 " Cruise Control " , featuring reggae artist Damian Marley , is influenced by R & B and Reggae , and finds her adapting to the genre by imitating Jamaican phrases , accents and styles of singing . " I Stay in Love " was released as the fourth and final single from the album , and places fourth on its track @-@ listing . Written by Carey and Bryan @-@ Michael Cox , is a mid @-@ tempo " beat @-@ driven " and " piano @-@ laced " ballad , that is influenced by pop and R & B music genres . The song 's instrumentation is derived from a piano melody , and is backed by a strong computerized drum @-@ beat . Its lyrics find Carey as her most vulnerable ; she describes old times she shared with her lover , and that even though " we said let go " , and " inside she knows its over " , she still " stays in love with him " . Featuring American rapper Young Jeezy , " Side Effects " describes Carey 's abusive relationship with Tommy Mottola , her ex @-@ husband . During the first verse , she discusses the pair 's background , and how she was young and naive , and believed everything he preached to her . The lyrics read " Keepin ' me there , under your thumb / Cause you were scared that I 'd become much / More than you could handle , " she confesses , and refers to herself as " Shining like a chandelier / That decorated every room inside / The private hell we built / And I dealt with it / Like a kid I wished / I could fly away . " According to Freedom De Luc of The Washington Post , on the song Carey uploads on Mottola , " ' sleeping with the enemy , aware that he was smothering every last part of me . ' She finally walked away , she sings , ' but I still live with the side effects . ' Sarah Rodman from The Boston Globe described it as " another look at her fractious marriage to Mottola " , and wrote " Although the union ended in 1998 , Carey is still suffering , including dreams of the ' violent times ' and ' sleeping with the enemy ' . Interestingly , her vocal approach here is almost emo , as she hits her rock @-@ solid middle register and refuses to be held captive by the demons of her past . " MTV News writer Jennifer Vineyard described the song in detail : 
