Produced by Juno Reactor, "Control" is a techno song with ambiguous lyrics about a dominant female who nurses a broken heart of her lover.

An instrumental version of "Control" was released on the soundtrack to the film Mortal Kombat (1995), which was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),[1] and earned Lords her first music award.

Inspired by James Bond, Lords portrays the female version of the character driving and walking in the streets of Los Angeles.

Lords began working on her debut album 1000 Fires (1995) in the spring of 1994 with producer Tom Bailey and his newly formed group Babble.

She was introduced to producer Ben Watkins of Juno Reactor who helped her incorporate techno rave sound to her record.

[5] Lyrically, the song appears to be about a dominant female who nurses a broken heart of her lover as she sings "Let me kiss it and make it better/After tonight you will forget her".

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that Lords is "poised to make a formidable splash in club waters" calling the song "wickedly contagious trance/rave stomper".

[4] Chuck Campbell from Knoxville News Sentinel said "Control" "is a great late-night dance song with appropriately self-assured lyrics".

[8] Andrew Mueller from Melody Maker described it as "a thumping if straightforward techno workout, doubtless intended to reinforce, musically and lyrically, Lords' refusal to compromise to the usual rules of pop as a second career.

Lords' long-time collaborator and director John Waters, with whom she had previously worked on films Cry-Baby (1990) and Serial Mom (1994), also appears in the video.