The Pleasure Principle (song)
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| Single by Janet Jackson from the album Control |
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| B-side | "Fast Girls" (U.S.) | ||||
| Released | May 12, 1987 (U.S.) June 1987 (UK) |
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| Format | 7" single, 12" maxi single | ||||
| Genre | R&B, dance-pop, new jack swing | ||||
| Length | 4:57 | ||||
| Label | A&M | ||||
| Writer(s) | Monte Moir | ||||
| Producer | Monte Moir | ||||
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"The Pleasure Principle" is the sixth single from Janet Jackson's third studio album, Control (1986).
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[edit] Song information and music video
The song is an "independent woman" anthem often about love gone wrong built around a dance beat.
Jackson goes into a warehouse to practice her dancing. In one of her most memorable and influential videos, Jackson gives a spectacular solo dance performance, while singing about the ever-popular pleasure principle. The music video's mic stand and chair sequences have raised the bars for later music videos and would be taken as inspiration for:
- Ciara featuring Missy Elliott — "1, 2 Step"
- Ciara — "Promise"
- Karyn White — "Secret Rendevous"
- Britney Spears — "Stronger"
- Beyoncé featuring Slim Thug — "Check on It"
- Pussycat Dolls featuring Snoop Dogg — "Buttons"
- Cassie — "Me & U"
For the music video, the Shep Pettibone Mix was used. It won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography in 1988 and was nominated for the Soul Train Award for Female Single of the Year and won her two American Music Awards in 1988.
During MTV's first ever mtvICON in 2001, Jackson was paid tribute by singers Pink, Usher, and Mýa. Mýa paid tribute by re-enacting Jackson's choreography from the video, most noticeably the mirror scene.
On April 27, 2007, the video was made available on iTunes Store.
[edit] Chart performance
Released in 1987, "The Pleasure Principle" peaked at number fourteen in the U.S. that summer, becoming Jackson's sixth Top 20 single on the Billboard Hot 100; it also hit number one on the R&B singles chart becoming her fifth to top that chart. She was the first to do this. Since "The Pleasure Principle" peaked at number fourteen, it became the only song released from Control in the U.S. to miss the top 5 of the Hot 100. Outside the U.S. the single would be make it into the top twenty, at most markets. The single was the thirty-fourth biggest Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks single of 1987.
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1987) | Peak position |
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| Belgian Singles Chart | 15 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 15 |
| UK Singles Chart | 24 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 14 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play | 1 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 10 |
[edit] Official versions/remixes
- 1986/1987
- Album Version (4:57)
- A capella (4:23)
- 7" Vocal (4:19)
- Long Vocal Remix [The Shep Pettibone Mix] (7:23) [appears on Control The Remixes UK Edition]
- The Shep Pettibone Mix (6:58) [appears on Control The Remixes UK Edition]
- Dub Edit (4:19)
- 12" Dub (6:58)
- 1996
- Design of a Decade edit (4:13)
- D.T.'s Twilo Dub (9:00)
- Nuflava Vocal Dub (7:04)
- Legendary Club Mix (8:15)
- Legendary Radio Mix (4:17)
- Banji Dub (6:53)
| Preceded by "Head to Toe" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam |
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single June 6, 1987 – June 13, 1987 |
Succeeded by "Diamonds" by Herb Alpert |
| Preceded by "Fake" by Alexander O'Neal |
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one single August 8, 1987 |
Succeeded by "Jam Tonight" by Freddie Jackson |
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