I just "re-discovered" this track.

Never really paid much attention to it. Just another sugary ballad from Janet Jackson.

BUT right now I'm in a melancholy mood so I'm listening to lyrics and feeling them...and I played this track three times in a row.



Why was this song NOT a smash hit back-in-the-day?

Were the lyrics too racy? I mean, the video has nothing to do with the lyrics, so maybe the record company wanted to sugar it down?



My all-time fav JJ slow jam is "I Get So Lonely". I think that Twenty Fourplay should have had a more sensual video likewise.

What do you all think?

I absolutely love this song! Specially the "International Slow Jam Mix" (I think that is the name).

go2theMax said:

I absolutely love this song! Specially the "International Slow Jam Mix" (I think that is the name).

...going over to YouTube...

The "International Mix" is nice, but I like the original better.

I came across a "Tribal Beats Mix" that makes no godammned sense whatsoever...it's basically a bunch of House beats, no vocals, and no reference to the original song at all.

Loved this song from the second I first heard it on the radio. But for the life of me I cannot find the mix/edit they used to play on my Top 40 station. As for the song's chart success, or lack of, A&M didn't commercially release the single in the US so it wasn't eligible to chart on Billboard's Hot 100 and R&B charts. As for the video, it was Janet's homage to Dorothy Dandridge. Some say this was essentially Janet auditioning for the role that eventually went to Halle.

I really love this song too. One of her best vocal moments in my opinion. She looks stunning in the video. Janet expressed she wanted to portray Dorothy Dandridge during this period and the video is a tribute to her.

Definitely one of her best and an easy one to overlook. I liked the version on the DOAD album better than the video mix, though. It kicks up a gear a bit more in the second section.



P.S. I was in a similarly melancholy mood last night, with a taste for good R&B, and this EP was hitting the spot.
https://www.youtube.com/w...GkPtxgWaHc

yes love this song and bought the cdsingle when it was released. The house remixes were terrible though.

TeeeeHaaaaHoooo said:

Loved this song from the second I first heard it on the radio. But for the life of me I cannot find the mix/edit they used to play on my Top 40 station. As for the song's chart success, or lack of, A&M didn't commercially release the single in the US so it wasn't eligible to chart on Billboard's Hot 100 and R&B charts. As for the video, it was Janet's homage to Dorothy Dandridge. Some say this was essentially Janet auditioning for the role that eventually went to Halle.

Ahhhh...that explains it then!

scorp84 said:

More than anything, I fell in love with the intro when the album came out. I would loop it over and over again just to hear those beautiful chords before the vocals hit.

Love those too, and how the song suddenly become faster from the middle on the album version

was happy to find the single as well a few years after the release, but don't recall it getting radio airplay at all where I live though it was always on the video countdown late 1995/early 1996