"If You Were with Me Now" is a song by Australianpop singerKylie Minogue and AmericanR&B singerKeith Washington. It was written by Minogue, Washington, and British songwriting teamMike Stock andPete Waterman for Minogue's fourth studio album,Let's Get to It (1991). The song was produced by Stock and Waterman. The song was released as the secondsingle on 21 October 1991 byMushroom Records andPWL Records. It reached number four on theUK Singles Chart, peaked at number seven in Ireland, and entered the top 30 in Australia. The song is Minogue's first hit single to feature her as a co-writer.
Digital Spy's Nick Levine called the track a "slushy duet".[2] Betty Page fromNME wrote, "As for "If You Were Here with Me Now", well, I predict the world will be hearing an awful lot of this, probably around Christmas. It's a duet with 'mystery singer'Keith Washington, who sounds like Son Of Lionel but could be helping Kylie to be the Big American Hit. It's oozingly schmaltzy and is probably a brilliant career move."[3] Writing Minogue's biography for her special on Australian music video programmeRage, they called the song one of the "richly beautiful ballads".[4] In 2023, Robert Moran of Australian daily tabloid newspaperThe Sydney Morning Herald ranked the song as Minogue's 178th best song (out of 183), adding that sounds like "a play for theAladdin soundtrack".[5]
