"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" is a popular ballad by singer Michael Jackson featuring a duet with Siedah Garrett. It is the first single from Jackson's seventh album, Bad. He created "Todo Mi Amor Eres Tú", a Spanish version of the song. There is also a French version of the song called "Je Ne Veux Pas La Fin De Nous", which is featured on Bad 25. Written and composed by Jackson. It was originally intended to be a duet between Jackson and his woman of choice: either Barbra Streisand or Whitney Houston. Even Aretha Franklin and Agnetha Fältskog (formerly of ABBA) were offered the song, but all four had other obligations.
However, songwriter and Quincy Jones protégé Garrett, who wrote Jackson's song "Man in the Mirror", volunteered to sing with Jackson thus giving Garrett her first hit since Dennis Edwards' 1984 hit, "Don't Look Any Further". Garrett is quoted in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson that she was unaware she would be singing the song - although she had received a tape of it - until the day of the recording session, when Jones told her to step up to the microphone and sing it with Jackson.
The song became the first of five consecutive number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles from the Bad album. It also reached number one on the Billboard R&B and adult contemporary charts. It was Jackson's second number-one song on the AC chart (his first, coincidentally, had also been a duet: 1982's "The Girl Is Mine" with Paul McCartney). It was released without an accompanying music video. The song was re-released as a single in 2012, as part of Michael Jackson's Bad 25 campaign.
Originally, the song featured a spoken intro by Jackson backed with a longer version of the opening music. This intro was mixed out on future releases of Bad and compilation albums.
Read more about I Just Can't Stop Loving You: Background and Writing, Critical Reception, Chart Performance, Live Performances, Releases, Personnel, Covers, 2012 Reissue
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