Can't Change Me

Infobox Single
Name = Can't Change Me


Artist = Chris Cornell
from Album = Euphoria Morning
B-side = "Flutter Girl",
"Nowhere But You"
Released = 1999
Format = CD single
Recorded = 1998
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:23
Label = Interscope
Producer = Chris Cornell
Natasha Shneider
Alain Johannes
Writer = Music & Lyrics: Chris Cornell
Last single = "Flutter Girl"
(1998)
This single = "Can't Change Me"
(1999)
Next single = "Preaching the End of the World"
(1999) Extra tracklisting
Album = Euphoria Morning
Type = studio
prev_track =
prev_no =
this_track = "Can't Change Me"
track_no = Track 1
next_track = "Flutter Girl"
next_no = Track 2

"Can't Change Me" is the first and only single released from Chris Cornell's solo album, "Euphoria Morning". A music video was produced for the song. Its filming was showcased in an episode of MTV's "Making the Video".

Release and Reception

"Can't Change Me" was released in early 1999 and turned out to be the biggest hit from the album commercially and the song had strong chart positions. "Can't Change Me" was the first Cornell single to chart but in late 1998 "Sunshower" charted in the US on the Modern and Mainstream chart. "Can't Change Me's" peak on the Mainstream rock Tracks was 5 and on the Modern Rock Tracks it's peak was 7. The song also charted in the UK where it's peak was 62 and became a minor hit outside the US.

Greg Tate of Rolling Stone said this about the song "Can't Change Me," is as rhapsodically gorgeous as pop gets, putting a spin on true love that any reprobate slacker can relate to: "She's going to change the world/But she can't change me/Suddenly I can see everything that's wrong with me/But what can I do?/I'm the only thing I really have at all." Cornell unveils a desire to be reckoned with as an openly wounded and unabashedly portentous rock balladeer." [ [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/chriscornell/albums/album/117330/review/5944598/euphoria_morning Rolling Stone review of Euphoria Morning] ]

Track listing

CD1
# "Can't Change Me" (Cornell)
# "Flutter Girl" (Cornell, Johannes, Shneider)
# "Nowhere But You"

CD2
# "Can't Change Me" (Cornell)
# "When I'm Down" (Cornell)
# "Can't Change Me" (Enhanced CD-Rom video)

Chart positions

References