If It's Over
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If It's Over is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey for her second album, Emotions. It was co-written by Carole King and co-produced by Walter Afanasieff, after Carey refused to cover King's "(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman", saying she preferred writing her own material and felt incapable of matching Aretha Franklin's cover. Several months after the release of Emotions, Carey performed the song during her appearance on the television show MTV Unplugged, as the second number on her setlist. Following the release of the EP MTV Unplugged, "If It's Over" was released as the album's second and final single in the third quarter of 1992 (see 1992 in music). The protagonist of this big band-styled track gets a case of the blues, and tells her lover that she loves him but that he should stop playing mind games, and "if it's over" he should let her go.
All of Carey's previous singles had become hits in the United States, with six of them reaching number one. Executives at Sony believed that the elements of big band, jazz and soul in "If It's Over" would conflict with Carey's "pop star" image and jeopardize her chart record, and decided not release the song as a single in the U.S. The single was released in a limited number of countries such as Japan and the Netherlands, and failed in most markets.
The single's video, directed by Larry Jordan, is compiled of footage from Carey's performance of the song on MTV Unplugged.
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