Can't Change Me

1999 single by Chris Cornell
the Vince Neil song "Can't Change Me"

"Can't Change Me" is the first single released from Chris Cornell's debut solo album, Euphoria Morning (1999). The song peaked at No. 5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks, and at No. 7 on the Alternative Songs chart. A music video was produced for the song. "Can't Change Me" was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 2000 Grammy Awards.

Chris Cornell told MTV News that students of Soundgarden's music can find the genesis of "Can't Change Me" in some of the band's hits, such as "Blow Up the Outside World" and "Fell on Black Days".</blockquote>

"Can't Change Me" was released in early 1999 and turned out to be the biggest hit from the album commercially and the song had strong chart positions. "Can't Change Me" was the first Cornell single to chart but in late 1998 "Sunshower" charted in the US on the Modern and Mainstream chart. "Can't Change Me's" peak on the Mainstream rock Tracks was No. 5 and on the Modern Rock Tracks its peak was No. 7. The song also charted in the UK where its peak was No. 62 and became a minor hit outside the US. Greg Tate of Rolling Stone said this about the song "Can't Change Me," is as rhapsodically gorgeous as pop gets, putting a spin on true love that any reprobate slacker can relate to: "She's going to change the world/But she can't change me/Suddenly I can see everything that's wrong with me/But what can I do?/I'm the only thing I really have at all." Cornell unveils a desire to be reckoned with as an openly wounded and unabashedly portentous rock balladeer."