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You Want This

{{short description|1994 single by Janet Jackson}}

{{Infobox song

| name = You Want This

| cover = Janet Jackson You Want This.png

| alt =

| border = yes

| type = single

| artist = Janet Jackson featuring MC Lyte

| album = Janet

| B-side = {{ubl|"70's Love Groove"|"New Agenda"}}

| released = {{Start date|1994|10|11}}

| recorded =

| studio = Flyte Tyme Studios, Edina, Minnesota

| genre = {{hlist|New jack swing|funk{{cite magazine|first= Chuck |last= Arnold |title= Janet Jackson's 50 best songs of all time, ranked |date= May 16, 2016 |magazine= Entertainment Weekly |url= http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/16/janet-jackson-50-best-songs |access-date= August 3, 2016}}}}

| length =

  • 4:46 (single mix feat. MC Lyte)
  • 5:05 (album version)

| label = Virgin

| writer =

| producer =

  • Janet Jackson
  • Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

| chronology = Janet Jackson

| prev_title = Throb

| prev_year = 1994

| next_title = Whoops Now" / "What'll I Do

| next_year = 1995

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|utxsSg1n_SQ|"You Want This"}}}}

}}

"You Want This" is a song by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson from her fifth studio album, Janet (1993). Released as the album's seventh single (sixth and final in the US) in October 1994, the track was written and produced by Jackson and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The single version, also used in the music video directed by Keir McFarlane, featured an additional rap verse from MC Lyte. The song was listed in the book Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era (2005) by Bruce Pollock.{{cite book|title= Rock Song Index: The 7500 Most Important Songs for the Rock and Roll Era|year=2005|publisher=Routledge|edition=second|author=Pollock, Bruce|isbn=0-415-97073-3}}

Song information

Based on samples from Diana Ross & the Supremes' 1968 song "Love Child" and Kool & the Gang's 1973 song "Jungle Boogie", the song is about Jackson being told by her girls that a guy is watching and wanting her. Jackson proclaims if the guy wants to be with her, he has to work for it. The single contains two B-sides, the janet. track "New Agenda" and the then-unreleased "70's Love Groove", which also appears on 1995's janet. Remixed. In the United States, however, "70's Love Groove" is listed as a double A-side with "You Want This" on Hot 100, starting on its third week.{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YwgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA124 | title=Billboard | date=5 November 1994 }}

MC Lyte said of the song: "By that time, Janet and I were friends. It was just a matter of her asking if I wanted to do it. I was just about to go on tour with her and do her U.S. leg. Coupled with that, they asked me to do a song with her that we could perform while we were on that tour.”

Critical reception

Larry Flick from Billboard described it as "a bouncy ditty that plunges from a sample of "Love Child" by the Supremes into a rollicking jack/funk beat." He added, "The groove sparks an appealing vocal that is by turns playful and seductive."{{cite magazine|first= Larry |last= Flick |title= Single Reviews |magazine= Billboard |date= 1994-10-08 |page= 77 |accessdate= 2021-03-21 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1994/BB-1994-10-08.pdf |author-link= Larry Flick}}

Chart performance

The single peaked at number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and was moderately successful internationally, making it to the top twenty in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The single entered the UK R&B Singles chart at #2.{{Cite web | url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/r-and-b-singles-chart/19941120/114/ | title=Official R&B Singles Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company| website=Official Charts}}

Music video

The accompanying music video for "You Want This" was directed by Keir McFarlane and filmed in Desert Shores, California in August 1994. Loosely based on Russ Meyer's 1965 film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, it centers around Jackson as a female gang leader with the singer and her friends encountering two men.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNiJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177 |title = The Road Movie Book|isbn = 9781134824366|last1 = Cohan|first1 = Steven|last2 = Hark|first2 = Ina Rae|date = 2002-01-04| publisher=Routledge }} MC Lyte declared, "I was totally psyched to be in a video with Janet Jackson. The only thing I wish I did know how to do was dance [laughs]. Have I been able to dance I could have really participated."{{cite web|url=http://www.vibe.com/photo-gallery/full-clip-mc-lyte-breaks-down-her-entire-catalogue-brandy-janet-jackson-ll-cool-j-more?page%3D7 |title=Full Clip: MC Lyte Breaks Down Her Entire Catalogue (Brandy, Janet Jackson, LL Cool J & More) |access-date=September 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715091128/http://www.vibe.com/photo-gallery/full-clip-mc-lyte-breaks-down-her-entire-catalogue-brandy-janet-jackson-ll-cool-j-more?page=7 |archive-date=July 15, 2015 |date=2011-01-07 }} A black-and-white version of the video was first released to music channels, while a colorized version was released one month later. CST Entertainment Imaging Inc. was responsible for the transformation, with 30 to 40 members of the company's Color F/X division split into three shifts and worked for nearly three weeks to create this version.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49 | title=Billboard| date=1994-10-29}} Both versions are available on the 1994 video compilation janet. The colorized version is featured on the repackage of 2001's All for You as well as the 2004 DVD From Janet to Damita Jo: The Videos.

Live performances

Jackson has performed the song on five of her tours, janet. Tour, Rock Witchu Tour, the Number Ones, Up Close and Personal, Unbreakable World Tour, the State of the World Tour, the 2024 Together Again Tour, as well as her 2024–2025 Janet Jackson: Las Vegas residency. Michael Jackson would often add a vocal sample of the opening "you know you want me" line from "You Want This" in live performances of his song "Dangerous".

Track listings

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  • US 12" promo single (SPRO-12696)[http://www.discogs.com/release/459216 Janet Jackson - You Want This]
  1. Disco Theory (No Rap) – 6:16
  2. E-Smoove's Underdub – 7:21
  3. E-Smoove's House Anthem – 9:48
  4. E-Smoove's House Dub – 6:32
  • US 12" single (Y-38455)[http://www.discogs.com/release/459206 Janet Jackson - You Want This]
  1. Mafia & Fluxy Club Mix – 6:28
  2. Mafia & Fluxy Dancehall Mix – 4:31
  3. Spoiled Milk. Remix – 4:44
  4. Remix – 4:46
  5. "New Agenda" – 4:00
  6. "70's Love Groove" – 5:45
  • US promo CD single (DPRO-12696)[http://www.discogs.com/release/1033384 Janet Jackson - You Want This]
  1. E-Smoove's Anthem 7" – 4:24
  2. Smoove Soul 7" – 4:16
  3. E-Smoove's Anthem Dub – 6:32
  4. Disco Theory – 6:16
  • US promo CD single (DPRO-14212)[http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=37434 Janet Jackson You Want This USA Promo 5" CD SINGLE (37434)]
  • US CD single (V25H-38455)[http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=36102 Janet Jackson You Want This USA 5" CD SINGLE (36102)]
  1. Remix – 4:46
  2. LP Edit – 4:15
  3. Mafia & Fluxy Dancehall Mix – 4:31
  4. Spoiled Milk. Remix – 4:44
  5. "New Agenda" – 4:00
  6. "70's Love Groove" – 5:45
  • US cassette single (4Y-38466)[http://www.discogs.com/release/195837 Janet Jackson - You Want This]
  1. E-Smoove's House Anthem – 9:48
  2. Disco Theory (No Rap) – 6:16
  3. "70's Love Groove" – 5:45
  4. E-Smoove's Underdub – 7:21
  5. E-Smoove's Anthem Dub – 6:32
  6. Smoove Soul 12" – 6:20

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  • UK 12" promo single (VSTXDJ 1519)[http://www.discogs.com/release/180145 Janet Jackson - You Want This]
  1. E-Smoove's House Anthem – 9:48
  2. E-Smoove's Anthem Dub – 6:32
  3. E-Smoove's Underdub – 7:21
  4. Funk Extravaganza – 7:42
  5. Smoove Soul 12" – 6:20
  • UK 12" single (VST 1519)[http://www.discogs.com/release/146192 Janet Jackson - You Want This]
  1. E-Smoove's House Anthem – 9:48
  2. E-Smoove's Anthem Dub – 6:32
  3. E-Smoove's Underdub – 7:21
  4. Disco Theory – 6:16
  5. Smoove Soul 7" – 4:16
  • UK CD 1 (VSCDT 1519)[http://www.discogs.com/release/166437 Janet Jackson - You Want This]
  • Australian CD single (8926692)[http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=309914 Janet Jackson You Want This Australia 5" CD SINGLE (309914)]
  1. Remix – 4:46
  2. E-Smoove's Anthem 7" – 4:16
  3. Mafia & Fluxy Dancehall Mix – 4:31
  4. Spoiled Milk. Remix – 4:44
  5. Disco Theory – 6:16
  6. Funk Extravaganza – 7:42
  7. Smoove Soul 12" – 6:20
  • UK CD 2 (VSCDG/T1519)[http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=162822 Janet Jackson You Want This UK DOUBLE CD SINGLE SET (162822)]
  1. LP Edit – 4:15
  2. Mafia & Fluxy Club Mix – 6:29
  3. "70's Love Groove" – 5:45
  4. "And on and On" – 4:49
  • Japanese 3" CD single (VJDP10235)[http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=35420 Janet Jackson You Want This - Remix Japan 3" CD SINGLE (35420)]
  1. Remix – 4:46
  2. "New Agenda" – 4:00

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Official remixes

  • Album version – 5:05
  • LP edit – 4:15
  • Remix featuring MC Lyte – 4:46
  • Mafia & Fluxy Dancehall Remix – 4:31
  • Mafia & Fluxy Club Mix – 6:28
  • Disco Theory (No Rap) – 6:14
  • Disco Theory – 6:14
  • E-Smoove's Anthem 7" – 4:24
  • E-Smoove's House Anthem – 9:43
  • E Smoove's Anthem Dub – 6:32
  • E-Smoove's Underdub – 7:21
  • Smoove Soul 7" – 4:16
  • Smoove Soul 12" – 6:20
  • Funk Extravaganza – 7:42
  • Spoiled Milk. Remix – 4:44

Charts

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=Weekly charts=

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

!align="center"|Chart (1994–95)

!align="center"|Peak
position

scope="row"|Australia (ARIA){{cite web |url=http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Janet+Jackson&titel=You+Want+This&cat=s |title=Janet Jackson – You Want This – swisscharts.com |publisher=swisscharts.com |access-date=November 29, 2008}}

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{{single chart|Canadatopsingles|15|chartid=2694|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"|Canada Contemporary Hit Radio (The Record){{cite book|last=Lwin|first=Nanda|author-link=Nanda Lwin|date=2000|title=Top 40 Hits: The Essential Chart Guide|publisher=Music Data Canada|page=140|isbn=1-896594-13-1}}

|align="center"|3

scope="row"|Canada Dance Tracks (The Record){{cite book|last=Lwin|first=Nanda|author-link=Nanda Lwin|title=The Record 1994 Chart Almanac|publisher=Music Data Canada|year=1995|page=124|isbn=1-896594-00-X}}

|align="center"|16

scope="row"|Europe (Eurochart Hot 100 Singles){{cite journal|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-12-03.pdf |title=EUROCHART HOT 100 SINGLES |journal=Music & Media |volume=11 |issue=49 |date=December 3, 1994 |access-date=May 8, 2020}}

|align="center"|54

scope="row"|Europe (European Dance Radio){{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1994/MM-1994-12-24.pdf|title=European Dance Radio Top 25|magazine=Music & Media|date=December 24, 1994|page=18|access-date=May 27, 2023}}

|align="center"|3

{{single chart|Germany|90|artist=Janet Jackson|song=You Want This|rowheader=true|songid=23332}}
scope="row"|Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Tipparade){{cite web |url=https://www.top40.nl/tipparade/1995/week-3|title=Tipparade-lijst van week 3, 1995| publisher=Dutch Top 40|access-date=May 6, 2022}}

|align="center"|2

scope="row"|Netherlands (Dutch Top 100)

|align="center"|37

scope="row"|New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)

|align="center"|11

{{single chart|Scotland|25|date=1994-11-26|artist=Janet Jackson|song=You Want This|rowheader=true|access-date=June 27, 2017}}
{{single chart|UKsinglesbyname|14|artist=Janet Jackson|song=You Want This|rowheader=true|access-date=June 27, 2017}}
{{single chart|UKdance|12|rowheader=true|date=1994-11-26|access-date=May 6, 2022}}
{{single chart|UKrandb|2|artist=Janet Jackson|song=You Want This|rowheader=true|date=1994-11-26|access-date=June 27, 2017}}
scope="row"|UK Airplay (Music Week){{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-12-03.pdf|title=Airplay|date=27 November 1994|access-date=April 30, 2023}}

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scope="row"|UK Club Chart (Music Week){{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-11-19.pdf|title=The RM Club Chart|magazine=Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental Insert)|date=November 19, 1994|page=6|accessdate=May 20, 2023}}

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{{single chart|Billboardhot100|8|artist=Janet Jackson|rowheader=true|access-date=June 27, 2017|note=with "70's Love Groove"}}
{{single chart|Billboarddanceclubplay|9|artist=Janet Jackson|rowheader=true|access-date=June 27, 2017}}
{{single chart|Billboardrandbhiphop|9|artist=Janet Jackson|rowheader=true|access-date=June 27, 2017|note=with "70's Love Groove"}}
{{single chart|Billboardpopsongs|10|artist=Janet Jackson|rowheader=true|access-date=June 27, 2017}}
{{single chart|Billboardrhythmic|6|artist=Janet Jackson|rowheader=true|access-date=June 27, 2017}}
scope="row"| US Cash Box Top 100 Singles{{cite web |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/90s/1994/CB-1994-12-24.pdf|title=Cash Box Top 100 Singles |work=Cash Box |issue=December 24, 1984|page=6 |access-date=6 July 2024}}

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=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"

!align="left"|Year-end chart (1995)

!align="center"|Position

scope="row"|US Billboard Hot 100{{cite web|url=http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1995 |title=Billboard Top 100 - 1995 |access-date=2010-08-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815124541/http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1995 |archive-date=2009-08-15 }}

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Certifications

{{Certification Table Top}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|artist=Janet Jackson|title=That's The Way Love Goes|relyear=1993|certyear=1994|award=Gold|access-date=September 3, 2023}}

{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}

References

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