What If I Do

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"What If I Do"
McCready - What If I Do single.jpg
Single by Mindy McCready
from the album If I Don't Stay the Night
B-side "If I Don't Stay the Night"
ReleasedSeptember 15, 1997 (1997-09-15) [1]
Recorded1997
Genre
Length3:13 (album version)
3:08 (radio remix)
Label BNA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) David Malloy
Mindy McCready singles chronology
"A Girl's Gotta Do (What a Girl's Gotta Do)"
(1997)
"What If I Do"
(1997)
"You'll Never Know"
(1998)

"What If I Do" is a song by American country music artist Mindy McCready, taken from her second studio album If I Don't Stay the Night (1997). Written by David Malloy, Ed Hill and Mark D. Sanders, and produced by Malloy, it was released on September 15, 1997, as the lead single from the album.

Contents

Content

The song is in the key of D major with a moderate tempo and a vocal range of A3-D5. [2] In it, the female narrator questions whether or not to pursue a further relationship with her date. [3]

Critical reception

Dan Milliken of the blog Country Universe wrote that "McCready gives a fantastically entertaining performance, speak-singing her lines with a bold campiness that most other gals wouldn’t dare." [3]

Charts

"What If I Do" peaked at number 26 on the US Hot Country Songs chart. [4]

Chart (1997)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [5] 19
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [6] 2
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 26

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