Janet Jackson - You Need Me Lyrics

Can we get a Rhythm Nation 30Y.O and release these unreleased bops 👀

Janet, Jimmy and Terry went HARD on this track!!! New Jack Swing, BABY!!!!

Time flies! It's both hard to believe and cool as to how one of Pop music's most important epic albums, as well as one of Jackson's most pivotal, is celebrating its 30th Anniversary. Looking back, RN1814 could've easily been released as a double album with the previously unreleased and/or rare B-sides as featured, as well as it to be celebrated and as equally acknowledged as one of Pop music's most successful double albums ever! RN1814 remains an epic musical masterpiece.

That track is fire!

Thank you.

Demita Jo

I wish Janet had stayed with jam and Lewis her music is so different I can't get into it the last album I have is Demita Up 😞

I need this song on my phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

😨😀😀😀😀 O MY GOSH...i haven't heard this one since my teacher played it for us to do a dance routine...a millennia ago. Thanks.




and just think...i thought it was gone forever.

I’m glad she didn’t go for the ‘family scandal’ album and went for the social commentary album instead

I hear a lot of "If" in the verses. Very kind

粵：文佩玲——《鬥氣》

I still feel this song now in 2019...man family can take u there. To some low places even u try to rectify the issues. Same shit happens and they wonder why u act distant or show like u are cold to them. I'm at that place. I love them yet. U can't do the damage & expect me not to have feelings

I bought the miss you much cassette single back in 1989, and was a little disappointed this wasn't the lead single to the rhythm nation album, no video and not even on the album. It's sad that her b-sides are better than most on the singles released on the albums. Who's in charge of what goes on the album and what is released as a single. VERY DISAPPOINTED!!!

SHR SOUNDS LIKE SHE SONG HAD BEEN CRYING AT THE END WHEN SHE IS SCATTING INSTEAD OF SINGING. LIKE SHE SANG N PUSHED HER WAY THREW CAUSE SHE KNEW SHE HAD TO FINISH THE TRACK.

HAPPY 2019 YOU CAN HEAR THE BEATS TO RHYTHM NATION AND NASTY BOYS IN THE BACKGROUND COMBINED🎶🎶🎵🎼🎤🎤🎧🎧🎷📻🎙️🎙️🎛️🎛️🎛️🔥🔥🔥🔥😘😘😘💯💯

LAAAVVV ITT

Wow! Should have been on the album! I love this!

Dem lyrics explains everything.......(let that thought sink in)

I can’t believe I never heard this gem! One of the best songs ever. She was brave enough to talk about the abuse in music, that’s a huge step. Not even Michael talked about joe in songs. This is crazy

#NewJackSwing

The best music to listen to 💕🎵🎶🎤🎵😃

This song still hits home today for me. Tears flow. ----------

Haven’t heard this in years

One of my favorite songs by the queen

Ya I wonder why my dad wanted nothing to do with me either go Janet for making this song

RIP joe. I wonder if he hears this before passing away.

should have been a single. its one of the B´s that had me dancin doing my hair

Janet's voice is so underrated!

I’ve had this song in my head every since I herd of Joe’s passing

Je l'adore cette femme

That rhythm nation 1814 album was the truth....it's all happening today...love a Janet. The queen

girlllll i’m fixin to make this intro my ringtone
JUST ADMIT. YOU NEED. ME. BITCH.

I remember blasting this cassette single in my first brand new car, Toyota Celica, candy apple red in color; Jomaine F.& me. Rip Jomaine, the biggest JanFan next to me!

Shawn Jones heeeey shawn Jones lol

💙💙👌

@Nogger Nation hello my friend!

New jack swanggin 🎶

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE

That blast off at 4:10 to the end note.. is why the Jam/Lewis/Jackson magic is never ending. This song is over 20 yrs old and goes harder everytime I hear it. They came through on this shit. #bsidelegendaryness

They should have replaced “Lonely” with this song

Nooo, that's my JAM too ....

@Cedric Voss say that!

Noooo! Lonely is one of my favorite Janet songs.

Blasphemy, Lonely is a 10/10

You tripping. Lonely is one of her best vocal performance and the music is magical. If anything, I'd be bold enough to say replace "Alright" with this if anything. In the end, it is still doing what it needs to do...reach us DIEHARDS.

Love Janet, but has ANYONE OBSERVED her nose? It’s more pointed then today. Well” she’s older still sexy.

It was my first time hearing it. Me personally, I love it and I hear elements of a few tracks. Rhythm Nation, The Knowledge, Escapade, and If.

The backing track is basically 'The Knowledge'. There's no If or Escapade on there

This was a song and a half~It broke my heart daily that my father didn't want to have anything to do with me at all. I bumped this song everyday and cried {my dad/father denied I was his} even though he is no longer living, it still hurts from time to time

honeyrainn I am sorry to hear that. 😢 I believe you will reunite with him in heaven.❤

I wonder why this song wasn't on the cd I like this

Running time, probably. If all of the songs had been included, RN 1814 would have become a double LP comprising 2 vinyl pressings, and that would have made more expensive to print and $ell. However, it should have been a double LP.

Henry Ferguson because they changed the theme of the album. Originally, it was going to be about the family and this was the first song recorded for that concept. But Janet wasn’t keen as she didn’t wanna be riding on the Jackson name so the album was changed to the social commentary concept and we got Rhythm Nation 1814.

Both ppl are correct

Matt Ro true dat

sion bentley 😎

This is actually one of my fav Janet tracks

ME TOO!!!!

Mine tii

MISS JACKSON USED THIS SOUND ON BURNITUP! OMG

That metallic "ahhhhhh" sound at the beginning. For the longest time, I wanted to know what it was. It's a cymbal brush being played in reverse. She first uses it on Nasty, then Miss You Much, Rhythm Nation, Escapade...a pinch of If...then it disappeared until 20 Y.O at the beginning So Excited...and disappeared again until BURNITUP

Entire album's still epic. I edited this song right on contact after MISS YOU MUCH. 1 of her best works 2 date.

Redd Blitz

Man she should have released that as a single! i can see the video right now with her dancing her ass off!! lol

Richard Mcghee

this is Janet! yes..

To be honest around 2011 when checking this song our country was blocked(Philippines) and FINALLY IT WAS LIFTED SO I CAN LISTEN TO THIS AGAIN.!!!!

This song fits on Rhythm Nation like a hand in a glove... & its the track that defo lead to smash hit 'if' afew years later 'if I was yr girl...'

It does ring of "If", huh? Hmm

In my opinion, instrumental-wise, this song would fit on RN but lyricwise, it wouldn't. However, this is still a fantastic song!!

Someone tell me why Janet?

loved this song, I remember recording it on one of my blank tapes!

Reminds me of If lol

this is amazing omg.

+joshuad smith I used to kill this song....

New Jack Swing at its best.

+Twan L. Claiborne No New Jack here! All Jam and Lewis!

Beth Ward .....Say it Again !!!!

The jam!!!Janet!!!!!!

The jam!!!Janet!!!!!!

I bumped this till the tape popped! She was singing my life back then.

I feel you on that sentiment. Although I'm a grown man now, I see what not having a father around did to my younger sister. My sister, who died of a heart attack at the age of 29, was very angry with our father, who also died 8 years later of a heart attack as well. It's always been a prayer of mine that she forgave him before she transitioned. We'd have discussion as to why she should forgive him. For one thing, it's was for her own personal freedom and secondly, it was her duty as a young christian woman. Lastly, our father was an addict and suffered from the disease of addiction. I hope and pray that whatever issues you may have had with your father have been resolved or at the very least are working towards a resolution if you're fortunate enough to have your father still around. #Godspeed #HappyHolidays #Peace #ChristIsAlwaysTheReasonForAnySeason

@Tiffani this is one of the most underrated tracks she did during this project.

Damn this song is pointinggggg

Awwwww Janet wanted so badly to be a daddy's girl, too bad her father was an emotionally distant tyrant.

DJ Gary

utubegirl o

Beautiful Woman Latoya admitted that she lied about everything she said about her family. She was made to turn against her family by her late ex-husband, Jack Gordon who was abusive and isolated her family and friends. She admitted all this in interviews after she left him as well on her reality show Life of Latoya.

+Joshua McDowell you are that gullible? remember Tv is scripted. go by your hearts feeling. Yes most or some was exaggerated. but when Latoya tried to expose years ago how Joe had a second daughter nobody believed her... bingo! that turned out to be very true! the beatings by Joe? very true! the cheating by Joe??very true!! I can go on and on.

@utubegirl PAST NOT PASSED IDIOT

She is one hell of a force. Can't no other chick do it like my J.

I had this tape.

damn these lyrics go soooo hard

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis created this song with Janet.  I had this  12 inch of miss u much. You need me was the b side.

Originally this song was to be apart of what J's label at the time wanted from her and that was a sequel to her mega breakthrough album CONTROL. However, such would never fully come into existence due to J not wanting to air out dirty family laundry, and too, she wanted to focus more on such a concept album that would become RN1814.

That's correct, I think the original title for the album was Scandal but Janet wanted to focus more on issues that were happening in society. In an interview, Jimmy Jam said that Marvin Gaye's What's Going On was a big influence when making this album

I've also read the less risky way was to call the album Escapade put another alum cover and start it with Miss you much, love would never do, escapade and finish with state of the world, the knowledge and rhythm nation. But the message would have been sent and felt differently

The best song GUY never made! Under appreciated gem from JANET! New Jill Swing at its best!

Underrated. Not appreciated IDIOT

X2A3 yesss !

Jam & Lewis had their own sound imo.

Tbh Jimmy and Lewis pioneered NJS.... nasty was a precursor to New Jack Swing. Ask Teddy

I love it.

4:10 when she holds that note and the emotion behind it! Omg! Yahhhz Janet! Please come back sanging like you use to!

Raj Eccentric she did <3

THIS SONG IS WHAT MADE ME BUY THE ALBUM!!!

and it wasn't even on there...

+Melvin Moore he's lying because this wasn't on the album lol. why do ppl do this to fit in? lol

I did too. When i hear this song I was like dang!!! " The beat is hard but the lyrics are even harder.

Still have this on vinyl. Played it to death. Preferred it to the A side!

omg I use to thrash this back in the day.....

I love this keep going

"got that groove going..."

i think he was,but aint now!! lol

she is one of the greatest all around!!!

I had this cassette tape. Memories!!

THE POP INDUSTRIAL ELECTRO FUNK QUEEN ......PRE DUBSTEP

Joe, sweetheart, don't you get it? You cant be that stupid....well maybe you can.

Sounds like "The Knowlegde"!!!!

yes, it's just a b-track and they ended up with the knowledge

fulleffect29

Like if you know what B-side refers to....haha!!!

the "better" side...

TheClassictvfan

Man, I have not heard this since Jr. High.. This song has been so hard to find for many years.. Feels good to hear it as a grown woman! Thanks brings back memories..

0:34 sounds a little bit like the chorus in If!
Btw, this rocks!!!

Luv this song! xx

this goes hard

JANET GOES SO HARD!!! =)*****