Someone to Call My Lover

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"Someone to Call My Lover"

Single by Janet Jackson
from the album All for You
Released	2001
Format	CD single 7" single 12" maxi single
Genre	Pop/R&B
Length	4:32
Label	Virgin
Writer(s)	Janet Jackson Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis Dewey Bunnell Erik Satie (uncredited)
Producer(s)	Janet Jackson Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis
Chart positions
#1 (United World Chart) #3 (U.S.) #11 (UK) #15 (AUS)
Janet Jackson singles chronology
"All for You" (2001)	"Someone to Call My Lover" (2001)	"Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)" (2001)/(2002)

"Someone to Call My Lover" is the second single from Janet Jackson's seventh studio album, All For You.

1 Song Information
2 Music Video
3 Charts
4 Remixes

[edit] Song Information

Released in 2001, the song was co-written and co-produced by Jackson, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis. It utilizes two samples. Its looped guitar riff is sampled from America's 1972 hit "Ventura Highway". The loop played throughout the chorus is sampled from Gymnopédie No. 1 written by Erik Satie. As the song is over 100 years old, it is public domain and Satie is not given official songwriting credit for the song.

The single peaked at number three in the United States. The single was released to radio and music video outlets simultaneously in two versions: the radio version (which was an edited version of the album cut) was released to pop markets, and the "So So Def Remix", Jackson's first collaboration with her future boyfriend Jermaine Dupri, was released to R&B markets.

The song's title is self explanatory; it is about a woman looking for someone to be her boyfriend, after ending a steady relationship (""Back on the road again/feeling kinda lonely and/Looking for the right guy/to be mine"). The lyrics caused fans to notice the similarities between Someone To Call My Lover and her 1998 hit, "I Get Lonely". Due to this [and the music provided in the Jam & Lewis remix Someone To Call My Lover (Velvet Mix)], many fans refer to this single as I Get Lonely, Pt. 2. At the time of recording, Jackson had just divorced her longtime husband, René Elizondo, after nearly ten years of marriage. "Someone to Call My Lover", and several of the other songs on the All for You album, use Jackson's divorce and re-emergence into single life as central themes.

While working on the remixes for the song, Jackson coincidentally found "someone to call her lover". Jermaine Dupri had been commissioned to create a remix for the song, and in the process pursued Jackson romantically. Newly divorced, Jackson initially resisted his attempts. However, he eventually won her over, and within two years they were steadily dating.

Jackson received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2002, losing to I'm like a Bird by Nelly Furtado

[edit] Music Video

Janet walking into a bar.

Directed by Francis Lawrence, the video starts with a jukebox loading to play the song. The music begins with Jackson driving singing the first verse and chorus with a mysterious stranger walking down the road. During the second verse, she is performing in a field. By the bridge of the song, Jackson, wearing a green dress, is walking in a bar. There are lot of activities going on. People are playing cards and arcarde games, and dancing. By the B-Section, she is sitting on the jukebox with a different outfit change. This takes us to another chorus when she is dancing with the patrons of the bar. Towards the end of the song, she is outside in her original outfit that continuously switches back-and-forth from the bar and her outside. At the end of the video, she is hitching a ride from a red car. The So So Def Remix video is the same as the album version but contains Jermaine Dupri's vocals. He also appears in alternate scenes.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2001)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales	1(3)
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay	9
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	11
U.S. Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Single Sales	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	1
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	12
U.S. Mainstream Top 40	3
U.S. Billboard Adult Comtemporary	29
ARC Top 40	1
Official UK Singles Chart	11
Australian ARIA Top 50	15
Austria Singles Chart	11
Belgium Singles Chart	32
Brazil Singles Chart	68
Canadian Singles Chart	9
France Singles Chart	58
Germany Singles Chart	65
Hong Kong Singles Chart	5
Ireland Singles Chart	23
Italy Singles Chart	37
Japan Sales Chart	1
Latvia Singles Chart	1
Netherlands Singles Chart	46
New Zealand Singles Chart	18
South African Sales Chart	2
Sweden Sales Chart	49
Switzerland Singles Chart	42
World Chart Show (Airplay)	1(3)