It was later publicly revealed that the track borrowed from Maurice White's " Best of My Love", written for the band The Emotions. The sheet music of the song has a 8va marking on the last part of the song. Carey's vocal range spans more than four octaves on the track, from C 3 to E 7, with the highest note being sung with arpeggios.
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"Emotions" is a "new-disco" song and is written in the key of A minor with a tempo of 115 beats per minute. Problems playing this file? See media help. It received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 34th Annual ceremony. Internationally, it was a moderate success, topping the Canadian Singles Chart, and reaching the top 10 in Greece, Netherlands, and New Zealand. The song became Carey's fifth consecutive number one song in the United States, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, making her the first (and till date) the only act to have their first five singles top the chart. "Emotions" received positive reviews from music critics, who mainly praised Carey's vocal performance. The song's lyrics has its protagonist going through a variety of emotions from high to low, up to the point where she declares, "You got me feeling emotions." Musically, it is a gospel and R&B heavily influenced by 1970s disco music and showcases Carey's upper range and extensive use of the whistle register. It was written and produced by Carey, Robert Clivillés, and David Cole of C+C Music Factory and released as the album's lead single on August 13, 1991. " Emotions" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey for her second studio album of the same name (1991).