 " There Goes My Baby " is a , " slinky " down @-@ tempo R & B ballad , with infused hints of neo soul . It is composed in a " moderate groove " of eighty beats per minute , and is set in common time . It is written the key of A minor and Usher 's vocals span from the low note of E4 to high note of C6 . It follows the chord progression A – Fmaj7 – G. The song makes use of Usher 's falsetto range , which was warmly received by critics . Edna Gunderson of USA Today called Usher 's falsetto " charming . " Jaime Gill of Yahoo ! Music UK said that the song was a delight and that its falsetto tenderness was absent in the rest of the work . Tyler Lewis of PopMatters said the song featured " nice falsetto work " from the singer , while Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly coined the song a " falsetto @-@ laced plea . " 
