Nasty (Janet Jackson song)

"Nasty"
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Single by Janet Jackson
from the album Control
B-side	"You'll Never Find (A Love Like Mine)"
Released	April 15, 1986 (1986-04-15)
Recorded	September 1985[1]
Studio	Flyte Tyme, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Genre	Pop funk new jack swing
Length	4:03
Label	A&M
Songwriter(s)	James Harris III Terry Lewis Janet Jackson
Producer(s)	Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
Janet Jackson singles chronology
"What Have You Done for Me Lately" (1986) "Nasty" (1986) "When I Think of You" (1986)
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"Nasty" is a song by American singer Janet Jackson from her third studio album, Control (1986). It was released on April 15, 1986, by A&M Records as the album's second single. It is a funk number built with samples and a quirky timpani melody. The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and remains one of Jackson's signature songs. The line "My first name ain't baby, it's Janet – Miss Jackson if you're nasty" has been used in pop culture in various forms. According to musicologist Richard J Ripani, Ph. D, the single is one of the earliest examples of new jack swing music.^[2]

The song won for Favorite Soul/R&B Single at the 1987 American Music Awards. It ranked number 30 on VH1's 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years, number 45 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s, number 79 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Pop Songs, number 11 on Rolling Stone's 200 Best Songs of the 1980s^[3] and number six on LA Weekly's Best Pop Songs in Music History by a Female.^[4] It has been included in each of Jackson's greatest hits albums: Design of a Decade: 1986–1996 (1995), Number Ones (2009) and Icon: Number Ones (2010).