TRACK INFORMATION
Artist : Mariah Carey
Title Track : My All
Album : Butterfly
Label : Sony
Genre : Pop, R&B
Release : 21 April 1998
CHART PERFOMANCE
#4 UK SINGLE CHART
#5 US BILLBOARD HOT DANCE CLUB PLAY
#1 US BILLBOARD HOT100
#- EUROCHART HOT 100 SINGLES
SONG INFORMATION
"My All" is a song written by American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff for Carey's seventh album, Butterfly (1997). It is built around a Latin guitar, Latin chord, and also makes subtle use of Latin percussion in the first chorus, before taking on a more conventional contemporary R&B-style beat. Its protagonist declares she would give "her all" to have just one more night with her estranged lover. It was released as the album's fifth and final single in 1998 (see 1998 in music). It was produced by Carey and Afanasieff with keyboards by Afanasieff and producer Dan Shea.
Although "My All" was the fourth single released from Butterfly, it was only the third major single release and the second commercial release in the U.S. It was released worldwide beginning in April 1998. "My All' also has been released in Spanish Version entitle "Mi Todo". It's very rare and not her best perfomance.
MUSIC VIDEOThe single's video, shot entirely in black and white and on location in Puerto Rico, was one of the last music videos directed by fashion photographer Herb Ritts before he died. The video (released in March 1998) starts with Carey lying on an overturned rowboat in the ocean and progresses to her exploring the beach past flowers and a beam from the beach's lighthouse. The images of Carey lying in the shell and in front of the flowers were inspired by Sandro Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus. The video climaxes to a scene where Carey and her lover make love, but then ends with Carey alone. The video was later re-edited and released as the official video for the "Classic Club Radio Mix".
Although "My All" was the fourth single released from Butterfly, it was only the third major single release and the second commercial release in the U.S. It was released worldwide beginning in April 1998. "My All' also has been released in Spanish Version entitle "Mi Todo". It's very rare and not her best perfomance.
MUSIC VIDEOThe single's video, shot entirely in black and white and on location in Puerto Rico, was one of the last music videos directed by fashion photographer Herb Ritts before he died. The video (released in March 1998) starts with Carey lying on an overturned rowboat in the ocean and progresses to her exploring the beach past flowers and a beam from the beach's lighthouse. The images of Carey lying in the shell and in front of the flowers were inspired by Sandro Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus. The video climaxes to a scene where Carey and her lover make love, but then ends with Carey alone. The video was later re-edited and released as the official video for the "Classic Club Radio Mix".
My All - Lyric
I am thinking of you
In my sleepless solitude tonight
If its wrong to love you
Then my heart just wont let me be right
Cause Ive drowned in you
And I wont pull through
Without you by my side
I'd give my all to have
Just one more night with you
Id risk my life to feel
Your body next to mine
Cause I cant let go on
Living in the memory of your song
Id give my all for your love tonight
Baby can you feel me
Imagining Im looking in your eyes
I can see you clearly
Vividly emblazoned in my mind
And yet youre so far
Like a distant star
Im wishing on tonight
Id give my all to have
Just one more night with you
Id risk my life to feel
Your body next to mine
Cause I cant let go on
Living in the memory of your song
Id give my all for your love tonight
Id give my all to have
Just one more night with you
Id risk my life to feel
Your body next to mine
Cause I cant let go on
Living in the memory of your song
Id give my all for your love tonight...
