–1996 (1995), Number Ones (2009) and Icon: Number Ones (2010).
Britney Spears covered "Nasty", along with "Black Cat" during her ...Baby One More Time Tour and has paid homage to the song and video multiple times. The song appears in video games DJ Hero 2, Dance Central 2 (as DLC), and Lips (as DLC).
After arranging a recording contract with A&M Records in 1982 for a then sixteen-year-old Janet, her father Joseph Jackson oversaw the entire production of her debut album, Janet Jackson, and its follow-up, Dream Street (1984). Jackson was initially reluctant to begin a recording career, commenting "I was coming off of a TV show that I absolutely hated doing, Fame. I didn't want to do [the first record]. I wanted to go to college. But I did it for my father ..." and elaborated that she was often in conflict with her producers. Amidst her professional struggles, she rebelled against her family's wishes by marrying James DeBarge of the family recording group DeBarge in 1984. The Jacksons disapproved of the relationship, citing DeBarge's immaturity and substance abuse. Jackson left her husband in January 1985 and was granted an annulment later that year.
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