I Love Your Smile

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"I Love Your Smile"
Shaniceiloveyoursmile.jpg
Single by Shanice
from the album Inner Child
ReleasedOctober 22, 1991
Genre
Length
  • 4:19 (album version)
  • 3:56 (radio version)
  • 3:50 (Driza Bone single remix)
Label Motown
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Narada Michael Walden
Shanice singles chronology
"This Time"
(1988)		"I Love Your Smile"
(1991)		"I'm Cryin'"
(1992)
Music video
"I Love Your Smile" on YouTube

"I Love Your Smile" is a song by American singer-songwriter Shanice, released in October 1991 by Motown as the lead single from her second studio album, Inner Child (1991). The song was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and the radio version removes the rap bridge from the album version. It features a saxophone solo by Branford Marsalis as well as laughter from Janet Jackson and René Elizondo Jr. near the end of the song. To date, "I Love Your Smile" is Shanice's best known and most successful hit. [1]

Contents

It peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 on February 1, 1992, and it topped the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart for 4 weeks in December 1991 and January 1992. In Europe, "I Love Your Smile" peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart after being remixed by Driza Bone and reached the top of the Dutch Top 40 in the Netherlands. In 1992, it was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Shanice performed the song as the first musical guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on May 25, 1992. [2] A music video was produced to promote the single, featuring Shanice in a studio having pictures taken by a photographer. The video was made available on Shanice's official YouTube channel on May 12, 2023.

Critical reception

AllMusic editor Tim Griggs named "I Love Your Smile" a "standout" from Inner Child . [3] J.D. Considine from The Baltimore Sun felt that here, Narada Michael Walden "gets a knock-out performance" from Shanice. He added that her "sunny delivery, backed by a breezy, Euro-pop arrangement and a rock-steady appearance by saxophonist Branford Marsalis, makes this the kind of tune you wouldn't expect from anyone still in Clearasil's primary target group." [4] Larry Flick from Billboard described it as a "slinky R&B tune", remarking that Shanice's "matured voice sounds like a cross between Chaka Khan and Janet Jackson, sprawling out comfortably over a subtle and percussive groove that is framed with warm sax lines." [5] DeVaney and Clark from Cashbox stated, "Compared to her previous projects, you can clearly tell that Wilson has matured both musically and vocally to take this project to its limits." [6] Martin Johnson from Chicago Reader declared it "an ideal guilty pleasure". [7] A reviewer from Ealing Leader found that "this little bundle of dynamite shows great promise with a warm debut single." [8] Swedish Expressen noted its "whispering happy jingle". [9]

Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report wrote, "Only in her teens, Shanice Wilson is anything but a newcomer, having arrived on the scene in the late eighties and scoring instant airplay. But this should be the effort that really sparks her career." [10] Lakeland Ledger described her voice as "playful and spunky". [11] Alan Jones from Music Week's RM Dance Update declared it as "a likeable and highly commercial pop/dance workout, [and] it will doubtless be a hit on both sides of the Atlantic." [12] Another RM editor, James Hamilton, called it a "delightful breathily gurgling, humming, whistling, tinkling and (Branford Marsalis's jazz sax) tooting jiggly jogging cheerful swayer". [13] A reviewer from People Magazine stated that it "has risen to the top of the R&B charts on its jaunty, literally bells-and-whistles riff, its jazzy a cappella refrain and a walloping beat." [14] Michael Eric Dyson from Rolling Stone viewed it as "a sparkling midtempo confession of love" framed by Marsalis' sax. [15] Mark Frith from Smash Hits praised it as an "infectious swingbeat tune", giving it four out of five. [16] Jonathan Bernstein from Spin felt that Shanice "brought sheer, unalloyed joy to the charts and our hearts with her "I Love Your Smile". Exuberance isn't a feature of too many records these days—maybe some Helmet, the early stuff—but this singer sounded giddy with delight on her hit." [17]

Impact and legacy

NME ranked "I Love Your Smile" number 50 in their list of "Singles of the Year" in December 1992. [18] Freaky Trigger ranked it number 34 in its list of "Top 100 Songs of All Time" in 2005.[ citation needed ] Robert Dimery featured it in his 2015 book, 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download,[ citation needed ] while Bruce Pollock featured it in his 2005 book, The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000.[ citation needed ] Polish Porcys ranked "I Love Your Smile" number 46 in their list of "100 Singles 1990–1999" in 2012, writing, "The career of the singer did not flourish somehow stunning, but this one song, this one "turutututururu" is immortal. This sweet chorus has probably one of the most naturally catchy melodies of all time." [19]

Track listings

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [58] Silver200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionVersionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesOriginalOctober 22, 1991Cassette Motown [ citation needed ]
United KingdomNovember 11, 1991
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • cassette
 [59]
November 18, 1991CD [60]
Driza Bone remixFebruary 10, 1992
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 [61]
JapanOriginalMarch 25, 1992Mini-CD [62]

Cover versions

See also

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