Vevo and Janet Jackson have teamed up for a brand new episode of Vevo Footnotes, celebrating her large hit “Someone to Call My Lover,” the second single from her 2001 seventh studio album, All For You. The episode arrives amid the music’s viral resurgence and forward of Jackson being honored with the Icon Award on the 2025 American Music Awards.
The video presents a behind-the-scenes peek on the making of the music, which blends two traditional samples: the guitar riff from America’s 1972 “Ventura Highway” and a sped-up melody from Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No.1,” made well-known by Claude Debussy. Initially, Janet didn’t acknowledge “Ventura Highway” when producer Jimmy Jam performed it within the studio. Jackson reportedly “felt bad” about not immediately recognizing it. Jackson first heard “Gymnopédie No.1” in a business as a toddler, and the melody caught along with her. “My son loves it,” she as soon as advised SiriusXM. “He falls asleep to that song.”
Additionally within the episode, Janet shares that she first sang the vocal melody over the cellphone to Jimmy Jam. Upon listening to the melody, Jam urged Jackson to return to Minneapolis to document the observe.
The video additionally notes that Jackson as soon as mentioned that the album accommodates, “songs that feel right, songs that feel good. That you could see you’re in the car, the top down, you’re cruising, it’s summertime.”
Reflecting on the lyrics, Jackson says the music is, “really about the next person you want to be with and call yours.”
Greater than 20 years after its launch, “Someone to Call My Lover” has discovered new life on-line, resulting in a 600% surge in every day streams and incomes a spot within the encore part of her 2024 tour, marking a uncommon return of the observe to her stay set. Between the years of 2002 and 2017, Jackson hardly ever carried out the music throughout her live shows.
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