The Pleasure Principle (song)

The Pleasure Principle (song)

Infobox Single
Name = The Pleasure Principle


Artist = Janet Jackson
Album = Control
B-side = "Fast Girls" (U.S.)
Released = May 12 1987 (U.S.)
June 1987 (UK)
Format = 7" single, 12" maxi single
Genre = R&B, dance-pop
Length = 4:57
Label = A&M
Writer = Monte Moir
Producer = Monte Moir
Certification =
Last single = "Diamonds"
(1987)
This single = "The Pleasure Principle"
(1987)
Next single = "Making Love in the Rain"
(1987)
Misc = Extra track listing
Album = Control
Type = studio
prev_track = "You Can Be Mine"
prev_no = 4
this_track = "The Pleasure Principle"
track_no = 5
next_track = "When I Think of You"
next_no = 6
Extra track listing
Album = Design of a Decade 1986/1996
Type = compilation
prev_track = "Control"
prev_no = 9
this_track = "The Pleasure Principle"
track_no = 10
next_track = "Black Cat"
next_no = 11

"The Pleasure Principle" is the sixth single from Janet Jackson's third studio album, "Control" (1986).

ong information and video

The song is an "independent woman" anthem often about love gone wrong built around a dance beat.

Music video

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.

Jackson enters a loft 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"

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.

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.

Charts

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)

succession box
before = "Head to Toe" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
title = U.S. "Billboard" Hot Dance Club Play number-one single
years = June 6 1987June 13 1987
after = "Diamonds" by Herb Alpert
succession box
before = "Fake" by Alexander O'Neal
title = U.S. "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one single
years = August 8 1987
after = "Jam Tonight" by Freddie Jackson


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