I'm Cryin'

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"I'm Cryin'"
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Single by Shanice
from the album Inner Child
ReleasedFebruary 18, 1992
Genre R&B
Length5:07
Label Motown
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Narada Michael Walden
Shanice singles chronology
"I Love Your Smile"
(1991)
"I'm Cryin'"
(1992)
"Silent Prayer"
(1992)

"I'm Cryin'" is a song by American singer-songwriter Shanice, released in February 1992 as the second single from her second album, Inner Child (1991). It was the follow-up to her highly successful single "I Love Your Smile", and it peaked at number 11 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. A music video was also produced to promote the single.

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Critical reception

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Pop/urban ingenue follows the giddy "I Love Your Smile" with a mature and sensitive ballad. Grand production by Walden inspires a powerful vocal performance, which should help build momentum at several radio formats." [1] Michael Eric Dyson from Rolling Stone described the song as "a piercing lamentation of lost love, [that] slowly builds to a wailing climax." [2]

Track listing

  1. Radio Edit (3:46)
  2. Full Version (5:03)
  3. Instrumental (5:02)

Charts

Chart (1992)Peak
position
Germany (Official German Charts) [4] 47
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [5] 69
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 11

Notes and references

  1. Flick, Larry (February 22, 1992). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard . p. 76. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  2. Dyson, Michael Eric (March 19, 1992). "Recordings". Rolling Stone . Issue 626.
  3. deetownsounds.com Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine Accessed November 29, 2007
  4. "Shanice – I'm Cryin'" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  5. "Shanice – I'm Cryin'" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  6. "Shanice Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved February 20, 2020.

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