Nasty (Janet Jackson song)

"Nasty"
"Nasty"
	US and European cover
Single by Janet Jackson
from the album Control
B-side	"You'll Never Find (A Love Like Mine)"
Released	April 15, 1986
Recorded	September 1985
Studio	Flyte Tyme, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Genre	Dance-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
Audio sample
	file; help;
Music video
	"Nasty" on YouTube

"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).

^ "Scream. By Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, James Harris, 3rd & Terry Lewis, Gentle stranger". Faqs.org. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
^ Ripani, Richard J. (2006), The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950–1999, Univ. Press of Mississippi, pp. 130–132, ISBN 1-57806-862-2
^ Cite error: The named reference Rolling Stone was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "The 20 Best Pop Songs in History By Women Artists". LA Weekly. December 9, 2014.

[1] "Scream. By Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, James Harris, 3rd & Terry Lewis, Gentle stranger". Faqs.org. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2015.

[2] Ripani, Richard J. (2006), The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950–1999, Univ. Press of Mississippi, pp. 130–132, ISBN 1-57806-862-2

[Rolling_Stone-3] Cite error: The named reference Rolling Stone was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[4] "The 20 Best Pop Songs in History By Women Artists". LA Weekly. December 9, 2014.

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