Someone to Call My Lover
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| Single by Janet from the album All for You |
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| Released | June 26, 2001 | ||||
| Format | CD single, 12" single, 7" single | ||||
| Recorded | Flyte Tyme Studios (Edina, Minnesota) |
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| Genre | Pop, folk | ||||
| Length | 4:32 (Album Version) 4:16 (Single Edit) |
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| Label | Virgin | ||||
| Writer(s) | Janet Jackson, James Harris III, Terry Lewis, Dewey Bunnell | ||||
| Producer | Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis | ||||
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American promo CD single
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"Someone to Call My Lover" is a song by American R&B/pop singer Janet Jackson.
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[edit] Song information
Released in 2001 as the second single from Janet Jackson's seventh studio album, All for You (2001), the song was co-written and co-produced by Jackson, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis. Its looped guitar riff is sampled from America's 1972 hit "Ventura Highway". The loop played throughout the chorus is an interpolation of "Gymnopédie No. 1" by French classical composer Erik Satie, played in 4/4 time instead of the original 3/4. Jackson had searched for years for the catchy Satie track. "When I was a little girl and I used to come home from school, there was something called "The 3:30 Movie", and they used to play the MGM Musicals. There was a commercial. I remember watching Singin' in the Rain and there was a commercial with the lady all in white, and I don't know if it was for Dove or something like that, but they would play this, 'Da, da , da.' It was the Erik Satie. I never knew who the composer was, and this song never left me."
Jackson said she came across the tune again about seven years later: "I was at Ralph Lauren and I said, 'Oh, my God! Is this the radio or is this a CD?' I said, 'Please tell me it's a CD.' They said, 'It's a CD--well, actually it's a Ralph Lauren CD and we don't have it anymore. I was like, 'Oh God...no,' and they gave me the CD."
Jackson said, "I took it straight to Jimmy [Jam] and said, 'Jimmy, I've just got to share this with you,' and he saw my passion and my love for it. He didn't take the actual song, but he kind of put his own flavor to it in 'Someone To Call My Lover,' which takes me back to my childhood."[1]
At the time of recording, Jackson had just divorced her longtime husband, René Elizondo, Jr., 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.
The song's So So Def Remix was Jackson's first collaboration with Jermaine Dupri, and the single peaked at number three in the United States. The song earned Jackson a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" in 2002, losing out to Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird".
[edit] Music video
The music video was directed by Francis Lawrence, and centres around a jukebox. Jackson is depicted driving and walking into a bar, where she sings, dances and eventually hitches a ride from a red car. A video for the So So Def Remix was also released, and contains similar footage to the original but contains shots of Dupri in alternate scenes as well as his vocals.
The original video made the limited bonus-DVD edition of All for You while the So So Def Remix video appears on the 2004 video compilation From janet. to Damita Jo: The Videos.
[edit] Track listings and formats
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[edit] Charts
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[edit] Official remixes
- Album Version – 4:32
- Album Instrumental – 4:32
- Single Edit – 4:14
- Hex Hector/Mac Quayle Club Mix – 7:38 (= Hex Hector/Mac Quayle Vocal Mix or Hex Hector/Mac Quayle Club Vocal Mix)
- Hex Hector/Mac Quayle Radio Mix – 3:49
- Hex Hector/Mac Quayle Radio A cappella – 3:49
- Hex Hector/Mac Quayle Dub Mix – 6:02
- Hex Hector/Mac Quayle Progressive Vocal Mix – 9:54
- Hex Hector/Mac Quayle Progressive Bonus Beats – 3:46
- Jam & Lewis Velvet Mix – 4:46
- Jam & Lewis Total 80's Remix – 5:08
- Single Edit – 4:14
- So So Def Remix featuring Jermaine Dupri – 4:40
- So So Def Instrumental – 4:40
- 80's Remix – 5:08
- The Velvet Mix – 4:46
[edit] References
- ^ Janet Jackson On The Creation Of 'Someone To Call My Lover'
- ^ Janet* - Someone To Call My Lover
- ^ Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover
- ^ Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover
- ^ Janet* - Someone To Call My Lover
- ^ Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover
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- ^ Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover
- ^ Janet Jackson Someone To Call My Lover Japan 5" CD SINGLE (182867)
- ^ Janet Jackson Someone To Call My Lover Australia 5" CD SINGLE (188582)
- ^ Janet Jackson Someone To Call My Lover - in sales presenter France Promo 5" CD SINGLE (199682)
- ^ All for You > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2008-04-02.
- ^ Janet Jackson – Someone To Call My Lover – swisscharts.com. SwissCharts.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-03.
- ^ Chart Data: Janet Jackson. Mariah-Charts.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
- ^ De Nederlandse Top 40 – week 28 – 2001 (Dutch). Radio 538. Retrieved on 2008-04-03.
- ^ Classifiche Mix e Singoli. FIMI. Retrieved on 2008-04-03.
- ^ Latvian Airplay Top 30 – week 31 – 2001. Lanet.lv. Retrieved on 2008-04-03.
- ^ United World Chart – singles & airplay – week 36 / 2001. Media Traffic. Retrieved on 2008-04-03.
- ^ The ARC Weekly Top 40 Archives: August 25, 2001. Rock On The Net. Retrieved on 2008-04-03.
| Preceded by "Planets of the Universe" by Stevie Nicks |
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single August 18, 2001 |
Succeeded by "You Set Me Free" by Abigail |
| Preceded by "Lady Marmalade" by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink |
United World Chart number-one single September 8, 2001 |
Succeeded by "Bootylicious" by Destiny's Child |
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