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"It's a Wrap" is a song recorded by American singer
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for her twelfth studio album ''
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'' (2009). It is a
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-inflected R&B breakup song with minimal instrumentation and features lyrics about dismissing a lover. The track samples " I Belong to You" by
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, whose writer
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is credited on "It's a Wrap" along with Carey. She produced it with Heatmyzer and previous collaborators
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and James "Big Jim" Wright. A remix features additional vocals by American singer
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.
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disagreed on whether to categorize "It's a Wrap" among the best in Carey's discography or classify it as a mediocre effort. Carey performed the song on the television program ''
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'' in 2009. She reprised it throughout the
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in 2010 and received positive reviews that highlighted her vocals and energy. In early 2023, "It's a Wrap" went viral due to a
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dance challenge and was released as a single on February 10 that year as part of a digital
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. It peaked at number 24 on US
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and entered charts in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and South Korea.


Background and release

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released
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's eleventh studio album '' E=MC²'' in April2008. It opened to her largest US first-week sales following appearances on ''
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'' and ''
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''. The lead single, "
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", become Carey's eighteenth numberone on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. She married American entertainer
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shortly after the album's release and decreased its promotion to focus on her personal life. In early2009, Carey began working on follow-up album ''
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'' with "Touch My Body" producer
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and "
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" producer James "Big Jim" Wright. Despite her marriage, Carey envisioned a women's empowerment theme with songs about not needing men in life. One day at their home studio, Carey came in humming a
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while Cannon was toying with
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and samples. His suggestion that they conceptualize "if I came home hella late and you kickin' me out the house" formed the basis for the song "It's a Wrap". It appears as the eighth track on the album between two others of a similar theme, "Standing O" and "
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". Carey is the sole artist on ''Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel'', which Island released on September 28,2009. In early2010, she announced that a follow-up project, '' Angels Advocate'', would feature remixes of tracks from the album as duets. American singer
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, whom Carey had long admired, appears as a featured artist on the remix to "It's a Wrap".
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cancelled ''Angels Advocate'' for unknown reasons and the remix was included as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of Carey's fourteenth studio album '' Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse'' (2014). The song subsequently debuted at number100 on the Gaon South Korea International Digital chart, which ranks the best-performing tracks by international artists based on streaming, downloads and background music sales.


2023 resurgence

In early2023, a sped-up edition of "It's a Wrap" became popular on social media with a viral dance challenge. Carey posted a
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to the version and encouraged her fans to follow. The clip received 10million views and its audio was used for 650,000 others. After the song's US streams increased 1,000 percent in one month,
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issued a four-track digital extended play containing the album version, remix, sped-up version and a shortened edit on February 10,2023. Carey continued promoting the song with additional TikTok dance videos featuring her children and
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, which collectively received over 35million views. A 12-inch vinyl of the EP was released on December 1,2023. Along with
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's " Die for You" and
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", "It's a Wrap" was one of several songs to appear on music charts in early2023 due to viral sped-up versions. After receiving 2,500downloads, it debuted at number22 on the US
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chart dated February 25,2023. "It's a Wrap" entered at number24 on
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the following week, aided by 3.6 million streams as calculated by Luminate. On March 6,2023, the sped-up version reached number36 on the New Zealand Hot Singles chart, which measures "the 40 fastest-moving tracks by sales, streams and airplay".


Composition and lyrics

Musically, "It's a Wrap" is an R&B song with
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inflections. It contains elements from " I Belong to You"(1974) by the female vocal trio
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and samples the performance by
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. The composer and lyricist,
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, is credited as a writer on "It's a Wrap" along with Carey. She produced the song with Heatmyzer, Stewart and Wright. They integrate instrumentation sparsely in the arrangement. Stewart, Wright, Leon Bisquera and Monte Neuble play the keyboards and
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, Alex Al performs the bass guitar and Ronnie Gutierrez provides percussion. Brian Garten and Brian "B-Luv" Thomas recorded "It's a Wrap" at Honeywest Studies in New York City and The Boom Boom Room in
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. Jaycen-Joshua Fowler and Dave Pensado mixed it at Larrabee Studios in
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, after which Brian Gardner conducted mastering at the Los Angeles-based
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. Luis Navarro aided during the recording process and Giancarlo Lina assisted in the mixing. The album version of "It's a Wrap" lasts three minutes and fifty-nine seconds and an edited version is approximately one minute shorter. "It's a Wrap" is a breakup song that incorporates two verses, a pre-chorus, chorus and
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. Its lyrics involve a
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Carey decisively dismissing a lover from her life. After beginning the song with a wail, she sings with an open voice in a high-pitched tone. Carey describes both her inner thoughts ("I was oh, so acquiescent – but I learned my lesson") and outward feelings ("I should crack you right in your forehead"). She threatens to call
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and declares of the relationship: "When it's gone, it's gone". The song received critical analysis. ''
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'' critic
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and Mesfin Fekadu of the
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described Carey's vocals as containing grit and attitude, respectively. Writing in '' Between the Lines'', Chris Azzopardi dubbed "It's a Wrap" a "fierce-girl anthem" and ''
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''s Sarah Rodman labeled it a "saucy kiss-off".
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of ''
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'' and Michael Cragg of ''
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'' remarked the song recalls a
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aura. '' The Gazette''s T'Cha Dunlevy felt the recording had a sense of swing and ''
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''s
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described it as retro. In the remix, Blige adds an introduction coercing Carey to leave the relationship: "Why don't you just cut this guy loose? Tell him it's a wrap cos you're better than that. And you Mariah Carey. Remember?"
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writer Cameron Adams considered it a "2014 celebrity update" of Charlene's " I've Never Been to Me" (1977) and thought the new lyrics resembled dialogue from Carey's 2001 film ''
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''. In an article for
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, Dominique Zonyeé felt the remix evokes "a women's-only club vibe".


Critical reception

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judged "It's a Wrap" against other songs in Carey's catalog. Mesfin Fekadu of the Associated Press considered it a classic comparable to "
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", "
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" and "
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". In contrast, Cragg felt it lacked the nonchalant nature of "
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" or "
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". Adams derided the lyrics as some of the worst in Carey's career. Writing for ''Billboard'' in 2017, Everett Brothers deemed it "the most refreshingly creative song hehas written and performed in recent memory". The magazine placed the remix at number22 in their 2020 list of Carey's 100 best songs. The song's composition and Carey's vocal performance were topics of commentary. For '' Time Out''s Kim Taylor Bennett, "It's a Wrap" sounds "slick and sophisticated but bland". Dunlevy perceived the production passé and Hope praised it as nostalgic. Kot thought the production augmented Carey's vocal delivery. According to Fekadu, the latter "is so sensuous and sweet, even the song's intended target will remain under her spell". The remix received reviews regarding the dynamic between Blige and Carey. Devone Jones of ''
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'' said it is successful because, rather than outsing each other, the pair have complementary charm. Zonyeé reckoned the duet superior to the original. ''Billboard''s Rania Aniftos considered the remix commanding; Brothers believed the delayed release stymied its effectiveness.


Live performances

Carey performed "It's a Wrap" on television and tour. On December 17,2009, she sang it during an episode of the US late-night talk show ''
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''. Carey reprised the track for the 2009–2010
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in a choreographed routine with a male backup dancer acting as the man she dismisses. Her performances garnered positive feedback from American newspaper critics, who considered it a successful vocal showcase. Azzopardi felt "It's a Wrap" sounded better on stage and ''
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''s Chris Richards thought the live version gained a verve comparable to "Honey" and " Heartbreaker". Rodman remarked Carey "dug giddily" into the performance and ''
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''s Scott Cronick described it as a highlight. In 2023, Carey sang "It's a Wrap" during a headline performance at
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and at the
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tour.


Track listing

2023 EP # "It's a Wrap" – 3:59 # "It's a Wrap (Sped Up)" – 2:44 # "It's a Wrap" (featuring
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) – 4:04 # "It's a Wrap (Edit)" – 3:01


Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of ''Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel'' unless otherwise noted. Recording *Recorded at The Boom Boom Room (Burbank, California) and Honeywest Studios (New York City) *Mixed at Larrabee Studios (Universal City, California) *Mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Los Angeles) Personnel *Songwriting – Mariah Carey and Barry White *Production – Carey, Heatmyzer, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart and James "Big Jim" Wright *Recording – Brian Garten and Brian "B-Luv" Thomas *Recording assistant – Luis Navarro *Keys and Hammond B3 – Wright, Stewart, Leon Bisquera and Monte Neuble *Bass guitar – Alex Al *Percussion – Ronnie Gutierrez *Mixing – Jaycen-Joshua Fowler and Dave Pensado *Mixing (Sped Up, Edit versions) – Fowler, Pensado and Garten *Mixing assistant – Giancarlo Lino *Mastering – Brian Gardner


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References

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