Bobby Brown had his heart set on someone else before he met Whitney Houston. The "Can You Stand the Rain" singer, 53, shared in a new documentary that popstar Janet Jackson was the "crush" of his life as he remembered their relationship. "Janet was the crush of my life," Brown says in the "Biography: Bobby Brown" documentary. "What was it about Janet? Everything. Her little smile, body, her dance moves, her little laugh." Bobby Brown calls Janet Jackson the "crush of my life" in a new documentary titled "Biography: Bobby Brown." (Getty Images) Before Brown met Houston backstage of the Soul Music Train Awards in 1989, he was infatuated with Jackson.