"If You Don't Mean It" is a pop

Pop music

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 song written by Chris Braide

Chris Braide

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, Carl Falk and Didrik Thott, recorded by Dean Geyer

Dean Geyer

Dean Stanley Geyer is an Australian Singer-Songwriter and Actor who came third in the 2006 season of the talent show television series, Australian Idol.-Early life:...

 for his first album Rush

Rush (Dean Geyer album)

Rush is the first album by Australian singer Dean Geyer, released by Sony BMG in Australia on 28 May 2007 . The album "sums up everything that" Geyer has felt in the past year, he states "the process of creating, writing, recording and promoting has been a rush...

(2007). Geyer states the song is about a girl who "says she loves him but doesn't show it by her actions. He gets desperate wondering if there's someone else." It was released as the album's first single in Australia

Australia

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 on 7 May 2007, as a CD single

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 and digital download

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. The single was released to Australian radio on 4 April 2007 and became the most added song to radio for that week.

The song has been covered in two different continents, both by Idol alumni as well. The first to cover it was Jon Peter Lewis

Jon Peter Lewis

Jon Peter Lewis is an American singer and songwriter, and was one of the finalists on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol...

, of American Idol

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, on his sophomore CD called Break the Silence. The second to cover it was Markus Fagervall

Markus Fagervall

Markus Fagervall won Idol 2006, the third season of the Swedish version of Pop Idol. Markus beat out Erik Segerstedt on December 1, 2006 to take the title. His first single "Everything Changes" peaked at number one on the Swedish singles chart...

, of Idol (Sweden)

Idol 2006

The third season of Idol premiered in Sweden on August 29, 2005 and continued until its grand finale on December 1, when 24-year-old Markus Fagervall from Övertorneå was crowned winner...

, also on his sophomore CD, called Steal My Melody. Markus went on to release the song as his sophomore CD's lead single.

Track listing

1. "If You Don't Mean It" - 3:14
2. "Crazy" - 2:46
3. "We Share the Same Space" - 3:33