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"You're Mine (Eternal)" is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey included on her fourteenth studio album, Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse (2014). It was premiered on February 12, 2014, as the third single from the album. It was co-written and co-produced by Carey with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. An R&B-pop song, the lyrics revolve around the singer reminiscing about a past lover. Critical response to the song was positive: Carey's breathy vocal style and use of the Whistle register at the climax was earned praise from critics. It also garnered several comparisons to one of Carey's previous singles, "We Belong Together" (2005).

Background and release

On December 31, 2013, Carey appeared on NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly show to perform some songs. Before giving the audience some advise on love for 2014 and prior to singing the second single from Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse, "The Art of Letting Go", the singer announced that she would be releasing a new single on February 14, 2014, to coincide with Valentine's Day. On February 12, Carey premiered "You're Mine (Eternal)" as the third single to be released from the album.

In the United States, the song was released to contemporary, rhythmic, and urban adult contemporary radio stations around the country on February 18. An urban remix featuring vocals by American recording artist Trey Songz was also made available to download digitally on February 13. In an interview with MTV News, Carey praised Songz vocal ability, saying that most artists are not able to sing and rap while maintaining "a sound that's current yet also classic". Carey further released multiple dances remixes of "You're Mine (Eternal)", including the Jump Smokers Radio Remix, Jump Smokers Extended Remix, and Jermaine Dupri X Kurd Maverick Germany To Southside Remix. Additional remixes by Fedde Le Grand, Gregor Salto and Funkin' Matt, and Chus and Ceballos were released on March 15.

Composition

"You're Mine (Eternal)" is an R&B-pop love song co-written and co-produced by Carey and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. The song is composed in the key of D major using common time and a moderately slow feel of 75 beats per minute. Carey employs a breathy vocal style as she sings the lyric "I can't seem to live without your love". Lyrically, Carey is reminiscing about a past lover, singing "I can't seem to live without your love/ Suffocating here by myself/ Dying for your touch". Instrumentation consists of hypnotic, "smooth, steady" piano beat, which slowly builds to a climax with Carey sustaining a whistle note for a sustained period of time and the end of the song. Music Times writer Carolyn Menyes described the "up-and-down" melodic structure as "captivating", which causes the listener to be drawn "deep into Carey's musical abyss". The urban remix featuring Songz incorporates an enhanced pop feel compared to the original, with additional drums and Auto-Tune on Songz vocals. "You're Mine" garnered numerous comparisons to one of Carey's previous singles "We Belong Together" (2005). Alexa Camp of Slant Magazine was critical of the likeness between the two songs, writing that she was disappointed to hear a "retread" of "We Belong Together" following the positively received "retro" first and second singles "#Beautiful" featuring Miguel and "The Art of Letting Go", respectively.

Critical reception

Christina Garibaldi of MTV was complimentary of the song, praising Carey's "impressive" vocal range and specifically drawing attention to the high note that she ends the song with. Garibaldi stated that "You're Mine (Eternal)" serves as a reminder as to why Carey is "still the fiercest diva in the game". Writing for Billboard, Jason Lipshutz noted that the slow structure for the majority of the song could have made it a "sleepy" R&B song, but noted that the "inevitable" high note saves it from becoming so. Jamieson Cox of Time echoed Garibaldi's sentiments, writing "It's a gaseous, fluffy ballad that feels like a direct descendant of the song that rang in her mid-career renaissance, 2005's mega-hit 'We Belong Together': plinking piano melodies, a typically fluttering Carey vocal take, and a very similar beat. Only time will tell if 'You're Mine (Eternal)' can duplicate that song's record-breaking success".

Melinda Newman of HitFix questioned if Carey could have achieve success with the song, describing it as "breathless" and too reliant on on the singer's "vocal pyrotechnics". She continued to write that the song would most probably not achieve any success on the Billboard Hot 100, but would find "some love" on the adult contemporary and R&B radio stations. Jeff Benjamin of Fuse compared the production of the song to Carey's previous singles "Always Be My Baby" (1995) and "Touch My Body" (2008). He also wrote that the "drawn-out whistle" at the end of the song was "impressive". Carolyn Menyes for Music Times felt that Songz overshadowed Carey with his vocals on the urban remix. Slant Magazine writer Alexa Camp thought that while Carey's voice sounded good, Darkchild's production was "utterly trivial". She concluded by expressing that the remix featuring Songz was "slightly more interesting".

Chart performance

"You're Mine (Eternal)" made its first chart appearance in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2014, four days after its release. It debuted at number 87 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 16 on the UK R&B Chart. In the United States, it debuted at number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in its first week of release, with 32,000 downloads, accounting for 62% of its charting points. The song's charting on the Hot 100 makes it Carey's 46th entry since her debut in 1990; it is also her first song to enter the chart as a solo lead artist which is a non-festive/non-collaboration/non-cover song, the last time being "Obsessed" in 2009. On the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, it entered at number 24, while debuting at number at number 12 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs. It also entered the Hot R&B Songs chart at number 14. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the song has sold 56,000 digital downloads as of April 2014. "You're Mine (Eternal)" also reached number one on the Hot Dance Club Songs, making it her seventeenth number one on that chart.

Music video

The official music video for "You're Mine (Eternal)" was filmed at the El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico. It was co-directed by photographer Indrani and Carey, and premiered on MTV 7:50 p.m. ET/PT on February 12, 2014. Carey explained her directorial involvement and decision to shoot the video in Puerto Rico in a radio interview, saying:

"I would say it was a directorial collaborative effort. We went to the rainforest and that was interesting. Part of the reason was I love Puerto Rico one of my favorite places ever and I did one of my favorite videos, 'Honey', in Puerto Rico at the El Conquistador hotel. I was involved every step of the way ... I like a lot of the shots in the video ... There was a moment where I had to do an additional water sequence with no director, just myself and a camera man with an underwater camera. I was looking at the take at 5 in the morning, ready to kill me. But if we didn't have those shots there wouldn't be anything to cut away to, except me."

Scenes of the music video include Carey sitting bedside a river in the forest covered in gold glitter, sitting in front of waterfalls and tropical wildlife, and imitating a mermaid by swimming underwater while wearing an evening gown.

Live performances

Four days prior to its release, Carey performed the song for the first time at the BET Honors on February 8, 2014 and the show premiered on February 24, 2014. On February 13, 2014, Carey performed the song live while lighting up the Empire State Building in pink and red; she appeared with three couples who won a contest that gave them the opportunity to get married at the top of the building on Valentine's Day. The performance is expected to be taped later on TV.

Track listing

• Original Digital Download

1. "You're Mine (Eternal)" – 3:42

• Urban Remix Digital Download

1. "You're Mine (Eternal)"  – 4:12

• Dance Remix Streaming

1. "You're Mine (Eternal)"  – 5:25
2. "You're Mine (Eternal)"  – 3:27
3. "You're Mine (Eternal)"  – 4:07
4. "You're Mine (Eternal)"  – 3:39
5. "You're Mine (Eternal)"  – 5:39
6. "You're Mine (Eternal)"  – 4:34
7. "You're Mine (Eternal)"  – 7:01

Credits and personnel

Recording

• Recorded at Rapture Studios, Bel Air, CA; Metrocity Studios, New York, NY; Jungle City Studios, New York, NY; Studio at the Palms, Las Vegas, NV.
• Mixed at Ninja Beat Club, Atlanta, GA

Personnel

• Songwriting – Mariah Carey, Rodney Jerkins
• Production – Mariah Carey, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins
• Recording – Brian Garten, Matt Champlin and Greg Morgan
• Assistant recording – Keith Parry, Rob Katz
• Mixing – Phil Tan
• Assistant mixing – Daniela Rivera
• Background vocals – Mariah Carey

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse.

Charts

See also

• List of number-one dance singles of 2014 (U.S.)

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