I Can't Help It

Infobox Single
Name = I Can't Help It


Artist = Bananarama
from Album = Wow!
B-side = Ecstasy
Released = December 1987
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded = January 1987
Genre = Pop, Dance
Length =
Label = London Records
Writer = Matt Aitken, Sarah Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, Mike Stock, Pete Waterman, Keren Woodward
Producer = Stock Aitken Waterman
Last single = "Love in the First Degree"
(1987)
This single = "I Can't Help It"
(1987)
Next single = "I Want You Back"
(1988):"For the album by Betty Carter see I Can't Help It (album)"I Can't Help It" is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It is included on their fourth studio album "Wow!" and was released as its third single except in the U.S., where it was the album's second single (following "I Heard a Rumour") and Australia, where it was the album's fourth single (after "I Want You Back"). The track was co-written and produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) trio.

The song is a disco-influenced pop tune similar to many hits produced by SAW during this time period. Its suggestive lyrics and music video further perpetuated Bananarama's sensual visual image that the group began to incorporate with their previous album "True Confessions". The "I Can't Help It" video featured muscle men dancing, colorful backdrops, and Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward in a milk bath filled with fruit and naked men. Siobhan Fahey, extremely pregnant at the time, also appears but was only shown on camera from the shoulders up.

The single peaked at number twenty in the UK singles chart, #27 on the Australian ARIA chart (where it was released in August 1988 after I Want You Back), and just missed the top-forty on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. A hit in nightclubs, "I Can't Help It" climbed to number seven on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.

This is the final Bananarama single to feature Siobhan Fahey, who announced her departure shortly after its release.

The photos on the record sleeve were taken by famous American photographer Herb Ritts. The record sleeves for "I Can't Help It" and "Love in the First Degree" were switched with each other for the UK and North American markets.

Charts

Remixes

* "I Can't Help It" (Club Mix Edit) (Only found in video)
* "I Can't Help It" (Extended Club Mix)
* "I Can't Help It" (Hammond Excursion Version)