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Janet Jackson performs in the music video "Nasty" from the album "Control" recorded for A&M Records. Janet and her friends are at a movie theater when a group of men begin to harass them. Janet moves to the stage and jumps into the movie where she sings and dances before exiting the film.

After Donald Trump referred to Hillary Clinton as "such a nasty woman" during the third Presidential debate of the 2016 US election cycle, the song rose up 250% as reported by streaming platform Spotify.

The line "My first name ain't baby, it's Janet - Miss Jackson if you're nasty" has been used in pop culture in various forms.

The song won for Favorite Soul/R&B Single at the 1987 American Music Awards.

The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and remains one of Jackson's signature songs.

It ranked number 30 on VH1's 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 Years.

It ranked number 45 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s.

It ranked number 79 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Pop Songs.

It ranked number six on LA Weekly's Best Pop Songs in Music History by a Female.

It 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).

The song appears in video games DJ Hero 2, Dance Central 2 (as DLC), and Lips (as DLC).

Britney Spears covered "Nasty", along with "Black Cat", during her ...Baby One More Time Tour, and has paid homage to the song and video multiple times

"Nasty" is set in common time, in the key of F minor.

The song is in a medium dance groove tempo of 100 beats per minute.

The song is about respect as she tells all her male admirers "better be a gentleman or you'll turn me off".

For Los Angeles Times, Jackson's approach is hard and aggressive in the song.

Billboard's reviewer Steven Ivory called "Nasty" a "hard-funk" song, along with other tracks from Control.

William Ruhlmann of AllMusic picked the song as one of the album's highlight.

Website Scene 360° commented that it was a confident, sassy song and influenced pop music in the following years of its release.

Jackson sang "Nasty" live at the Grammy Awards of 1987, wearing an all-black outfit, along with Jam and Lewis and dancers.

In 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic included the song in his polka medley "Polka Party!" from his album of the same name.


Credited cast:
Paula Abdul Paula Abdul - Friend
Janet Jackson Janet Jackson - Janet Jackson
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