Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

Not to be confused with Nothing's Gonna Stop Us, Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now, or Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now.
For the Chicago song, see Chicago 18 § Track listing.

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
Single by Starship
from the album No Protection
B-side"Layin' It on the Line"
ReleasedJanuary 19, 1987[1]
RecordedSeptember 1986
Genre
Length4:29
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Narada Michael Walden
Starship singles chronology
"Before I Go"
(1986) 		"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
(1987) 		"It's Not Over Til It's Over"
(1987)
Music video
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" on YouTube

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is a song co-written by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond[4] and recorded by American rock band Starship for their second studio album, No Protection (1987). It is a power ballad[5] duet featuring vocalists Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas and is the theme to the romantic-comedy film Mannequin.[6][7]

The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, Warren's first single to do so. Elsewhere, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" topped the charts in Canada, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, where it became the second-best-selling song of 1987. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" received a nomination for Best Original Song at the 60th Academy Awards.

  1. ^ "FMQB" (PDF). p. 42.
  2. ^ Coffey, Russ (September 2, 2017). "theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Albert Hammond". The Arts Desk. Archived from the original on October 19, 2017. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  3. ^ Breihan, Tom (February 10, 2021). "The Number Ones: Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now". Stereogum. Archived from the original on November 15, 2023. Retrieved October 3, 2023. The end result is a fairly generic piece of '80s synth-rock, but it's the good kind of generic.
  4. ^ Nothing's gonna stop us now and the hit songs of Diane Warren MUSIC SCORE.D WARREN – 1991
  5. ^ "The 21 best power ballads". The Telegraph. July 23, 2015. Archived from the original on February 25, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
  6. ^ King, Alex P. (2004). Hit-parade – 20 ans de tubes (in French). Paris: Pascal. p. 340. ISBN 2-35019-009-9.
  7. ^ theguardian, 28 March 2014, Dave Eggers article, Dave Eggers: what's so funny about peace, love and Starship? Archived December 1, 2016, at the Wayback Machine