I Don't

Mariah collaborated with rapper YG on the song “I Don't,” which was released on February 3, 2017, after premiering on the docu-series Mariah's World. The song, which interpolates Donell Jones' 1999 hit “Where I Wanna Be,” peaked at number eighty-nine on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. “Jermaine Dupri had the track with the Donell Jones riff on it for a while and we were writing some other songs,” Mariah told Billboard in 2017. “We actually were in Italy working on different tracks, just kind of playing around in the studio and then he was just like, ‘I have this track that I really want you to hear,’ and I was just blowing it off because I was more into doing something brand-new. And then we got back to, I think we were in L.A., and Crystal Nicole was there, who I worked with for ‘Touch My Body’ and we started listening to the beat. We heard it and loved it and sat down and wrote a verse and the melodies together.”

Remixes

An official remix featuring a verse by rapper Remy Ma was released on March 24, 2017.

Music Video

The music video for “I Don't,” directed by Mariah, was filmed in Calabasas, California. “It was a day later after we did the song,” Mariah said. “We had to put it together really quickly. There wasn't really one storyline, it was just the breaking up of a, whatever you want to call it, relationship… and it kind of fit with the lyrics. I've always wanted to burn a wedding dress in a video. So we took this opportunity to do that 'cause in the ‘We Belong Together’ video, I told Brett Ratner in post-production, I wanted to burn the train of the wedding dress, which was actually the real wedding dress that I wore in one of my many endeavors into marriage. He wouldn't light the train up so I was like, ‘You know what? I'm gonna do this myself.’ ”

Lyrics

Album Version

YG:
I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You don't understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey
I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You need to understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey

Mariah:
Somewhere in another life
We stole a moment in time
Gave you everything that you needed
I was even down to repeat
Said you would always be mine
Feeding me nothing but lies
I was so gone, I admit it
Had me messed up for a minute

But I'm tired of crying
No more tears
Pity party of the year
Cold at night cause you're not here
Leaving you was my worst fear
I was caught up, I was blind
You kept playing with my mind
Told you I'm finished
Gassed up the whip and
Rear view, bye

Cause when you love someone
You just don't treat them bad
You messed up all we had
Probably think I'm coming back
But I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
See I used to love you
But I don't, I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
But you don't mean a thing
Cause I don't, I don't

I tried to make it work
No matter how much it hurt
You had to make it all about you
Tell me why you go and do me like you do?
I went from me and you
To walking right out on you
I know you want love, in your feelings
Fronting on me like your love was the realest

And I'm tired of crying
No more tears
Pity party of the year
Cold at night cause you're not here
Leaving you was my worst fear
I was caught up, I was blind
You kept playing with my mind
Told you I'm finished
Gassed up the whip and
Rear view, bye

Cause when you love someone
You just don't treat them bad
You messed up all we had
Probably think I'm coming back
But I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
See I used to love you
But I don't, I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
But you don't mean a thing
Cause I don't, I don't

YG:
I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You don't understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey
I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You need to understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey

Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up
Hold up, I just got you ring, for what?
I put you in the game, now it's game over
Every time you went to the Louis store you got chauffeured
Hold up, how you gon' leave that?
Hold up, give me my ring back
Never mind, you can keep that
'Cause every time you look at your ring, me, you gon' dream that

I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You don't understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey
I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You need to understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey

Mariah:
Cause when you love someone
You just don't treat them bad
You messed up all we had
Probably think I'm coming back
But I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
See I used to love you
But I don't, I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
But you don't mean a thing
Cause I don't, I don't


Written by Mariah Carey, Keenon Jackson, Donell Jones, Kyle West.
Produced by Jermaine Dupri and Bryan-Michael Cox.

Remix

YG:
I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You don't understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey
I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You need to understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey

Mariah:
Somewhere in another life
We stole a moment in time
Gave you everything that you needed
I was even down to repeat
Said you would always be mine
Feeding me nothing but lies
I was so gone, I admit it
Had me messed up for a minute

But I'm tired of crying
No more tears
Pity party of the year
Cold at night cause you're not here
Leaving you was my worst fear
I was caught up, I was blind
You kept playing with my mind
Told you I'm finished
Gassed up the whip and
Rear view, bye

Cause when you love someone
You just don't treat them bad
You messed up all we had
Probably think I'm coming back
But I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
See I used to love you
But I don't, I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
But you don't mean a thing
Cause I don't, I don't

Remy Ma:
You go hard for them
You don't ever ever want to be apart from them
It's like y'all one and you become a part of them
You hold them soft and still go hard for them
But instead of looking at how far we've come
I'm regretting it, damn, are you dumb?
Wanted kids and thought you'd father them
Now? I wouldn't even bother, hon
You see I never had a clue that harm would come
And I really loved you and now I'm done
See I got my car and it's started up
And I'll be long gone when your karma come
Had me believe I was wife
I really thought this was life
But now I'm finished, it's back to business
Remy Ma

Mariah:
Cause when you love someone
You just don't treat them bad
You messed up all we had
Probably think I'm coming back
But I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
See I used to love you
But I don't, I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
But you don't mean a thing
Cause I don't, I don't

YG:
I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You don't understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey
I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You need to understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey

Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up
Hold up, I just got you ring, for what?
I put you in the game, now it's game over
Every time you went to the Louis store you got chauffeured
Hold up, how you gon' leave that?
Hold up, give me my ring back
Never mind, you can keep that
'Cause every time you look at your ring, me, you gon' dream that

I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You don't understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey
I know you love me
You just don't trust me
You need to understand me
But you love it when I call you Ms. Carey

Mariah:
Cause when you love someone
You just don't treat them bad
You messed up all we had
Probably think I'm coming back
But I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
See I used to love you
But I don't, I don't
Boy I was bugging
Thinking somehow I could trust you
But you don't mean a thing
Cause I don't, I don't


Written by Mariah Carey, Keenon Jackson, Reminisce Mackie, Donell Jones, Kyle West.
Produced by Jermaine Dupri and Bryan-Michael Cox.