 | That’s the Way Love GoesJanet Jackson |
Writer(s): James Harris III, Terry Lewis, Charles A. Bobbit, James Brown, Janet Jackson, John Starks, Fred Wesley Jr. (see lyrics here) Released: April 20, 1993 First Charted: April 23, 1993 Peak: 18 BB, 110 BA, 18 CB, 14 GR, 16 RR, 16 AC, 110 RB, 2 UK, 16 CN, 11 AU, 23 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, 0.21 UK, 3.0 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 1.0 radio, 25.9 video, 134.78 streaming |
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About the Song:In the ‘80s and ‘90s, Janet Jackson was one of the few artists who could compete with big brother Michael’s chart success. Her 1986 Control album was the first in history to produce five top-5 hits. RC She then outdid herself with a record-breaking seven top-ten hits, RC including four #1s, on the follow-up, 1989’s Rhythm Nation. 1993’s janet. produced six more top-10 hits, including the #1 lead single, “That’s the Way Love Goes.” The song had a longer reign than any other chart-topper released by the Jackson family. SG Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, longtime producers with Janet, showcased a style where “samples blurred together seamlessly into a smooth, heady tower of…spacious, luxurious sound.” SG It was a bold choice as a lead single. It’s a “low-key song” SG that’s “pretty brazen in its sexuality” SG and “doesn’t really jump out of the speakers.” SG It is “slow-motion strut-music” SG that “works less as a song and more as an extended groove…but it’s a gorgeous, multifaceted groove.” SG That groove owes a debt to “the drum intro from the Honey Drippers’ “Impeach The President,” a 1973 protest-funk obscurity that went on to become one of the most-sampled tracks of all time.” SG Like many early ‘90s hits, the song is also built on a loop of a classic James Brown song – in this case, 1974’s “Papa Don’t Take No Mess.” Janet listened to it while on Christmas vacation and loved it. She wanted to use it for “That’s the Way Love Goes,” which was initially intended to be a breakup song. The she “had a late-night epiphany and decided that it should be a seduction song instead.” SG Jimmy Jam said, “We were all in very happy relationships, and we were in love, not only with the people we were in relationships with but with life in general. We’d been very successful professionally, and I think we were all feeling very satisfied with our personal lives, and that came out on the album… janet. was about a confident, sexy woman in touch with her feminine side. That was what she was feeling at that time, so our job was to enhance that.” FB Resources:
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