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"My All" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey from her sixth studio album, Butterfly (1997). It was released as the album's fifth and final single overall and second commercial single on April 21, 1998, by Columbia Records. The song was written and produced by Carey and Walter Afanasieff. "My All" is built around Latin guitar chord melodies, and makes subtle use of Latin percussion throughout the first chorus, before taking on a more conventional R&B-style beat. Carey was inspired to write the song and use Latin inspired melodies after a trip to Puerto Rico, where she was influenced by the culture. The song's lyrics tell of a lonely woman declaring she would give "her all" to have just one more night with her estranged lover. It is the first song Carey wrote for the Butterfly album.
The music video for the song was released in March 1998. It shows many scenes of Carey laying on a submerged vessel in a large body of water, while lamenting her lost lover. Towards the video's climax, Carey and her love interest climb atop a lighthouse and caress each other under the night's sky. "My All" was performed live on various occasions, including the 1998 World Music Awards and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Rosie O'Donnell Show and various European television and music chart programs. The song was also part of Carey's 1998 Butterfly World Tour, and was performed during many future tours and concerts. House music producer David Morales remixed the song, which was performed live as a medley with the original.
"My All" received acclaim from music critics and charted strongly throughout various music markets. In the United States, the song became Carey's thirteenth chart topper on the Billboard Hot 100, and was certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Throughout Europe, the song performed moderately, peaking at number four in the United Kingdom and in the top ten in Belgium (Wallonia), France, Spain and Switzerland. In France, due to strong sales, the song was certified gold by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP).
After the release of Daydream (1995), her fifth studio album on Columbia Records, American singer Mariah Carey entered couples therapy with her husband, Columbia executive Tommy Mottola. Carey was encouraged to have more independence after feeling personally and professionally stifled by Mottola, whom she feared due to his controlling nature and numerous associates in the entertainment industry. She met New York Yankees baseball player Derek Jeter at a dinner party and became romantic with him soon after. Due in part to Jeter's influence, Carey moved out of her New York mansion with Mottola in December 1996.
At a subsequent therapy session, Carey said she needed to visit Puerto Rico to relax and write. In reality, she had heard Jeter would be there and sought to continue their secret romance. After meeting Jeter at a club in San Juan, the couple spent the night at a villa. Carey immediately became enamored with him to the point where "desire became my reason for living, my all". She conceptualized the song "My All" on an airplane back to New York.
Carey, who had begun working on her new album Butterfly (1997) before meeting Jeter, continued to develop "My All" with her longtime collaborator Walter Afanasieff at her mansion's Crave recording studio. While working with a new Korg Trinity synthesizer, he came across an effect for steel-string acoustic guitar that resembled the sound of a Spanish guitar. After playing different chord changes, Afanasieff settled on "an old-fashioned sort of Russian, Latin-Spanish chord progression melody" which was influenced by his exposure to that music as a child and by Carey's time in Puerto Rico.
Due to her belief that the song "was about life and death", Carey insisted that "My All" have a "strong and simple" composition that made her vocals prominent in the mix while avoiding overpowering music. This formed a broader pattern of taking more creative control with the creation of Buttefly, as she also began working with hip-hop producers Sean Combs and Stevie J on other songs. According to Afanasieff, Carey "felt that shutting her relationship with [Mottola] was also a cleansing of who she was. She felt that part of what she was dropping was the schmaltzy pop singer ballad stuff he was kind of adamant about". "My All" would ultimately become one of Carey's last collaborations with Afanasieff.
Carey recorded "My All" at Afanasieff's WallyWorld studio in San Francisco, and additional work occurred at Crave and The Hit Factory in New York City. Dana Jon Chappelle and Mike Scott engineered the song with assistance from Ian Dalsemer. Afanasieff played the keyboards and added synthesizers and programming to the composition, while Dan Shea contributed additional keyboards, drum and rhythm programming, and the sound design and computer programming. After Mick Guzauski mixed "My All" at Crave, Bob Ludwig conducted the mastering at Gateway in Portland, Maine. Though she believed "there would be hell to pay" because Mottola would think she was having sex with another man, Carey believed the song "was the realest, boldest, most passionate love song" of her career. Upon playing "My All" to Mottola for the first time, she felt "he knew it could never be about him".
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My All
"My All" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey from her sixth studio album, Butterfly (1997). It was released as the album's fifth and final single overall and second commercial single on April 21, 1998, by Columbia Records. The song was written and produced by Carey and Walter Afanasieff. "My All" is built around Latin guitar chord melodies, and makes subtle use of Latin percussion throughout the first chorus, before taking on a more conventional R&B-style beat. Carey was inspired to write the song and use Latin inspired melodies after a trip to Puerto Rico, where she was influenced by the culture. The song's lyrics tell of a lonely woman declaring she would give "her all" to have just one more night with her estranged lover. It is the first song Carey wrote for the Butterfly album.
The music video for the song was released in March 1998. It shows many scenes of Carey laying on a submerged vessel in a large body of water, while lamenting her lost lover. Towards the video's climax, Carey and her love interest climb atop a lighthouse and caress each other under the night's sky. "My All" was performed live on various occasions, including the 1998 World Music Awards and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Rosie O'Donnell Show and various European television and music chart programs. The song was also part of Carey's 1998 Butterfly World Tour, and was performed during many future tours and concerts. House music producer David Morales remixed the song, which was performed live as a medley with the original.
"My All" received acclaim from music critics and charted strongly throughout various music markets. In the United States, the song became Carey's thirteenth chart topper on the Billboard Hot 100, and was certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Throughout Europe, the song performed moderately, peaking at number four in the United Kingdom and in the top ten in Belgium (Wallonia), France, Spain and Switzerland. In France, due to strong sales, the song was certified gold by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP).
After the release of Daydream (1995), her fifth studio album on Columbia Records, American singer Mariah Carey entered couples therapy with her husband, Columbia executive Tommy Mottola. Carey was encouraged to have more independence after feeling personally and professionally stifled by Mottola, whom she feared due to his controlling nature and numerous associates in the entertainment industry. She met New York Yankees baseball player Derek Jeter at a dinner party and became romantic with him soon after. Due in part to Jeter's influence, Carey moved out of her New York mansion with Mottola in December 1996.
At a subsequent therapy session, Carey said she needed to visit Puerto Rico to relax and write. In reality, she had heard Jeter would be there and sought to continue their secret romance. After meeting Jeter at a club in San Juan, the couple spent the night at a villa. Carey immediately became enamored with him to the point where "desire became my reason for living, my all". She conceptualized the song "My All" on an airplane back to New York.
Carey, who had begun working on her new album Butterfly (1997) before meeting Jeter, continued to develop "My All" with her longtime collaborator Walter Afanasieff at her mansion's Crave recording studio. While working with a new Korg Trinity synthesizer, he came across an effect for steel-string acoustic guitar that resembled the sound of a Spanish guitar. After playing different chord changes, Afanasieff settled on "an old-fashioned sort of Russian, Latin-Spanish chord progression melody" which was influenced by his exposure to that music as a child and by Carey's time in Puerto Rico.
Due to her belief that the song "was about life and death", Carey insisted that "My All" have a "strong and simple" composition that made her vocals prominent in the mix while avoiding overpowering music. This formed a broader pattern of taking more creative control with the creation of Buttefly, as she also began working with hip-hop producers Sean Combs and Stevie J on other songs. According to Afanasieff, Carey "felt that shutting her relationship with [Mottola] was also a cleansing of who she was. She felt that part of what she was dropping was the schmaltzy pop singer ballad stuff he was kind of adamant about". "My All" would ultimately become one of Carey's last collaborations with Afanasieff.
Carey recorded "My All" at Afanasieff's WallyWorld studio in San Francisco, and additional work occurred at Crave and The Hit Factory in New York City. Dana Jon Chappelle and Mike Scott engineered the song with assistance from Ian Dalsemer. Afanasieff played the keyboards and added synthesizers and programming to the composition, while Dan Shea contributed additional keyboards, drum and rhythm programming, and the sound design and computer programming. After Mick Guzauski mixed "My All" at Crave, Bob Ludwig conducted the mastering at Gateway in Portland, Maine. Though she believed "there would be hell to pay" because Mottola would think she was having sex with another man, Carey believed the song "was the realest, boldest, most passionate love song" of her career. Upon playing "My All" to Mottola for the first time, she felt "he knew it could never be about him".