About The Song
“When I Think of You” is a song by American singer Janet Jackson from her third studio album, Control (1986). It was released on July 28, 1986, as the album’s third single. Composed by songwriters and record producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the song is about a person who finds relief and fun in a lover. It was Jackson’s first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100, and also peaked at number 10 in the United Kingdom.
Pitchfork included the song on their “The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s” list at number 48.
The song was resurrected in 1995 when released on two limited-edition CD single formats in the United Kingdom, one containing remixes by Deep Dish and Heller & Farley, and the other containing remixes by David Morales. That same year these remixes were included on certain releases of “Runaway”. “When I Think of You” has been included in each of Jackson’s greatest hits albums: Design of a Decade: 1986–1996 (1995), Number Ones (2009) and Icon: Number Ones (2010).
“When I Think of You” became Jackson’s first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100, spending two weeks atop the chart. After “When I Think of You” reached number one, it made Jackson and her brother Michael Jackson the first, and only siblings to both have solo number-one singles on the Hot 100. It also reached number three on the Hot Black Singles chart (making it the only single from the Control album that did not top the R&B chart) and number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1986. “When I Think of You” was the 32nd biggest Hot 100 single of 1986, as well as the 47th biggest Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs single of 1986 and the 22nd biggest Hot Dance Club Play single of 1986.
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Lyrics
Ooh, baby
Anytime my world gets crazy
All I have to do to calm it
Is just think of you
It’s when I think of you, baby
Nothing else seems to matter
It’s when I think of you, baby
All I think about is our love
I just get more attached to you
When you hold me in your arms
And squeeze me
And you leave me making me blue
It’s when I think of you, baby
Nothing else seems to matter
It’s when I think of you, baby
All I think about is our love
So in love (so in love)
Ooh (so in love), with you (so in love)
Baby (so in love), ooh, (so in love)
Yeah (so in love), with you (so in love)
(So in love)
When I think of you
(When I think of you)
When I think of you
(When I think of you)
Bass
I’m so in love
I just think of you
When you’re not around, I
When I think of you
So in love (so in love), with you (so in love)
Baby, you (so in love), ooh (so in love)
So in love (so in love), with you (so in love)
Break
Feels so good
When I think of you
Yeah, yeah