My Top 25 Janet Jackson Music Videos!!!

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5. “The Pleasure Principle”

Director: Dominic Sena 

“As I get closer to the top it’s getting REALLY HARD to find gifs that perfectly encapsulates these classic music videos as a whole. The sixth and final single off her breakthrough “Control”, Janet enters an abandoned warehouse looking very tough and determined as she sings about a relationship gone terribly wrong! There was no need for an extended army of dancers (yet!), special effects or directing trickery, it’s simple Janet dancing her ass off from location to location and it’s just incredible! The chair jump, the mic stabs routine, her dramatic posing, her iconic flip, etc. It’s no wonder this beat out Micheal’s “Smooth Criminal” for Best Dance Video at the VMAs a year later!” 

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4. “Got Til’ It’s Gone” ft. Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell

Director: Mark Romanek

”If “Made For Now” represents the ascension of black excellence and success,  then “Got Til’ It’s Gone” represents black separation and isolation. With a thought provoking apartheid theme,  Janet looks so naturally beautiful with little make up as her and rapper Q-Tip make the best of their depressing situation and enjoy the times amongst their people. There are SOOOOOO many powerful images here from a beaten and bruised boxer to twin boys moving together like a reflection in a mirror. Easily Mark Romanek’ s finest direction (besides Madonna’s “Bedtime Story”), this video is like a moving art piece that becomes more moving and gut-wrenching visually as it goes along. Masterful video!” 

 

 

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3. “All For You

Director: Dave Meyers

”All For You was Janet’s last HUGE era and she came back in the new millineum with a bang!! The music video is the epitome of not only the perfect Janet Jackson video but the perfect female pop artist video; Very colorful with an inventive concept and Janet living in a 2D world where everyone one including her just sticks out even more. That dance break toward the end again is one of her most memorable and iconic as well as her smile being simply divine!”

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2. “If”

Director: Dominic Sena 

“If.....it’s the quintessential Janet Jackson music video!!! Besides that STILL legendary dance break, the video’s concept is truly something to behold as it was truly ahead of its time. A mere 15 years before touch screens were invented with Apple, “If” tells the story of voyerism as club goers enter a secret Chinese club where Janet and her dancers are performing a risqué yet remarkable dance routine as people interact through monitors and have sex while watching them. It’s her sexiest video to date with Tina Landon’s most accomplished work of art! Can she work with Janet again, please!!?” 

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1. “Rhythm Nation”

Director: Dominic Sena 

“Yup, her BEST VIDEO OF ALL TIME!!! I can’t imagine a music video greater in her catalogue of musical cuts! The unforgettable message that still holds up today, the most iconic image of her career, the choreography synonymous with how amazing her dancing is, the industrial, post-apocalyptic warehouse setting, the impeccable synchronized dancers led by army general, Ms. Jackson herself. “Rhythm Nation” was more than just a militaristic music video, it was a moving movement of unity, dance and awareness of the world’s problems and issues we are still dealing with til this day. It made eve Micheal and Madonna take notice and solidified her massive impact in pop history til this day!”