I Can't Help It
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Channel: Michael Jackson - Topic
Views: 5,170,536
Rating: 4.8074532 out of 5
Keywords: Michael Jackson, マイケルジャクソン, 麥可傑克森, Off the Wall, I Can't Help It
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Length: 4min 29sec (269 seconds)
Published: Mon Feb 13 2017
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“The stars aligned for “I Can’t Help It”: Steve Wonder, Quince Jones and Michael Jackson are all here,at the top of their games. It makes you wonder what a whole album might have sounded like, with these three legends’unique mix of abilities.
...Wonder decided the song would be perfect for Michael Jackson. While the foundation remained the same, the track underwent a major overhaul . According to Greg Phillinganes,the demo Wonder sent was “a lot more Latin influenced...and it was based more off of an acoustic piano... Since Greg had previously worked with Steve , Jones tasked him with tayloring the arrangement for Jackson. His first attempt, however, failed. Jones wanted the song to be slower and sexier.
“I Can’t Help It” offered Jackson a new style as a vocalist. Already he had shown he could do R&B , Disco, Funk, Soul, even a Broadway ballad. But the lush jazz vibe of “I Can’t Help It” broke new ground. The song is about a mysterious lover who has enchanted the singer. He narrates : “Looking in my mirror/ Took me by surprise/ I can’t help but see you/ Running often through my mind”... Listen to how Jackson allows the endings of words to take off, mimicking the fleeting feel of her memory.
Likewise the sensual, ethereal lyrics float on the melody, rendering the weightlessness of being in love... toward the end of the song, the lyrical descriptions dissolve into wordless exultation, signifying the ecstasy of intimacy that simply can’t be expressed in language. This is Jackson at his most sublime”...
— Joe Vogel , “MAN IN THE
MUSIC: The Creative Life And Work of MJ”