Songfacts®:

• Chris Brown wrote this heartbreaking tune with Eric Bellinger (Ne-Yo, Justin Bieber) and, Amber Streeter ( Kelly Rowland, Alicia Keys). It was produced by RoccStar, Darell Harts, and G'harah "PK" Degeddingseze. Bellinger told Billboard magazine how it was inspired by the King of Pop: "We were in the studio every day for about two months," he recalled. "RoccStar and PK played the beat and I immediately thought about Michael Jackson. So they said, 'Go in the booth and do some Michael-type stuff.' I was just coming off the top of my head and was able to come up with something. Michael could do no wrong, so that was what my parents allowed me to listen to while I was growing up; and then Chris put his spin on it and kept it real and relevant."
• The song lead Brown's sixth album, X. "For the first single, I wanted to go more nostalgic, bring Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Sam Cooke to it, but also bring a new sound to what my audience and fans are listening to," he told MTV News.
  "For this album, I wanted to have the same mentality as I did with the first album," he added, "me being green, me not thinking I know what's hot and what's next, me just being Chris Brown. I think this will show my vocal ability a lot more. I've developed a falsetto, I can sing at a higher register, and I can elaborate more on my skill."
• Brown co-directed the video with Sylvan White, who was behind the lens for the 2007 movie, Stomp the Yard. He explained to Billboard magazine: "I wanted to go with a film director to set the mood and bring that artistic side to it. I'm not one who always loves to stand in front of the camera with flashy cars and big booty girls all the time. It's cool and I do features on raps (laughs). But I like to showcase a different side. I tweeted the other day that chivalry ain't dead. What that meant was, in this video, you'll see me taking care of the girl, doing gentlemanly things - showing another side of me. I know my female audience sees it. But the naysayers might say, 'No, that's not him.'"