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"Plaything"
Single by Rebbie Jackson
from the album R U Tuff Enuff
B-side"Distant Conversation"
ReleasedJanuary 1988 (1988-01)
Recorded1987
StudioThe Lab Recording Studios
(West Orange, New Jersey), Backdoor Recording Studios
(Huntington Station, New York)
Genre
LabelColumbia
Producer(s)David "Pic" Conley, David Townsend
Rebbie Jackson singles chronology
"You Send the Rain Away"
(1986)
"Plaything"
(1988)
"R U Tuff Enuff"
(1988)

Plaything is a song by American singer Rebbie Jackson, the first single from her third album R U Tuff Enuff. It reached #8 on the US R&B chart, making it her second biggest hit on that chart after 1984's Centipede.

After Centipede and You Send the Rain Away it was the third single of hers that had an accompanying music video (overall she has four, the video for Yours Faithfully was released ten years after Plaything.)

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