You're Makin' Me High

"You're Makin' Me High" is the lead single from Toni Braxton's second studio album, Secrets (1996). A joint collaboration between the Grammy Award-winning producer Babyface and Bryce Wilson resulted in this mid-tempo song. The song was issued in the United States as a double A-side with "Let It Flow", the airplay hit from the 1995 motion picture Waiting to Exhale.

It became Braxton's first number-one single on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts; it remained atop for one week on the former and for two weeks on the latter, eventually going platinum by the RIAA. A dance remix by Morales allowed the single to also top the Hot Dance Club Play chart for two weeks in August 1996. Another remix for urban markets was created featuring rapper Foxy Brown and called the "Groove Mix."

The song earned Braxton her third Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in 1997. The success of "You're Makin' Me High" would later be continued with the release of "Un-Break My Heart". The song was sampled for Method Man & Redman's 2001 song "Part II", from the How High soundtrack.

Music video

The music video, directed by Bille Woodruff, features Braxton and a group of friends (consisting of actresses Tisha Campbell-Martin, Erika Alexander, and Vivica A. Fox) enjoying themselves in luxurious surroundings. An elevator brings up a series of men, some very attractive and others amusingly unattractive. Braxton and her friends "judge" the men using oversized playing cards as score cards. Periodically, one of the women will choose a man to leave with. Braxton chooses Bryce Wilson and they are shown together in a bathtub of cotton candy and on a dance floor.

Track listings and formats

European CD maxi single

1. "You're Makin' Me High" (Radio Edit) – 4:07
2. "You're Makin' Me High" (Album Version) – 4:26
3. "You're Makin' Me High" (Morales Classic Edit) – 3:35
4. "You're Makin' Me High" (Morales Classic Mix) – 9:41

UK CD 1

1. "You're Makin' Me High" (Radio Edit) – 4:07
2. "You're Makin' Me High" (T'empo's Radio Edit) – 4:05
3. "You're Makin' Me High" (Dancehall Mix) – 4:52
4. "You're Makin' Me High" (Groove Remix) – 4:34 - featuring Foxy Brown
5. "You're Makin' Me High" (T'empo's Private Club Mix) - 8:50
6. "You're Makin' Me High" (Morales Classic Mix) – 9:41

UK CD 2

1. "You're Makin' Me High" (Radio Edit) – 4:07
2. "Let It Flow" – 4:22
3. "Breathe Again" – 4:17
4. "Another Sad Love Song" – 4:55

Charts

References

See also

• R&B number-one hits of 1996 (USA)
• Hot 100 number-one hits of 1996 (United States)
• Number-one dance hits of 1996 (USA)