On December 4 , 2006 , Jackson opened the Billboard Music Awards with a medley of past hits " Control " , " The Pleasure Principle " and new single " So Excited " , accompanied by black and red-clad dancers . For her first tour in seven years Rock Witchu Tour in 2008 , she chose to open the show a medley with " The Pleasure Principle " , " Control " and " What Have You Done for Me Lately " . After an interlude , Jackson made her entrance amid fireworks and theatrical smoke to perform the medley , while donning a Mohawk hairstyle . While promoting her second greatest hits album '' Number Ones '' , the singer performed an eight-minute medley of six hits during the American Music Awards of 2009 . It included " Control " , " Miss You Much " , " What Have You Done for Me Lately " , " If " , " Make Me " , and finished with " Together Again " . She also included the song on her 2011 Number Ones : Up Close and Personal tour , 2015-2016 Unbreakable World Tour , and the 2017-2019 State of the World Tour . Jackson included the song at her 2019 Las Vegas residence Janet Jackson : Metamorphosis The spoken intro of " Control " was sampled on Kylie Minogue 's song " Too Much of a Good Thing " , from her 1991 album '' Let 's Get to It '' . In 2010 , the song was included in the '' Dance Central '' DLC setlist to be played using Kinect for the Xbox 360 . '' Glee '' covered the song in the episode " Hold On to Sixteen " , where the New Directions sang three songs originated by members of the Jackson family . Dianna Agron ( as Quinn Fabray ) opens the song with its spoken introduction , with leads sung by Darren Criss ( as Blaine Anderson ) and Kevin McHale ( as Artie Abrams ) . The song is included on the soundtrack album '' Glee : The Music , Volume 7 ''
American Music Awards of 2009
American Music Awards of 2009
Control (Janet Jackson song)