Can't Stop Won't Stop (Usher song)

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"Can't Stop Won't Stop"
Usher
from the album Looking 4 Myself
Recorded2012; Glenwood Place Studios (Burbank, California)
Genre
Length3:51
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)

"Can't Stop Won't Stop" is a song recorded by American recording artist

Keith Harris, the song contains an interpolation of the bridge to Billy Joel's 1983 hit single "Uptown Girl". Musically, "Can't Stop Won't Stop" is a eurodance and dance-pop song that incorporates elements of dubstep
.

"Can't Stop Won't Stop" received generally mixed reviews from

South Korea Gaon International Chart
, with sales of 9,374 digital copies.

Background

"Can't Stop Won't Stop" was written by

Keith Harris and William Adams. The production of the song was helmed by Harris and Adams under his stage name will.i.am.[1] Adams had previously written and produced Usher's 2010 single "OMG".[2] "Can't Stop Won't Stop" contains a portion of Joel's single "Uptown Girl" (An Innocent Man, 1983).[1] Mark "Exit" Goodchild recorded the song at Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, while Jacob Dennis served as recording assistant.[1] It was mixed by Dylan "3-D" Dresdow at Paper V.U. Studios North Hollywood with Jaime Martinez serving as a mixing assistant. The track's producers Harris and Adams provided the complete instrumentation of "Can't Stop Won't Stop".[1]

Composition

"Can't Stop Won't Stop"
A sample of "Can't Stop Won't Stop", a
synth
-heavy hook"
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"Can't Stop Won't Stop" is a

synth-heavy hook".[7]

Lyrically, the track regards the subject of sex. It tries to be a club jam by asking the listener to turn the volume up, "on the off chance that the record reaches the antennae of an extraterrestrial", with its opening lines: "Hey what's up / This is a jam, turn it up / Play it loud in the club / This is fire, burning it up".Unterberger noted that the lines "I don't want to do all the normal things / That all these other normal dudes do" could be the inspiration for the title of the album and its "thesis statement", while Rosen thought they could also "be describing Usher's career trajectory".[4][8] Ramirez was critical towards its "mediocre lyricism".[7]

Critical reception

"Can't Stop Won't Stop" received generally mixed reviews from

The Guardian called the song "horribly overblown",[5] while Trent of the Lava Lizard labelled the song as "forgettable".[12]

Brad Wete of

auto-tune of Usher's previous dance forays, so at least his whole register comes across cleanly."[14]

Credits and personnel

Recording and mixing
  • Recorded at Glenwood Place Studios, Burbank, California; mixed at Paper V.U. Studios North Hollywood, California
Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Looking 4 Myself, RCA Records.[1]

Chart

Upon the release of Looking 4 Myself, due to digital downloads "Can't Stop Won't Stop" debuted on the singles chart in South Korea. It debuted on the South Korea

Gaon International Chart at number 22 on June 10, 2012, with sales of 9,374 digital copies.[15] The next week, the song sold an additional 3,593 copies and fell to number 78.[16]

Chart (2012) Peak
position
South Korea Gaon International Chart[15]
 22

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Looking 4 Myself (inlay cover). Usher. RCA Records. 2012.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ Raymond v. Raymond (liner notes). Usher. Jive Records. 2010.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ a b Battan, Carrie (June 20, 2012). "Usher: Looking 4 Myself". Pitchfork. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  4. ^ a b c Rosen, Jody (July 16, 2012). "Can't Stop Won't Stop How Usher became a pop music institution". Slate. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  5. ^ a b Macpherson, Alex (June 7, 2012). "Usher: Looking 4 Myself - review". The Guardian. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  6. ^ Hadfield, Ryan (June 15, 2012). "Usher Finds New Sound on Looking 4 Myself". Time. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  7. ^ a b c Ramirez, Erika (June 8, 2012). "Usher's 'Looking 4 Myself': Track-by-Track Review - The Juice". Billboard. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  8. ^ a b Unterberger, Andrew (June 5, 2012). "Usher's 'Looking 4 Myself' Reviewed, "Can't Stop Wont Stop"". Popdust. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  9. ^ S, Nathan. "Usher - Looking 4 Myself". DJ Booth. Archived from the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
  10. ^ Youssef, Sobhi (June 15, 2012). "Usher Looking 4 Myself". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  11. ^ Enderson, Eric (June 18, 2012). "Usher: Looking 4 Myself". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  12. ^ Trent (June 19, 2012). "Album Review: Usher – 'Looking 4 Myself'". The Lava Lizard. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  13. Complex
    . Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  14. ^ Rytlewski, Evan (June 12, 2012). "Usher - Looking 4 Myself". The A.V. Club. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  15. ^
    Gaon Chart. Archived from the original
    on December 19, 2012. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  16. ^ "South Korea Gaon International Chart (Week, June 17, 2012 to June 23, 2012)" (in Korean). Gaon Chart. Archived from the original on December 19, 2012. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
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