Released 1990 Recorded 1990 Length 3:50 | Format CD single, 12", 7" Genre Pop/R&B | |
Label Next Plateau, PWL Records | ||
"Make It Easy on Me" is a song by the American R&B singer Sybil, written and produced by the British team Stock Aitken & Waterman. It was the third single released from her third album, Sybilization, in fall 1990.
While Sybil had landed a deal in the UK with Pete Waterman's PWL Records for her previous album, Sybil, the song was her first direct involvement with the producers Stock Aitken & Waterman, although some of her previous singles had been remixed by the production team and their associates on PWL Records. Sybil later worked with Mike Stock and Pete Waterman on her 1993 album Good 'N' Ready, on which a remixed version of the song is included.
"Make It Easy On Me", a mid-tempo R&B jam, received good reviews (especially for signalling a different, more soulful and mature sound atypical of the producers' Europop fare), but failed to make an impact on the charts, barely making the UK top 100 peaking at #99, and peaking at #52 on the Billboard R&B charts.
Cover versions
The pop group Steps covered the song on their 1999 album Steptacular. It was sung as a solo by Lisa Scott-Lee.