Janet Jackson performed the song Someone to Call My Lover, released on the album All for You in 2001. The first single from this album was All for You, the second was Someone to Call My Lover, and the third was Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You). The album was recorded at Flyte Tyme Studios, in Edina, Minnesota.
The song was written and produced by Janet Jackson, James Harris III and Terry Lewis. At the time of recording, Jackson had just divorced her husband of almost ten years, René Elizondo, Jr., and many of the songs on the album have a theme of love and divorce.