Uniquely for the Control album, this was the only track not produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Instead, it was written and produced by , a keyboardist for the Minneapolis funk group The Time.
Directed by Dominic Sena and premiered on June 1, 1987, the music video is arguably more famous than the song itself. Janet Jackson - The Pleasure Principle
: The lyrics include a nod to Joni Mitchell’s "Big Yellow Taxi," a connection Jackson would later revisit by sampling Mitchell in her 1997 hit "Got 'til It's Gone". Uniquely for the Control album, this was the
: In a departure from the high-production videos of the era, it features Jackson alone in a warehouse loft, dressed simply in a T-shirt and jeans. Uniquely for the Control album