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{{about|the album|the album's title track|If I Ever Fall in Love}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = ...If I Ever Fall in Love
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| next_title = [[Right Back at Cha]]
| next_year = 1993
| misc = {{Singles
| name = ...If I Ever Fall in Love
| type = studio
| single1 = [[If I Ever Fall in Love]]
| single1date = September 1, 1992
| single2 = [[Comforter (song)|Comforter]]
| single2date = January 19, 1993
| single3 = Baby I'm Yours
| single3date = 1993
| single4 = Together Forever
| single4date = 1993
| single5 = Yours
| single5date = 1993
}}
{{Album ratings▼
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]▼
| rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="Erlewine"/>▼
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]▼
| rev2score = B−<ref name="Christgau"/>▼
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''▼
| rev3score = B−<ref name="Browne"/>▼
| rev4 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''▼
| rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Muze"/>▼
}}
'''''...If I Ever Fall in Love''''' is the [[studio album|debut album]] of American [[contemporary R&B|R&B]] group [[Shai (band)|Shai]], released December 22, 1992, on [[MCA Records]]. It was produced by group members Carl "Groove" Martin and Darnell Van Rensalier.
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== Reception ==
''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the album three-and-a-half out of five stars and complimented its "crisp, precise harmonies that imply explosive vocal power but display few pyrotechnics", adding that "Shai joins the spiritual yearnings of [[Take Six]] with the secular pull of [[Boyz II Men]]".<ref name="Muze">[http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1103600/a/...If+I+Ever+Fall+In+Love.htm Shai - ...If I Ever Fall In Love CD Album]. [[Muze]]. [[CD Universe]]. Retrieved on 2011-07-15.</ref> [[David Browne (journalist)|David Browne]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' found its [[hip hop music|hip hop]] and [[new jack swing]]-oriented songs "fussy [and] unconvincing", but praised the group's [[crooning]] and stated, "They wrap their voices like a thick shag carpet around the choruses of the album's languorous, starry-eyed ballads".<ref name="Browne">[[David Browne (journalist)|Browne, David]] (January 29, 1993). [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,305397,00.html ...If I Ever Fall in Love Review | Music Reviews and News]. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''. Retrieved on 2011-07-15.</ref>▼
▲| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
▲| rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="Erlewine"/>
▲| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
▲| rev2score = B−<ref name="Christgau"/>
▲| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
▲| rev3score = B−<ref name="Browne"/>
| rev4 = ''[[Music Week]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Alan|last=Jones|title=Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums — Pick of the Week|work=[[Music Week]]|date=January 30, 1993|page=11|accessdate=January 29, 2023|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1993/Music-Week-1993-01-30.pdf}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref>Wood, Sam (February 9, 1993). "808 State Defies the Odds Again with a Consistently Fine Album". ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''.</ref>
}}
▲''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the album three-and-a-half out of five stars and complimented its "crisp, precise harmonies that imply explosive vocal power but display few pyrotechnics", adding that "Shai joins the spiritual yearnings of [[Take 6|Take Six]] with the secular pull of [[Boyz II Men]]".<ref name="Muze">[http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1103600/a/...If+I+Ever+Fall+In+Love.htm Shai - ...If I Ever Fall In Love CD Album]. [[Muze]]. [[CD Universe]]. Retrieved on 2011-07-15.</ref> [[David Browne (journalist)|David Browne]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' found its [[hip hop music|hip hop]] and [[new jack swing]]-oriented songs "fussy [and] unconvincing", but praised the group's [[crooning]] and stated, "They wrap their voices like a thick shag carpet around the choruses of the album's languorous, starry-eyed ballads".<ref name="Browne">[[David Browne (journalist)|Browne, David]] (January 29, 1993). [https://web.archive.org/web/20090421073021/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,305397,00.html ...If I Ever Fall in Love Review | Music Reviews and News]. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''. Retrieved on 2011-07-15.</ref>
However, in his consumer guide for ''[[The Village Voice]]'', critic [[Robert Christgau]] gave the album a B− rating and named it "dud of the month",<ref name="Christgau">[[Robert Christgau|Christgau, Robert]] (April 6, 1993). [http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv393-93.php Consumer Guide Apr. 6, 1993]. ''[[The Village Voice]]''. [[Village Voice Media]]. Retrieved on 2011-07-15.</ref> indicating "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought".<ref>Christgau, Robert (October 15, 2000). [http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php CG 90s: Key to Icons]. Robert Christgau. Retrieved on 2011-07-15.</ref> Christgau found the group's singing "indifferent" and panned them as having "no class and no sense of humor; they're too smarmy and too slow", adding that "They epitomize the difference between seduction and betrayal--between shared lie and imposed illusion, rascal and bounder, rogue and complete asshole. There's not a winning wink on the entire album".<ref name="Christgau"/> In a retrospective review, [[
== Track listing ==
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| title9 = Waiting for the Day
| writer9 = {{hlist|Martin|[[Gina Go-Go|Gina "Go-Go" Gomez]]|Van Rensalier}}
| extra9 = Martin
| length9 = 4:45
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* Steve Hall – mastering
* Kevin Levi – saxophone
* Carl "Groove" Martin –
* Ken Schubert – engineer
* Darnell VanRensalier – drum programming, keyboards, producer
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