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If You Were with Me Now
1991 single by Kylie Minogue and Keith Washington From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"If You Were with Me Now" is a song by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue and American R&B singer Keith Washington. It was written by Minogue, Washington, and British songwriting team Mike Stock and Pete Waterman for Minogue's fourth studio album, Let's Get to It (1991). The song was produced by Stock and Waterman. The song was released as the second single on 21 October 1991 by Mushroom Records and PWL Records. It reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, as well as the top 10 in Ireland and the top 30 in Australia. The song is Minogue's first hit single to feature her as a co-writer.
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Critical reception
Digital Spy's Nick Levine called the track a "slushy duet".[3] Betty Page from NME wrote, "As for "If You Were Here with Me Now", well, I predict the world will be hearing an awful lot of this, probably around Christmas. It's a duet with 'mystery singer' Keith Washington, who sounds like Son Of Lionel but could be helping Kylie to be the Big American Hit. It's oozingly schmaltzy and is probably a brilliant career move."[4] Writing Minogue's biography for her special on Australian music video programme Rage, they called the song one of the "richly beautiful ballads".[5] In 2023, Robert Moran of Australian daily tabloid newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald ranked the song as Minogue's 178th best song (out of 183), adding that sounds like "a play for the Aladdin soundtrack".[6]
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Track listings
- "If You Were with Me Now" – 3:10
- "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 5:59
- "If You Were with Me Now" (extended version) – 5:06
- "If You Were with Me Now" – 3:10
- "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 3:30
- UK 12-inch single[11]
- "If You Were with Me Now" – 5:06
- "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 5:59
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