When I Think Of You - Janet Jackson 1986

[marlley08]

Wanna Dance????

[curtflirt2]

She was so cute chubby a bit here

[rufus317]

This song hit #1 on Dance Charts (for 3 weeks in Sept/Oct 1986) and hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 (2nd & 3rd weeks in October 1986)

[MrAngelito1307]

Simply great! I love this woman!

[2010metsfan]

One of her best songs- period.

[MyJamgirl]

did u notice how she moves like mj

[PrettyBrownEyes1410]

Happy Birthday Janet!!!!!!!!!!

[thefloacist]

She is so cute.

[rissa2988]

janet has the most adorable face lol even now awwww :-)))))

[sylvania08]

very cute but i wish they didn't use the CD track on top of her live performance

[capricho36]

CUANDO PIENSO EN TI NENA QUE TIEMPOS AQUELLOS MI JANET CHULA COMO SIEMPRE

[kazmjfan4eva2010]

one of janets best songs love it<3

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[ComoLaFlorr]

huh.. the background singer .. she sounds exactly like janet :P hmm lol no I LOVEE janet!!! she was sooo adorabely cute back in the day

[MeBenHalpin]

My all time favourite Janet Jackson song, i was only 18 months old when this would have first released in the UK charts in July/August 1986, but got real vision of this blasting out on the radio in the hot summer heat.

[aashumusicofficial]

Was this a really popular song in Europe?

[xoxofashiionista]

@aashumusicofficial

and America

[MrChazzybay]

i love her but she does got woopi goldberg's outfit on..

[eritreangurrl]

aww i love her cheeks when she was younger like around the control album and before that.

[27andkickinit]

I was 6 years old when this song came out I still remember this Im glad Im an 80's baby 1980 to be exact

[xKeepTheFaithx]

@27andkickinit

So luckky to be born in a time when people actually appreciated music :p

[MeBenHalpin]

@27andkickinit I was 1984, but would like to have been about your age at the time this wonderful tune was released, cos 5/6 is that kind of age, where you do start to remember events like music,television,films etc.

[centralparocker]

Not a big JJ fan but his is a dynamite song!!!!

[19caballo64]

Sorry to correct you but it wasn't in Hilversum but in the old concordia studio in Bussum

[Meowbay]

@19caballo64 Thanks, I corrected it in the description. Either way, where Studio Concordia was is real close to the Mediapark in Hilversum, to put it in perspective, it's the distance between the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York (they can see each other..).

[theudoliaccessory]

she looks just like penny on good times

omg i miss this Janet with a passion!

love the today's Janet too!

my idol

my hero

my icon

worlds LEGEND!

[Simonita15]

I Iove this song. Good times!

[blackboyrob219]

i love this performance AND this song

[Tori42]

I see MICHAEL All in dat performance!!! Get it Janet!! LOL!!

[twinsouls]

This song has always reminded me of Halloween time for some reason. Does anyone remember what season this song was hot in heavy rotation?Im assuming Fall if Im thinking Halloween.I dont mean what year.

[Meowbay]

In Europe it was in VERY heavy rotation from early September 1986 up to late october 1986.

So I guess you're right, must have been Halloween-ish at the time ;-)

[viller76]

;-)))

[Simon5005]

She was so adorable and this was the best Pop music ever. But back then, it was all about the music and not money and overt sexuality like today.

[XHALE303]

hey drummer what are u doing?...its a drumcomputer....its also not a DX7 sound

[mmcneil777]

She has that wonderful energy. You feel like you know her. Wonderful performer and person.

[Simonita15]

Cooooool...

[aychingao]

she didnt dance like a nigga, she dance like latina, and the music sound like a latin rhythm. Just like Gloria Estefan and her latin sound machine.

[LadiiD0Pe]

Her baby face is tooooo cute :]

[CHRISLARA1985]

Big time lip syncing and fake instrument playing...but still love the song.

[skincauldron]

With all due respects to Michael (RIP), Janet's Control and Rhythm Nation albums were the two best albums to bear the Jackson name. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were at the top of their game writing songs like this.

[pm222444]

i miss this janet.

[xoxofashiionista]

@pm222444

Me too:)

[Pusfan]

I hope she adopts MJs kids

[perfectprincessa]

everyone wants that pusfan! :) xxx

[bigwillietheb]

this right here is just a all around feel good song

[fuegoman70]

Terry Lewis & Jimmy Jam put Minneapolis on the map!!! I would say the same about Prince but he doesn't want any of his vids on youtube with music :(

[disyokerr]

She have sweet face allways , But in the Velve rope concert in Madison s g NY, wow she was in the best shape ever, exellent abs and super cute,

Love you alla ways Janet.

[mmcneil777]

She has great stage presence and charisma. Janet!

[teeizhot]

Such a cute baby face.

[serentonin]

dang work those shoulder pads!

[davyace]

LOL

[joetj]

@serentonin you so stupid for that lol

[serentonin]

@joetj so is your face..

[joetj]

@serentonin it was a joke you mild retard...notice how I put the "lol" at the end dumb dumb

[serentonin]

@joetj oh for real, i see what you did there a joke.. sorry dumb dumb LOL

[joetj]

@serentonin ;)

[jxm969]

Thats a track playing with her fake band, lol still love this song anyway

[cavstony]

she looks so amazing

[katfi5h]

INCREDIBLE

[fruityloopzman]

do you king mc and screaming k

from 1986 on the countdown

[DEGERMANS]

80's child all the way, that's me......what a crazy time it was...luv the music

[LemurMaster]

I love her Key Earring. That's a handy place to put them if you don't have pockets I guess.

[sfb001]

Hello shoulder-pads! Rock it Janet!

Whenever I watch a Janet music video I am always waiting to catch a glimpse of her with those wide shoulder-pads. Hey...its a vintage look! ;-)

[ESCOXTC]

this is such a great song!

[wannabfamousnow]

Thank you for uploading this video. Janet LOOKED awesome!!!

[cavstony]

She did. She looks great without all the weave in her head. This reminds me of how she looked on "Why Did I Get Married"

[lisajobity]

she is soooo cute

[wgseagal]

JANET IS SO CUTE HERE

[Disco4Evr79]

Janet was so adorable here!! Love her innocent look. Man, the 80s had awesome music :D:D:D

[mikejamesthree]

Wow, it looks like J.J. Evans just opened the door! Didn't realize how young she was when she got into mainstream music.

[blackadam06]

God I miss these days..

[babyEroose]

one of my favs by her.

[mathwiz412]

i love janet j

[Bennome]

Lovin' the key earnings! Classic JDJ!

[AngisMelody]

Janet est tout simplement craquante !

[0xox0xox0xox0xox0xox]

that's so gay when people 4ct. clap. this isn't hee haw. clap on the 2nd and 4th beat please.

[Meowbay]

LOL, yeah, I agree.

[RhythmDroid]

@0xox0xox0xox0xox0xox I didn't realize clapping patterns had any connections to your sexual orientation...

[dwilmer7]

@0xox0xox0xox0xox0xox hee haw... damn funny

[tommyloika]

@0xox0xox0xox0xox0xox - that's so gay? Janet would yell at you after me

[sunshine74012]

@0xox0xox0xox0xox0xox OMG - I know! I hate when people do that. I just want to slap them silly! There's a reason why the snare and clapping sound sounds on the 2nd and 4th beat - to keep you time!

[horus1971]

loved it

[clarriona]

those good ol' days!

[26095]

Oh, Baby, come back to the Twin Cities... I love you!

[ComoLaFlorr]

I love it muchh love the hair and outfit of the video

[bluhrted]

thanks for this!!!

[bluhrted]

WHAT..noway...omg..i never seen thisss...

[saflsogdsgj]

Ah, why couldn't my daddy have pushed my family into stardom and our last name as household ones too?

[HAELY414]

Look @ her so cute i loves Janet shes awseome.

[Idsard2007]

She looks so good here, so cute !!

[delisubgnome]

Janet before she was packaged, plastic and marketed. Just Janet...I love this video and I LOVE this song.

[dabodyrobinson]

how can you say that this is where the whole packaging, and marketing started, and the nose job was already done. she admited to having it done because it was broken. anything before wasn't really packaged, Paula was apart of the package, Terry McClain from A&M was responsible and Jam&Lewis was the finishing touch on the package. So Paula Abdule Choreography,Jam&Lewis Production, Terry McClain A&R from the record company.

[babyEroose]

I love janet jackson i always have but that "I fixed it b/c I broke it" is the same thing michael said why he got his first nose job. Either this is a very accident prone family or she's telling a little white lie. Plus you can fix your nose w/o "europeanizing" it. I believe she's had more work than that done on her face, but her boobs and abs are real.

[darrin1701]

the question is why would you do that in the first place?

One of the reason segreation law was abolished is also because psychologists realized that black children would indentified a "good baby" as being the white one, not the black admiting a denial of it's own image and..beauty, that is a TRAGEDY as beauty is everywhere, one should impose her colour and beauy see tyra and not modify it's apearance to meet some beauty "stansdards"

Ps i'm white

[babyEroose]

I'm confused...I think you went off on a tangent there...I knew all about that old experiment during the brown vs board of education case...but i dont need that experiment to know that already. I'm black & i've lived it. I know the jackson family in general suffer from a little racial identity crisis. MJ & Latoya have lightened their skin- they w/janet all have the "pinched" nose job, several of them have had interracial marriages or children I was just saying i feel strongly that she lied>>>

[babyEroose]

about why she got a nose job b/c saying "i broke it" saves a lot more ridicule than "i don't like it b/c it's big" (which it wasnt). especially since black ppl were just really starting to accept our features as beautiful. "one should impose her colour and beauy see tyra". I find that comment ironic b/c although tyra is black she is that type of black beauty that was most acceptable for a long time, long hair (her weave is blond), green eyes, & light skin. which shows for black women that>>>

[babyEroose]

things really haven't changed much. whenever someone of any color wants to point out the popular blk women adored for their looks its always the more "europeanized" blk women: i.e. Tyra Banks, Halle Berry, Beyonce, Rihana. long hair, light skin, light eyes. Of course tyra has little problem loving herself a)she has the 'desired' look & b)she got a 10 person makeup crew to make her look fabulous. Now I went on tangent, wasnt trying to make it a racial discussion, just "we know the truth janet".

[CURTISTHEHOTTNESS]

It seems that she was fresh off of Fame and could have chilled and just ride her success but girlfriend worked her tail off. It funny because I love Janet more than anyone and I used to get so upset because it seems that Janet didn't support her projects enough. I watch other artist on other shows but Janet is rare to be on anything, which now I realize was smart because it wasn't like she was at home baking cookies. After watching some of her past things on YouTube, I'm forever changed.

[SoulnSensual]

That was the recording...

[jacquielinka]

love the song but doesnt seem live

[SoulnSensual]

Seem Cheezy/...lol

[tyhghgfewr]

love the beat to this song best thing she,s ever done love it !!!!! trying to think when it was released err about 86?

[putasuzia]

This must be wayyyyyyyyy before she did the videos for these songs. There's no cheoreography at all!!!! It's wonderful.

[putasuzia]

she was so cute back then. i just love when she uses her own hair!

[PurpleinLA]

You wrong for that! lol!

[wannabfamousnow]

I've never seen this video. Thanks for the post!

[mostmost1]

I love the breathyness of her vocal on this song. Plus that shoulder rock is great!

[joetj]

she loved that shoulder move lol

[pinkskyies]

I know she does!

[wimington819]

I enjoyed this video,I did not know that she did live video of this song. So does anyone know what show she did it on.

[NEVAEHty]

I LUuUuV Her "Shoulder Dance" SoO Cute...And SoOo JANET!!!WERK!!!Me And My Home Gurlz Alwayz Tried 2 Do The Shoulder Dance...And It Never Werked Out...lolz

[david2407]

I love Janet,but this is totally not live at all!..lol...the backup singer almost dosen't know the words.Janet is doing the background as well.

[ESCOXTC]

this is such a sweet song. never gets old.

[wgseagal]

she sounds great here singing with some emotion she seems so happy too in front of all those people getting that attention.

[wgseagal]

love this song makes me so happy hearing it

[janetROMANIA]

queen of music!

[carol14mj]

Janet is so cute here

[baby163]

she is. Love this song

[13randon5]

tight!

[marjon23]

wow, look at her. so young.

[DanjaMawf2006]

wow...when I look at this performance in 86 and her Grammy performance in 87..it's a HUGE difference. She was so shy and cute in this performance. Within a year, she went from cute rosey cheeks Janet to dominating the stage like no other! Yes!

[dofriesgowiththat]

she used to always do the shoulder dance back then.

Also I love this song because the first verse of her lyrics, they left the breathing in. you can hear her breath out and in after every thing she sings. then later they fix it.

[Southbeachgurl]

she does that shoulder dance in her performance. I notice it alot lol...

[janetjackdiscpline]

Wow I remember this!

[e1992kk2002]

janet is sooooooooooooooo cute in this video clip. i remember these days when CONTROL was out. to me, that was her best album ever.

[GESCUTIA]

Luv it Luv It Luv it This Is Outta Control!!!! Go On Girl...Miss. Janet

[ccinnervisions]

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG­GGGGGGGGGGG rare this is my favourite time period my favourite song

[jayqwuandoctor]

SHE SO BEAUTIFUL, O LOVE THIS SONG

[Poetryisalive]

Janet had cheeks... LOL

[09181975]

Never seen this clip before...but it's interesting how you see Janet without any dancers and without crazy special effects on stage! LOL! SHE STILL TURNS IT OUT, THOUGH!

[smittied72]

lol i rememember her doing that shoulder. we use to call that janet dance.

[Jingaga]

janet is the best..gotta love her...

[Jingaga]

gosh i love her.

[13randon5]

WOW!!! I never seen this!! thank you so much for posting..you really made my night..xoxo

[romeropablo]

I mean...the DX7 turned off, and the chorist at 03:30", so many years Studying for ending up doing that shit on the base recorded...But i love Janet here: more fresh and beautiful when she was with more kilos...

[Meowbay]

Sure, but you must realize how these performances went;

She was in The Netherlands only short enough to perform at a couple of places and do 3 (local) TV appearances at the most, of which this was one. They had possibly only twenty minutes to set it all up (and I mean all of it, including the set-dressing of the stage), so they just went with what they could do and tried to make the best of it.

[romeropablo]

..With all that musicians on stage, and doing playback? Why not play live? Ok, "Television".

[romeropablo]

I hate the playback/I like the song

[teranbrper]

She was so cut and beautiful here and she still is!

[lovemesomejj]

wow, talk about rare. T4P!!! look how shy she is on stage lol love her!!

[npscholes]

she looks so beautiful and thanks for posting this video

[Meowbay]

You're welcome! Bumped into this VHS-recording while doing some chores for other stuff on the same tape. This must be quite a unique clip.

[missjanet88]

she looks so cute in this performance with that chubby face but it was hot!!!!!!!! and i miss that key in her earring.