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Today, Ms. Janet Jackson turns 46. MJ’s lil sis is the second most famous member of her siblings of the infamous Jackson clan, with good reason. We’ve been rocking her music hard since 1986 when she made her BIG debut with her third studio album Control. In ode to the superstar’s birthday, we have included a listed of our favorite five songs from her. We’re going to disclose right now that we kept it old school with all of her pre-1999 hits.

Control

“When I was 17 I did what people told me, uhh!
Did what my father said, and let my mother mold me
But that was long ago”

Janet was only a teenager when she belted out these bold lyrics. With the release of Control in 1986, people stopped associating Janet as the sweet little Jackson who acted on shows like Different Strokes and Good Times, and started thinking of her as simply Janet, “Ms. Jackson if you’re nasty.”