High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Control is the third studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson, released on February 6, 1986 by A M Records. Her collaborations with songwriters and record producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis resulted in an unconventional sound: a fusion of rhythm and blues, funk, disco, rap vocals, and synthesized percussion that established Jackson, Jam and Lewis as the leading innovators of contemporary R B. It enabled Jackson to transition into the popular music market, becoming one of the defining albums of the 1980s and contemporary music.