It'll Be Okay

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"It'll Be Okay"
Shawn Mendes - It'll Be Okay.png
Single by Shawn Mendes
ReleasedDecember 1, 2021 (2021-12-01)
Length3:43
Label Island
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Shawn Mendes
  • Mike Sabath
Shawn Mendes singles chronology
"Summer of Love"
(2021)		"It'll Be Okay"
(2021)		"When You're Gone"
(2022)
Music video
"It'll Be Okay" on YouTube

"It'll Be Okay" is a song by Canadian singer Shawn Mendes. It was released through Island Records as a single on December 1, 2021. The song was written by Mendes, Scott Harris, Mike Sabath, and Eddie Benjamin. It was produced by Mendes and Sabath and additionally produced by Benjamin and Johan Lenox. Mendes first announced "It'll Be Okay" alongside the single's cover art and a snippet on November 30, 2021, setting its release date for the following day at 7:00 P.M. EST. A lyric video was released alongside the song. [1]

Contents

Composition and lyrics

"It'll Be Okay" is a piano-heavy ballad that is set in the key of G major and has a tempo of 76–80 beats per minute. [2] The song lyrically sees Mendes discuss a breakup. He starts off the song "over swelling, organ-like synths", singing: "Are we gonna make it? / Is this gonna hurt? / Oh, we can try to sedate it / But that never works, yeah". [3] In the pre-chorus, Mendes expresses that he cannot live without his significant other after the split, which therefore has him assuring himself that it will all be alright soon: "I start to imagine a world where we don't collide / It's making me sick, but we'll heal and the sun will rise". [4] In the chorus, he emotionally vents about his feelings from the breakup: "If you tell me you're leaving, I'll make it easy / It'll be okay / If we can't stop the bleeding, we don't have to fix it / We don't have to stay / I will love you either way (Ooh-ooh) / It'll be o–, be okay (Ooh-ooh)". [5] Further on, in the second verse, he sings about what went to waste after the relationship ended: "Oh, the future we dreamed of / Is fading to black, oh / And, oh, there's nothing more painful". [6]

Music video

The music video depicts Mendes walking through the streets of Toronto at night as snow falls around him.

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. [7]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "It'll Be Okay"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [38] Platinum70,000‡
Austria (IFPI Austria) [39] Gold15,000‡
Belgium (BEA) [40] Gold20,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [41] Gold45,000‡
France (SNEP) [42] Gold100,000‡
Poland (ZPAV) [43] Gold25,000‡
Portugal (AFP) [44] Gold5,000‡
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [45] Platinum20,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [46] Silver200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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