That's the Way Love Goes

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"That's The Way Love Goes""

Single by Janet Jackson
from the album janet.
Released	April 20, 1993
Format	CD single CD maxi single Cassette single 7" single 12" maxi single
Genre	R&B/Pop
Length	4:25
Label	Virgin
Writer(s)	Janet Jackson Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis
Producer(s)	Janet Jackson Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis
Certification	4x Platinum (South Africa) Platinum (US)
Chart positions
#1 (U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan) #2 (UK)
Janet Jackson singles chronology
"The Best Things in Life Are Free" (1992)	"That's The Way Love Goes" (1993)	"If" (1993)

"That's The Way Love Goes" is the Grammy-winning first single from janet., the fifth studio album from American singer Janet Jackson. It was her biggest single ever, chart and saleswise in the United States^{[citation needed]}.

1 History
2 Music Video
3 Charts
4 Official versions/remixes
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

When Jackson signed to Virgin Records in March 1991, it was headline news. Her US$32 million contract was the largest recording deal in history. A little over two years after moving from A&M to Virgin, Jackson released her first single under the new deal. "That's The Way Love Goes", a preview from her album janet., debuted at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100. A two weeks later, a day before Jackson's twenty-seventh birthday, May 16, 1993 it became Janet's sixth number-one on the Billboard Hot 100, eleventh number-one on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, and her ninth number-one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart.

There had been a lot of legal wrangling between the managers of Jackson and her producers, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, before recording began on her number-one album Rhythm Nation 1814. The mood was quite different going into janet., according to Jimmy Jam. The album reflected the lives of Jackson and her producers.

"That's The Way Love Goes" began as a loop of a sample from James Brown's number-one R&B hit from 1974, "Papa Don`t Take No Mess". Jackson wasn't excited about the track the first time she heard it, so Jam and Lewis gave her a tape of it just as she was leaving for a Christmas vacation and asked her to listen to it for a couple of weeks. When she returned, she told the producers, "You know that track you did? I love it. It's absolutely the bomb," according to Billboard magazine. Janet came up with the title, and the first draft had the lovelorn tone one would expect from such a title. Then she called Jimmy Jam at 2 in the morning to tell him she was taking a different direction, casting the lyrics in a more seductive light.

Jam and Lewis had a little bit of a fight with Virgin over which single to release first. "Everybody was talking about "If", says Jimmy Jam. "To me, your first single should say, 'Welcome to the album. If you like this, check out the rest.' And we really felt "That's The Way Love Goes" was in keeping with the spirit of the rest of the album. And since it went to number one, we proved that we were right!".

"That's The Way Love Goes" sold over 3.5 million singles worldwide^{[citation needed]} and won Jackson her second Grammy Award for Best R&B Song and she was nominated for Best R&B Performance - Female.

"That's The Way Love Goes" has been covered by Norman Brown, NSYNC, Chantay Savage, Deborah Cox and Brownstone.

[edit] Music Video

Jackson in the 'That's The Way Love Goes' music video

The video was directed by Jackson's former husband Rene Elizondo Jr. It takes places in a coffee shop where Jackson and her friends are relaxing. Jackson has a new single and her friends want her to play the tape, but she doesn't want to. Her friend Tish snatches the tape and puts it in the stereo on side A. Jackson begins to perform to the song and she is interrupted by Tish who pauses it to tell her "This is slammin'." Tish plays the tape and everyone in the coffee shop feel the song and they begin to dance along to it. The video also features a then unknown Jennifer Lopez as one of Jackson's backup dancers. "That's The Way Love Goes" was nominated for 3 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Female Video, Best Dance Video, and Best Choreography. It has become one of Jackson's most memorable videos to date.

[edit] Charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales	1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	16
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	1
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	1
U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40	1
UK	2
Australia	1
Bavaria	6
Belgium	12
Canada	1
Finland	5
Germany	9
Netherlands	5
Hungary	1
Japan	1
New Zealand	1
South Africa	1
Switzerland	11

[edit] Official versions/remixes

Album version (4:25)
Instrumental (4:25)
A capella (4:25)
CJ R&B 7" mix (4:10)
CJ R&B 12" mix (6:16)
CJ Macapella (6:22)
CJ FXTC club mix (6:24)
CJ FXTC dub (6:14)
CJ FXTC instrumental (6:16)
We Aimsta Win mix (5:36)
We Aimsta Win mix #1 (5:42)
We Aimsta Win mix #2 (5:14)
We Aimsta Win instrumental (5:42)

Preceded by "Freak Me" by Silk	Billboard Hot 100 number-one single May 15, 1993- July 3, 1993	Succeeded by "Weak" by SWV
Preceded by "Freak Me" by Silk	Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks number-one single May 8, 1993	Succeeded by "Knockin' da Boots" by H-Town
Preceded by "Easy" by faith No More	ARIA (Australia) number-one single May 29, 1993	Succeeded by "Informer" by Snow