It's Not Right but It's Okay
| "It's Not Right but It's Okay" | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||||||||
| Single by Whitney Houston | ||||||||||
| from the album My Love Is Your Love | ||||||||||
| Released | January 25, 1999 | |||||||||
| Format | ||||||||||
| Recorded | October 1998 | |||||||||
| Genre | Neo-R&B | |||||||||
| Length |
|
|||||||||
| Label | Arista | |||||||||
| Writer(s) |
|
|||||||||
| Producer(s) | Darkchild | |||||||||
| Whitney Houston singles chronology | ||||||||||
|
||||||||||
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" is a song by American singer Whitney Houston, from her fourth studio album, My Love Is Your Love. It was written by LaShawn Daniels, Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins III, Isaac Phillips, Toni Estes, and produced by Darkchild. The song examines a woman confronting her lover about his infidelity.
The music video was directed by Kevin Bray. Houston won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for this song.
The original Rodney Jerkins production was released, but mainstream radio airplay and sales were given for the Thunderpuss Remix. The remixed version was released on Houston's 2000 Whitney: The Greatest Hits collection, and the original album version appears on 2007's The Ultimate Collection.
The Johnny Vicious remixes were included on the domestic CD maxi-single of "Heartbreak Hotel" as well as the on the import single and are currently available as iTunes downloads. The KCC remix was included on the US version of the "My Love Is Your Love" maxi-single and is also available as an iTunes download. Rodney Jerkins' remixes are the closest to the album version; Club 69 (Peter Rauhofer) also remixed the track for play in the UK. In the US, when it was released as a stand-alone single, the versions that appear are the Rodney Jerkins, Thunderpuss and Club 69 remixes. There is also a ballad version, entitled "Smooth Mix".
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" is a neo-R&B song. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, it is written in the key of C minor with a tempo of 130 beats per minute. Houston's vocals span from G3 to A♭5 in the song.
...
Wikipedia