Doesn't Really Matter

"Doesn't Really Matter"
Song

"Doesn't Really Matter" is a 2000 single by American R&B/pop singer Janet Jackson for the film Nutty Professor II: The Klumps and for her own album, All for You.

Song information

The song was the lead single from the Universal Pictures film Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, in which Jackson co-starred with actor Eddie Murphy. It became Jackson's ninth number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and first in the 2000s, staying atop for three weeks, and also making Jackson the first artist in history to score number-one singles in the '80s, '90s, and '00s. Jackson didn't think that the song would be as big a hit as it was, as she just wrote it for the film. Lyrically the song is about a woman who is in love with a man that loves her, too. She sings that doesn't matter what outside forces think, how he looks or the size of his bank account. An alternate mix of the song was later included on Jackson's seventh studio album, All for You in 2001. This version is the one she performed during the MTV Music Awards in 2000.

Music video

The video (released June 26, 2000 on MTV's Making the Video), directed by Joseph Kahn, features Jackson in an abstract anime-based sci-fi like world. The video begins with a postcard dropping to the ground. It then gets shuffled by the foot of different pedestrians. The card then reads "Hello, wish you were here..." There is then a panout view of different apartment buildings. Inside one there is a mechanical dog on the floor while Janet sleeping on the bed. She awakens and begins sing the song. Her nails transform from plain to an aray of decorative colors. She gets up and begins to listen to music, going into a refrigerator grabbing a drink and looking at herself in a mirror. Janet changes clothes and upon opening the front door looks through the peephole. She sees four friends smiling at the her on the other side. They then dance down the hall--in which Janet's footwear changes. All five women then appear on a disk-like surface that slants for time-to-time--on which their clothing changes once. The girls then appear in a car with Janet as the driver. Janet then flips the air/heating passage. The camera travels throughout the car then outside with a view of the original apartment buildings. Janet is then seen in her clothing that she left the her apartment in. Shen then is seen falling backwards with a serene, yet happy, look on her face--onto her bed. Her dog appears rolling in then stops on all four legs on his stomach. There are also scenes of Janet and others drawing circles with their hand in thin air--from their hand appearing a ray of light.

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Singles & Tracks	3
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/ Maxi Singles Sales	9
ARC Top 40	1
UK Singles Chart	5
Australian Singles Chart	28
Danish Singles Chart	8
South African Sales Chart	3
German Singles Chart	23
Finnish Singles Chart	18
Japan J-Wave Tokio Hot 100	1
Dutch Singles Chart	18
Canadian Singles Chart	6
Belgian Singles Chart	18
Norwegian Singles Chart	3
Swedish Singles Chart	14
Swiss Singles Chart	17
Italian Singles Chart	14

Track listing

US 5" CD-single

1. Doesn't Really Matter (Original Version Radio Edit) (4:18)
2. Doesn't Really Matter (Rockwilder Mix) (5:04)
3. Doesn't Really Matter (Jonathan Peters Club Mix) (8:49)
4. Doesn't Really Matter (Original Version Instrumental) (4:41)
5. Doesn't Really Matter (Spen Sane Get Up Extended Mix) (6:33)
6. Doesn't Really Matter (Jonathan Peters Sound Factory Dub) (8:31)

UK 12" Vinyl Maxi Single

1. Doesn't Really Matter (Original Version Radio Edit) (4:18)
2. Doesn't Really Matter (Rockwilder Mix) (5:04)
3. Doesn't Really Matter (Jonathan Peters Club Mix) (8:49)
4. Doesn't Really Matter (Original Version Instrumental) (4:41)
5. Doesn't Really Matter (Spen Sane Get Up Extended Mix) (6:33)
6. Doesn't Really Matter (Jonathan Peters Sound Factory Dub) (8:31)

UK 5" CD-single

1. Doesn't Really Matter (Radio Edit) (4:18)
2. Doesn't Really Matter (Rockwilder Mix) (5:04)
3. Doesn't Really Matter (Jonathan Peters Club Mix) (8:49)
4. Doesn't Really Matter (Video)

Australia 5" CD-single

1. Doesn't Really Matter (Radio Edit) (4:18)
2. Doesn't Really Matter (Rockwilder Mix) (5:04)
3. Doesn't Really Matter (Jonathan Peters Club Mix) (8:49)
4. Doesn't Really Matter (Video)

Official Versions/Remixes

• Original/Soundtrack Version (4:55)
• Album Version (from "All For You") (4:25)
• Radio Edit (4:16)
• Instrumental (4:38)
• Soundtrack To The Video (4:36)
• Jonathan Peters Club Mix (8:49)
• Jonathan Peters Soundfactory Dub (8:31)
• Spensane Get Up Extended Mix (6:33)
• Spensane Get Up Dub Mix (4:10)
• Rockwilder Mix/Dance All Day Extended Mix (5:01)
• Rockwilder Instrumental (4:59)
• Call Out Research Hook (0:14)

Trivia

• This song appears in Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA, the latest arcade mix in the series.

• A cover version of this song was performed by Hitomi Shimatani in Japanese entitled "Papillon". Janet Jackson's name is seen in the credits of this single.

• The video was featured on an episode of MTV's Making the Video.

• The video uses a very rare aspect ratio of 1:1, i.e. a square picture frame, with pillar boxing black bars on the sides to fill the rest of the screen.

• The efficiency apartment shown in the video is reminiscent of Korben Dallas' apartment in The Fifth Element.