safe", and deemed the album formulaic. At the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards, where Houston was nominated in the category of Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Single – Female, audible jeers were heard after her name was announced alongside the other nominees. She was accused of being "not black enough". Houston had been discovered by music executive Clive Davis, who had worked with artists such as Barry Manilow and, despite having presented her as an R&B artist early on her career, quickly crossed her over to adult contemporary music; according to author Sherman Andrus Sr., at the time, black artists' music was considered to be "race music" and was not played on "non-black" radio stations. Houston herself later told Ebony magazine: "When I first came out, black people felt 'she belongs to us' [...] then all of a sudden the big success came and they felt I wasn't theirs anymore [...] It was felt that I was making myself more accessible to whites, but I wasn't." Her and Davis agreed that a musical change was needed if she wanted to recapture black audiences. In 1989, Houston became romantically involved with new jack swing singer Bobby Brown, whom she had met at the Soul Train Music Awards; according to author Christine Heppermann, Brown's "unrestrained attitude" inspired the singer. For her third studio album I'm Your Baby Tonight, she decided to work with producers L.A. Reid, and Babyface, who had worked on Brown's breakthrough album Don't Be Cruel; she felt they could give her the "funky, urban groove critics felt she had been lacking". Houston then flew to Atlanta to begin working on the album with the producers, an experience she found to be quite pleasant. The first songs they worked on were "My Name Is Not Susan", "Anymore", and "I'm Your Baby Tonight". The latter was, according to Babyface, "written in pretty much before she came". Reid recalled that, although him and Babyface composed the track with the intention of vocally challenging Houston, she recorded it in less than an hour. Composition and release "I'm Your Baby Tonight" was written and produced by both by L.A. Reid and Babyface. Recording took place at Los Angeles' Elumba Recording studios and New York's Axis Studios; personnel working on the song included Kenneth Richardson on programming and keyboard arrangement, alongside Donald Parks; Rodney Ascue and Jim Zumpano worked as recording engineers, Reid overlooked the percussion instruments