No One Is Alone (song) song has an aural resemblance to The Candy Man. The song has the form of AABA. The song is frequently compared with You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel, which "You've Got to Have a Dream: The Message of the Musical" rejects"." In analysing how the second act relies on a sense of accumulated community wisdom, "Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays" draws ties between this song and an earlier number called It Takes Two, which was originally included as a reprise in the Act II finale in the pre-Broadway tryouts. Bustle ranked the song at #2 in a
The Payback (song) hits, "Hold On" and "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)", that were both based on loops from the song's rhythm track. LL Cool J sampled "The Payback" in his 1990 song "The Booming System". Guy used the enthusiastic whoops for Dog Me Outin 1991. Mary J. Blige sampled the song for her 1997 hit "Everything". The group Total (featuring Notorious BIG) sampled the song in their 1995 hit "Can't You See". Keith Sweat's group Silk, in the song "Happy Days" sampled "The Payback" from their 1992 debut album, "Lose Control", which was produced by Sweat and featured on the