Its just shows the difference in music today. When I was young and janet was coming out...we didn't diss Donna Summer, Diana Ross, etc because they were legends. They were still making music and we HONORED them. Janet should be honored even if you're a Beyonce fan. PERIOD.
"Sexiest belly button" truly became one of Janet's taglines. I was 15 when our group danced both these songs (separately) and I'm sure we didn't do it justice. This set of dancers and her choreographer, Tina, were AMAZING. I love Janet - always will. But I feel that this era of her is my favorite. #janetjackson is Queen!
Damn, Janet doesnt even need all the glamour and glitz, just some jeans and tank, she still kills that like no other, just the music and choreography!!!! Get It Janet!!!
I loved Janet's whole steez the night of this performance. This was the first performance EVER since the Rhythm Nation Era. I was pissed that she didn't win any awards that night, but to me it kinda worked out for her for this performance. She closed the show, u didnt see her the whole night until u saw her on stage. She didnt smile the whole performance. Her whole swagger that night was such a mysterious vibe. It was so cool! She looked amazing! ONLY JANET can werk a stage like that. Luv her!!!
Time to leave a positive comment! This by far is her greatest performances ever. I love how the two songs mesh and damn she is so EFFIN SEXY!!! She was robbed on her nominations though. I love and will always love Janet no matter what any hater has to say about her!!!!
In a recent interview JLo said "When I first saw Janet perform I thought to myself I want to be as good of a dancer as Janet one day, and I'm still trying"
This is crazy and I put this on my life when I look back at old photographs from like 98(when I was 6) I can't even remember when I did any of that stuff but I can remember when and where I was when I first saw(heard) a Janet Jackson song and I remember always sitting by the radio all day so I can just hear a Janet song
everytime i look at this i drift back to that time frame... Janet is and will always be the best ever. i hate how so many pple try to compare her and Beyonce to eachother... they two different styles of sexy
Love you Janet. That you for helping me with my OA. This was one of the MTV Award's BEST EVER performances!!!!! This was one of the MTV Award's BEST EVER performances!!!!!
point blank...she IS the best for ME there is NO female artist in the past 10 years that has made me want to them..and she just makes dancing and looking sexy sooo easy... and i do agree she has the sexiest belly button lol, shes just THE best of the BEST...and i will always love her...xoxo Janet
Damn! Go Janet!! This was my FAVE performance at the time. I remember it was the MTV 93 Music Awards. Her and Lenny Kravitz gave the best performances. He did Are You Gonna Go My Way!
Gosh I can't tell you how many times I watched this performance as a kid. I LOVE JANET!!! She is the BEST!!! All others bow down. The QUEEN has arrived!!!
Janet IS singing live! You can hear her breathe between verses and the songs are nothing like the album version. Girl is singing and dancing live. This performance is HOT.
Oh yes!! The Vibe interview where they had her on the cover with braids? The way she looked in "you want this" video?? I gotta find that magazine!! I read that article sooooo many years ago I don't really remember it. Thanks again for all the info. Now I kinda look at this performance in a whole new light. Can't believe i 4got those two events happened at the same time. Guess im gettin old. LOL XD
You know that Janet is a legend when you have all the haters who want to compare her to Beyonce. A.) Compare Beyonce to the girls in her peer group, which are Britney, Ciara and Rhianna. Janet created this style that they are desperately trying to bite. Janet has already BEEN THERE and DONE THAT in her career! Janet has nothing to prove!!!!! 37yrs in the game is ENOUGH PROOF!!!! Love you Janet!!!!
@loriv77 well Imdb is wrong. Jennifer is not here. The dancers in this performane are: Nikki Patenburg, Kelly Konno, Shawnette Heard, Cynthia Davila, Tish Oliver, & Tina Landon. Jennifer only did the "That's The Way Love Goes" video, then she got the "Selena" role & started her acting career.
SOME? Please, from the holograms at her recent Tidal performance, to the sexual matter of Janet for her same self-titled album Beyonce, Beyonce has been leeching off Ms. Jackson. You'd think she'd give it a rest...
: O REALLY?? Was this around the time Michael was rehearsing for the HBO special?? Oh wow. Thank you so much for the info. Please tell me where u heard this. Thanks!!!
@faviola2001 Have U checked out her 1997 live performance {together again} awesome! So smooth it's like butter. SEXY but so CLASSY. 2 me that's her best award show. But anything Janet & Mike sing or routine they perform is gravy 2 me, because w/out it, it isn't a complete meal. They are just perfectionist, got 2 come correct. BLESS THEM BOTH, LUVUMORE M.J.
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Its just shows the difference in music today. When I was young and janet was coming out...we didn't diss Donna Summer, Diana Ross, etc because they were legends. They were still making music and we HONORED them.
Janet should be honored even if you're a Beyonce fan. PERIOD.
this is one of the best performances of MTV's history.....she wasn't the first MTV ICON for nothing....Janet is the real deal.......
"Sexiest belly button" truly became one of Janet's taglines. I was 15 when our group danced both these songs (separately) and I'm sure we didn't do it justice. This set of dancers and her choreographer, Tina, were AMAZING. I love Janet - always will. But I feel that this era of her is my favorite. #janetjackson is Queen!
Damn, Janet doesnt even need all the glamour and glitz, just some jeans and tank, she still kills that like no other, just the music and choreography!!!! Get It Janet!!!
I loved Janet's whole steez the night of this performance. This was the first performance EVER since the Rhythm Nation Era. I was pissed that she didn't win any awards that night, but to me it kinda worked out for her for this performance. She closed the show, u didnt see her the whole night until u saw her on stage. She didnt smile the whole performance. Her whole swagger that night was such a mysterious vibe. It was so cool! She looked amazing! ONLY JANET can werk a stage like that. Luv her!!!
I could just watch this over and over.
Janet is not Beyonce, ciara, madonna or even brother michael she's her own woman and she is WONDERFUL on her own!
This one of my favorite performances ever this was so smooth and fly 🔥
she looks stunning!
Oh my GOOOOOOODESSSS! ❤❤❤
Legend and Icon ❤❤
still one of the best live performances ever
Time to leave a positive comment! This by far is her greatest performances ever. I love how the two songs mesh and damn she is so EFFIN SEXY!!! She was robbed on her nominations though. I love and will always love Janet no matter what any hater has to say about her!!!!
In a recent interview JLo said "When I first saw Janet perform I thought to myself I want to be as good of a dancer as Janet one day, and I'm still trying"
i love how janet is britney biggest inspiration
This performance is iconic and I wasn’t even born yet, but a year later!!!!!🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Amazing performance. There aren't songs like this these days. Janet looks gorgeous, stunning and beautiful. This song is so smooth and just divine.
Nobody can do what Janet do... she is the best
TOO 5 PERFORMANCE LIST!!!❤❤❤❤❤
i love the slowed down intro to if
CLASSIC JANET!!!!
What an amazing performance!!! And what an amazing performer !!
The QUEEN OF POP JANET!!!!!
This is crazy and I put this on my life when I look back at old photographs from like 98(when I was 6) I can't even remember when I did any of that stuff but I can remember when and where I was when I first saw(heard) a Janet Jackson song and I remember always sitting by the radio all day so I can just hear a Janet song
everytime i look at this i drift back to that time frame... Janet is and will always be the best ever. i hate how so many pple try to compare her and Beyonce to eachother... they two different styles of sexy
Amazing performance...
Thanx for sharing.
Pure perfection she is dancing and singing live and this was not a easy routine. They can't touch
Im going to need Janet to make a come back RIGHT AWAY!!!
Love you Janet. That you for helping me with my OA.
This was one of the MTV Award's BEST EVER performances!!!!!
This was one of the MTV Award's BEST EVER performances!!!!!
OA ?
point blank...she IS the best
for ME there is NO female artist in the past 10 years that has made me want to them..and she just makes dancing and looking sexy sooo easy...
and i do agree she has the sexiest belly button lol, shes just THE best of the BEST...and i will always love her...xoxo Janet
I love the choreography... way to go Janet and her dancers!!!
Janet lit the show up with this performance!!! This way dynamic I have been searching for this video for a long time.
Janet is GODDESS for always and forever. No one can dance or groove better than her. But NO ONE except no subtitutes
Thanks for the original award show broadcast. Other versions have different camera angles
I remember watching this at the MTV music awards just wonderful
Damn! Go Janet!! This was my FAVE performance at the time. I remember it was the MTV 93 Music Awards. Her and Lenny Kravitz gave the best performances. He did Are You Gonna Go My Way!
I love how simple this performance is yet its one of the best in VMA History. Every artist is more about the "show" than the actual performance.
Gosh I can't tell you how many times I watched this performance as a kid. I LOVE JANET!!! She is the BEST!!! All others bow down. The QUEEN has arrived!!!
Simply the BEST!!
She is so amazing!
my favorite perforence of Janet i thank God for her
This is by far my favorite jante performance!!! I did this routine till my family hated it!!! lol but my grandmother loved to watch me dance to it!
I remember Toni Braxton said in an interview a few years back she wished she would've sang this song it's one of her favorites from the 90s
The Queen of Dance & Pop :))
I got on e AND a career. Which is more than I can say for both you and Janet. And it only took 4 days...Wow
The best performance from any Artist @ an MTV Awards Show...imo
wow she ABSOLUTELY Killed that performance, the absolut best femaie entertainer ever.
JANET IS THE BEST DIVA/ ICON Legendary QUEEN OF POP
I've loved this performnce forever but never seen it in this quality nor have I seen the beginning and ending!! Thank you soo much for uploading!!!
best performance live ever
Janet IS singing live! You can hear her breathe between verses and the songs are nothing like the album version. Girl is singing and dancing live. This performance is HOT.
I always lovbes when she does
IF live...especially the BReakdown part...
@phinearies THANK YOU! No need to compare! Both are good performers!
Love you Janet. That you for helping me with my OA.
Oh yes!! The Vibe interview where they had her on the cover with braids? The way she looked in "you want this" video?? I gotta find that magazine!! I read that article sooooo many years ago I don't really remember it. Thanks again for all the info. Now I kinda look at this performance in a whole new light. Can't believe i 4got those two events happened at the same time. Guess im gettin old. LOL XD
You know that Janet is a legend when you have all the haters who want to compare her to Beyonce. A.) Compare Beyonce to the girls in her peer group, which are Britney, Ciara and Rhianna. Janet created this style that they are desperately trying to bite. Janet has already BEEN THERE and DONE THAT in her career! Janet has nothing to prove!!!!! 37yrs in the game is ENOUGH PROOF!!!! Love you Janet!!!!
@clevawoman I agree, Janet should be honoured for her work in the past, she was a real artist regardless of her voice or not.
Janet's best performance, BAR NONE!
stunning!
I was 1 years old when she performed this.
Simply............. AMAZING!!! that's my girl!
Daaayyyuuummmm...I have never seen this !!!
I love her 90's style
2 0f my favorite songs
OMG that was great LOVE it
This was one of the MTV Award's BEST EVER performances!!!!!
AMAZING!
The chick with the short black hair and black bra-type thing on dancing next to Janet choreographed all this for her..one word: GENIUS!!!
i love uuuu janet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She's so smooth...compared to some like Beyonce and Britney who seem so tight and they dance really hard... Janet is smooth!!!
EVERY dancer was on point. they fucking KILLED this!
this is effin awesome!
as far as dancing a lot can dance but nobody does it more sexier than janet does.
@loriv77 well Imdb is wrong. Jennifer is not here. The dancers in this performane are: Nikki Patenburg, Kelly Konno, Shawnette Heard, Cynthia Davila, Tish Oliver, & Tina Landon. Jennifer only did the "That's The Way Love Goes" video, then she got the "Selena" role & started her acting career.
Janet paved the way for J-lo too!
I like beyonce but nobody compares to janet jackson thats reason why I LOVE HER
@clevawoman im a die hard beyonce fan and i love me some janet!
Thank You, someone other than me realizes what I've been saying the whole entire time !!!
Amazing
Janet Jackson in 1993 was the sexiest and most beautiful woman on earth !! ❤
Yeah I will have to agree with u on that!
Goddamn, Janet went OFF!
Janet Jackson is a fucking GODDEST!
Beyoncé be coping some of Janet style over the years and copying other astist too.
SOME? Please, from the holograms at her recent Tidal performance, to the sexual matter of Janet for her same self-titled album Beyonce, Beyonce has been leeching off Ms. Jackson. You'd think she'd give it a rest...
just for 2:13 - 2:23 alone this is going in my favorites ....(although all parts are wonderful...especially the early breakdown)
: O
REALLY?? Was this around the time Michael was rehearsing for the HBO special?? Oh wow. Thank you so much for the info. Please tell me where u heard this. Thanks!!!
overwhelming!!
work it janet!
@faviola2001 Have U checked out her 1997 live performance
{together again} awesome! So smooth it's like butter. SEXY but so CLASSY. 2 me that's her best award show. But anything Janet & Mike sing or routine they perform is gravy 2 me, because w/out it, it isn't a complete meal. They are just perfectionist, got 2 come correct. BLESS THEM BOTH, LUVUMORE M.J.
Was anyone hotter in 1993? She is absolutely stunning here. Even now, 16 years later, she's pretty fucking easy on the eyes.
so am i gonna get cussed out for saying love them both? i love janets moves and person and i love mariahs voice and diva... or do i have to choose?
@RetroDimeDiva
One of Janet's BETTER Live performances ♥ !
Preach!
@naturaluv85 thats a matter of opinion. and i was referring to her pre-meltdown, ofcourse not now.but i agree.on some levels.
wow janet is good.
if you can get this version of IF can anyone tell me how and if it's on youtube can you send me the link
yes! gone head let him know
actually it was live (taped) lol butthe 93 mtv music awards i remember when it came out no computer tricks in 93 lol
i think that this is the most sexiest choregoraphy i have ever seen.
what do u mean by "street dancer"