Synclavier/Macintosh Programming – Gary Cirmelli.

Synclavier/Akai Programming – Ren Klyce.

Keyboards, Synthesizers, Synthesizer Bass, Synclavier Acoustic Guitar, Drums and Percussion Arrangement and Programming – Walter Afanasieff.

Production – Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff.

Music – Mariah Carey, Walter Afanasieff.

Recorded at Skywalker Sound, Marin Country The Plant Recording Studios, Sausalito Right Track Recording, NYC.

However, after being reviewed, the only guilty fear apparent was Mariah Carey quoted as saying 'Can't Let Go' was sounding 'too much like our other song.' The lawsuit was later dropped or settled out of court.

In 1992, writers Sharon Taber and Ron Gonzalez filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Carey and Afanasieff citing that 'Can't Let Go' was taken from their unknown song, 'Right Before My Eyes.' The plaintiffs demanded to obtain copies of the studio recording tapes to see if conversation between Carey and Afanasieff would prove them guilty. In 2015, rapper Rick Ross released a remix version of the song on his eighth studio album Black Market, titled 'Can't Say No', in which Carey re-recorded her part with various new lyrics. singles, 'Can't Let Go' won a BMI Pop Award in 1993.

Usage in other media Ī radio edit of the song was promoted to radio and used for the video instead of the original song, and the edit eliminates the seraphic pre-intro and removes all of Carey's high notes at the song's beginning and end. Filmed in black and white, the video starts and closes with shots of a rose open and closed respectively.

The single's accompanying music video, directed by Jim Sonzero, features Carey wearing an evening gown and her hair in a bun. It became her lowest peaking single at the time in all of the major Anglophone singles markets (with the exception of the UK), and failed to make the Australian top 50. 'Can't Let Go' reached number three in Canada and the top 20 in the UK. 'Can't Let Go' ranked 23rd on the 1992 Hot 100 year-end charts. The song topped the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, where it became Carey's fourth number one single the next single ' Make It Happen' would break that streak. The record company had taken the single off from sales before it could reach number 1, in an attempt to boost sales of Emotions. 'Can't Let Go' ended the streak when it reached number two, and spent 17 weeks in the top 40. Chart performance Ĭarey's first five American singles had reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. On the song, Sian Pattenden from Smash Hits described Carey as 'the Nanette Newman of pop'. Rob Tannenbaum of Rolling Stone wrote that 'moody grandeur' of this song will sound great on radio. Her voice still has that crystal-clear sound that has hypnotized listeners of all sorts.' Los Angeles Times editor Dennis Hunt said that in this song Mariah is playing a wounded lover. In our opinion, this should have been the first single taken off the album. Larry Flick from Billboard described it as a 'rhythmic R&B/ pop ballad', adding, 'Her now-trademark vocal acrobatics are showcased amid gospel-spiced harmonizing and dramatically executed instrumentation.' Randy Clark and Bryan DeVaney from Cashbox commented, 'This time Carey is slowing down the pace from the first single ' Emotions'. Battel wrote that 'yearning cries for a lost love in 'Can't Let Go' serves to send the listener on a musical journey through time filled with varying emotions. Critical reception ĪllMusic editor Ashley S. Mariah's vocals range from the low note of F 3 to the high note of B 6, at a moderately slow tempo of 81 beats per minute, according to. 'Can't Let Go' is written in the key of F major (with minor interminglings), ascending up to F ♯ major (with similar qualities) to close the song out - a common pop tonal effect. 'Can't Let Go' was later included on Carey's compilation album The Ballads (2008). After the release of the single ' Emotions,' 'Can't Let Go' was promoted on both The Arsenio Hall Show in September 1991 and Saturday Night Live in November 1991 when she was the musical guest in the episode which featured Linda Hamilton as the host. She chose Walter Afanasieff, who had produced her second single ' Love Takes Time' (1990), and 'Can't Let Go' was one of the songs they created. The protagonist of this synthesizer-heavy ballad laments an ex-lover who has moved on, and though she tries she 'can't let go.'Ĭarey had fallen out with her songwriting partner Ben Margulies following a financial dispute, and her record label suggested that she work with the other producers of her debut album such as Rhett Lawrence, Ric Wake and Narada Michael Walden. It was released as the album's second single in the fourth quarter of 1991 in the United States and the first quarter of 1992 elsewhere. ' Can't Let Go' is a song by American singer Mariah Carey from her second album, Emotions (1991).

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