Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)

"Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)" was the last single from Mariah Carey's 9th album, Rainbow. The single was co-written by Mariah and Diane Warren, a rare feat considering Diane Warren is usually opposed to writing with other artists. The song was also co-produced by Mariah and the Flyte Time team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The song's epic motivational theme entails the struggles of dealing with people who put you down and other struggles, and how to deal with them and become succesful through faith, courage, and the power of God.

"Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)" marked a dark time for Mariah's singles as it was her first single to ever flop in her career. The single had been promoted actually as a double sided single along with her duet with Snoop Dogg, known as "Crybaby". Due to technical aspects of Billboard rules , it was actually "Crybaby" that charted on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Mariah's first song not to hit the top 20, as it peaked at Number #26.

Mariah Carey had not been happy with the promotion of the single, as evidented by negative messages left on her personal website considering the album's single releases. When Mariah had finally compromised on having the double sided single released as "Can't Take That Away"/"Crybaby", she found herself with more problems due to lack of promotion from her record company at the time, Sony, and a lack of healthy airplay for the singles.

The music video also faced problems of its own. The basic concept of the video showed Mariah along with clips of people who had overcome personal problems in their life to become succesful. The original video used dark captions which made it hard to see the clips of the people described in the video, and faced other controversy when at the song's climax, Mariah walks onto a balcony in pouring rain and passionately invokes her own depression in a very dramatic fashion. The revised video later released lightened the captions and kept the divalike dramatic of Mariah, although this time, kept indoors (while it continued to rain outside)

Remixes of this song also exsist, largely released only in the USA, although a few mixes can be found in other countries. The single was remixes by David Morales, and featuees 2 main mixes, The Morales Club Mix, a mix that uses the original vocals of "Can't That That Away (Mariah's Theme) with similar chord progressions of the orignal, and The Morales Triumphant Mix, a mix that featues resung vocals and new lyrics to transfrom the motiviational song into a cool breezy almost jazzlike mix complete with haromica sections too.