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How can we meet at a bar if you keep raising it, Ms. Jackson?
Janet Jacksons 2001 track Someone to Call My Lover is experiencing a resurgence on TikTok.
Currently sitting at No.
26 on the TikTok Viral 50 chart, thats still been enough to dramatically raise the songs stats.
Instead, the digital foundations for this moment appear to have been building for a while.
The beginning
2001:Janet Jackson drops the second single for her albumAll for Youon June 12.
Titled Someone to Call My Lover, it samples the guitar riff from Americas 1972 hitVentura Highway.
It is also an interpolation of composer Erik SatiesGymnopedie No.
1,which Jackson first heard in TV commercials growing up.
Someone to Call My Lover takes me back to my childhood, Jackson says.
The song peaks at No.
3 on theBillboard Hot 100 in September, and ultimately spends 20 weeks on the chart.
200415:Jackson faces heavy backlash following a wardrobe malfunction with Justin Timberlake at the 2004 Super Bowl.
She still goes on to release four more studio albums during this time period.
She does not perform Someone to Call My Lover on tour.
(According toSetlist.fm, this breaks a yearslong hiatus since the last time she performed it in 2019.)
This comes after its September 9 fun-factvideoabout fish takes off, with more than 4 million views to date.
(That video currently has 3.8 million views.)
A Lipstick Alley forum postnotedon February 28 that the song had been used more than 3,500 times.
The online attention is translating to streams, too.
Someone to Call My Lover enters Spotifys Daily Viral Songs USA chart on March 14 at No.
51 (and rises to No.
25 by March 23).
(And yes, shesgettingfanedits.)
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