I'm Leavin' (Lisa Stansfield song)


"I'm Leavin'" is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 1997 eponymous album. It was written by Crayge Lindesay and Telisa Stinson, and produced by Ian Devaney and Peter Mokran. The song was released as the last promotional single from Lisa Stansfield in the United States on 9 February 1998.
The track was remixed by Grammy Award-winning American dance producer, Hex Hector. In April 1998, "I'm Leavin'" became Stansfield's seventh song to top the Billboards Hot Dance Club Songs and fourth from Lisa Stansfield to do so.
This success on the dance chart prompted Arista Records to release The Remix Album in June 1998, which included two remixes of "I'm Leavin'." Eight years later, on 6 June 2006, Dance Vault Mixes with five of Hex Hector remixes were released digitally in the United States. In 2014, "I'm Leavin'" was included on People Hold On... The Remix Anthology and The Collection 1989–2003.

Critical reception

The song received favorable reviews from music critics, who called it a melancholy ballad that "absolutely shines" as a dance track, and should have become a hit. Billboard described the song as a "intensely soulful, heartbreaking ballad" and noted further that Stansfield "offers her strongest, most commercially viable single since "All Woman"". They also stated that "lyrically, it stretches miles beyond standard love-gone-wrong fodder, and La Lisa delivers a vocal that is straight from the gut. Every syllable drips with raw, empathetic emotion. If you're not in the mood for a slow jam". Natasha Stovall from Rolling Stone commented that Stansfield sounds "edgy – even harsh – when she's staring, eyes appropriately red-rimmed, at a broken affair" in the song.

Track listings

US promotional CD single
  1. "I'm Leavin'" – 4:18
  2. "I'm Leavin'" – 4:37
US promotional 12" single
  1. "I'm Leavin'" – 10:08
  2. "I'm Leavin'" – 4:19
  3. "I'm Leavin'" – 10:09
  4. "I'm Leavin'" – 3:08
European promotional CD single
  1. "I'm Leavin'" – 4:17
  2. "I'm Leavin'" – 10:06
UK promotional 12" single
  1. "I'm Leavin'" – 10:06
  2. "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" – 8:54
  3. "Never Gonna Fall" – 7:12
2006 US digital Dance Vault Mixes
  1. "I'm Leavin'" – 10:08
  2. "I'm Leavin'" – 9:53
  3. "I'm Leavin'" – 4:19
  4. "I'm Leavin'" – 10:09
  5. "I'm Leavin'" – 3:08

    Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts