Sources : My personal research, Wikipedia, Janet Jackson, For The Record by Chris Cadman & Craig Halstead.
ERA
RECORDING DATE
September 1992-March 1993.
STUDIO(S)
Flyte Tyme Studios (Agoura Hills)
The Cadillac Castle (Century City)
MusicTone LLC (Hollywood)
TBhits (Grand Hills, Los Angeles)
MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach
SONGWRITER(S)
Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
PRODUCER(S)
Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
RELEASE DATE :
May 18, 1993 (Janet)
May 11, 1994 (single)
LABEL
Virgin Records
LENGTH
7:08 (album version)
5:11 (R. Kelly remix)
ALTERNATE VERSIONS RECORDED BY MJ (covers and remixes by other artists are not included)
R. Kelly mix : American singer R. Kelly made a remix of the song, which along with the CJ’s 12″ Mix, appeared on Jackson’s 1995 remix compilation album Janet Remixed.
MUSICIANS
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SHORT FILM
Directed by : Keir McFarlane
Date of shooting : January 1994
Date of premiere : May 1994
Official release : On VHS in 1994 (Janet The Videos). On dvd in 2004 (From Janet to Damita Jo). On Janet’s You Tube official page.
LIVE PERFORMANCES ON TV SHOWS
May 14, 1994 : Janet performs “Throb” & “Anytime Anyplace” during the season finale of Saturday Night Live.
LIVE PERFORMANCES IN CONCERTS
Janet. World Tour (1993–1995)
State Of The World Tour (second leg 2018)
Metamorphosis (2019)
Concerts (2022)
Together Again Tour (2023–2024)
An instrumental interlude of the song was included on the Velvet Rope Tour in 1998 right before the performance of “Rope Burn”, where Jackson picks an unsuspecting member of the audience onto stage and teases them with her performance which included a lap dance.
It was later included on the 2008 Rock Witchu Tour, as an interlude for the performance of “Discipline”, on which she and her dancers pull up a male audience member and strap him into a harness; he was then suspended midair as Jackson teased him with a highly suggestive set of moves and the breathy soft-core porn of the track.
She repeated the performance during the 2010 Essence Music Festival. Additionally, an interlude of the song was included on the 2011 Number Ones, Up Close and Personal. It was also included on her 2015–16 Unbreakable World Tour, sampling Kendrick Lamar’s “Poetic Justice”. It was later added to her performances at the 2018 and 2022 Essence Music Festival, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, which she headlined.
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