![]() The song earned Usher a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards on February 13, 2011. Ī sample of "There Goes My Baby", in which Usher makes heavy usage of his falsetto range. Problems playing this file? See media help. "There Goes My Baby" is a, "slinky" down-tempo R&B ballad, with infused hints of neo soul. It is composed in a "moderate groove" of eighty beats per minute, and is set in common time. ![]() It is written the key of A major and Usher's vocals span from the low note of E 3 to high note of C 5. It follows the chord progression A–F maj7–G. The song makes use of Usher's falsetto range, which was warmly received by critics. Edna Gunderson of USA Today called Usher's falsetto "charming." Jaime Gill of Yahoo! Music UK said that the song was a delight and that its falsetto tenderness was absent in the rest of the work. Tyler Lewis of PopMatters said the song featured "nice falsetto work" from the singer, while Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly coined the song a "falsetto-laced plea." Īndy Kellman of Allmusic noted the track as a standout from Raymond v. Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that the sweetness of Usher's falsetto balanced out the album's "boilerplate swagger." Fraser McAlpine of BBC Music thought that the song recalled Usher's past slow jams, coining it, "a sumptuous deep-pile carpet of seductive song." Ashante Infantry of the Toronto Star said the song was one of the best on the album, and said that it was a "steamy slow jam." Calling the song "decent," James Reed of the Boston Globe thought the lyrical content was hollow. It fell off the next week, but upon its release as a single it re-entered at number 100, and eventually reached number twenty-five.Ĭalling it a low-point of the album, Matthew Cole of Slant Magazine said that the song was "sappy." Chart performance Īs a promo single, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number seventy-one solely from digital downloads. It topped the US R&B/Hip-Hop chart for four consecutive weeks, giving Usher his eleventh number-one hit on that chart, and to date spent there the huge amount of 71 weeks. With eleven top singles on the chart, Usher tied with R. Kelly and Ray Charles on the Stevie Wonder-led list of most number ones since the inception of the chart. Raymond, the single was also Usher's fourth consecutive top ten song on the R&B chart, a feat not matched by him since his Confessions era. "There Goes My Baby" was also Usher's fourth consecutive top forty song on the Hot 100, another feat not matched since Confessions. The accompanying music video for the song was filmed on June 16, 2010, in Malibu, California, and directed by Anthony Mandler. Preparing his physique for the filming, the singer told People, "At 31, when you take your shirt off, you must have it together!" A preview of the video was released on July 12, 2010, and the full video premiered on 106 & Park and Vevo on July 13, 2010. Usher there goes my baby year release album full#.
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