Over It (Katharine McPhee song)

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“Over It”

Single by Katharine McPhee from the album Katharine McPhee
Released	January 30, 2007 (Worldwide)
Format	CD single Digital download
Recorded	2007
Genre	Pop, R&B
Length	3:35
Label	RCA Records
Writer(s)	Josh Alexander Billy Steinberg Ruth-Anne Cunningham
Producer	Billy Steinberg Josh Alexander
Certification	Gold
Katharine McPhee International singles chronology
	"Over It" (2007)
Katharine McPhee U.S. singles chronology
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow/My Destiny" (2006)	"Over It" (2007)	"Love Story" (2007)

Over It was the first single to be released from the eponymous album by Katharine McPhee, the American Idol season five (2006) finalist .^[1] The song was reportedly described by McPhee as "the only real pop song on the record" and as being "a very sultry song about young love".^[2] The song was produced by Billy Steinberg and Josh Alexander, and written by Alexander, Steinberg and Ruth-Anne Cunningham, the writers of JoJo's "Too Little Too Late". The song is available for listening via online music services such as AOL and MySpace, courtesy of RCA Records. McPhee has since stated that this was not "[her] favorite song" and she did not want her "song to be something that [she] was a part of."^[3]

In the song, McPhee sings over a sultry beat driven by acoustic guitars about letting go of the person one loves because one does not share the same feeling. The narrator complains about how their lover cheats on them, and is betraying their trust.

"Over It" debuted at #44 on Billboard's Pop 100 Airplay chart and peaked at #27.

Billboard Magazine has listed "Over It" on their HitPredictor list for the Pop 100 Airplay list.

"Over It" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 48 on the chart for the week ending February 17, 2007.^[4] It has since peaked at number 29. The song is somewhat tongue-in-cheek in that McPhee describes several qualities about her ex-boyfriend, while at the same time she seems to fixate on them, showing she is not fully over him.

1 Music video
- 1.1 Alternate ending
2 Chart performance
3 Notes
4 References

[edit] Music video

The video premiered on TRL on February 23, 2007. It hit #8 the next day and peaked at #1 for 2 days. It was #1 on MTV Asia for 11 weeks.

The video starts with McPhee in front of a camera singing to her ex-boyfriend. Then McPhee is shown getting ready to go out with her friends to a house party. The video then shows scenes of Katharine singing in a car with her friends. When she gets into the house party, she finds her ex-boyfriend in the middle of the dancefloor. She tries to reach him to give him the DVD that she recorded in front of the camera but he walks away without noticing her. This is followed by several scenes of Katharine singing in front of the camera. Finally she reaches her ex-boyfriend in a very romantic way while feigning to want to kiss him, but she only gives him the DVD that she recorded and walks away. On March 23, 2007 the music video was released on 5,000 movie screens. The video also debuted and peaked at #1 on VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown. "Over It" stayed at #1 again for another week, and #1 again for its third consecutive week.

[edit] Alternate ending

The video is the same in the beginning, but has an alternate ending. In this version, when she reaches her ex-boyfriend she feigns to want to kiss him and removes the DVD from her pocket and makes to hand it to him, but at the last second she puts it back in her pocket and they are seen walking away smiling and holding hands. Thus, she is ultimately not over her ex-boyfriend, but she is over her boyfriend's cheating and stealing and is ready to start over fresh with him. She's over it in that she's forgiving and forgetting about his past wrongdoing.

[edit] Chart performance

Chart	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	29
U.S. Pop 100	21
U.S. Pop 100 Airplay	27
Canadian Hot 100	25
Indonesian Music Chart^[5]	1
Top 40 Tracks	32
Top 40 Mainstream	22
Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks	36
GIB Singles Chart	1

On MTV Asia's Pop Inc Chart, which is compiling Top 20 most requested and most voted video of the week on MTVAsia, "Over It" debuted #1 and stayed there for 11 consecutive-weeks. This is the first video that having a debut #1 ever in this chart show's history. This is the second video ever on this chart's history that topped the chart for over 10 weeks, the first one was Pussycat Dolls' Buttons with 14 weeks.

The song has sold 530,000+ downloads and has gone Gold in 2008.^[6]

[edit] Notes

"Over It" was featured in an episode of Lonelygirl15, with McPhee herself guest-starring. It was also featured on a recent episode of The Hills.

Preceded by "Listen" by Beyonce	GIB Singles Chart number one single (first run) February 25, 2007 - March 4, 2007	Succeeded by "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" by by Jennifer Hudson
Preceded by "Tell Me 'Bout It" by Joss Stone	GIB Singles Chart number one single (Second run) April 1, 2007 - April 15, 2007	Succeeded by "Sin Medida" by Lorena