If That's What You're Thinking
{{short description|1983 song by Karen Brooks}}
{{Infobox song
| name = If That's What You're Thinking
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Karen Brooks
| album = Walk On
| B-side = "Every Beat of My Heart"{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2017|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2017|page=55|isbn=978-0-89820-229-8}}
| released = February 1983
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre = Country
| length = 3:25
| label = Warner
| writer = Randy Sharp
| producer = Brian Ahern
| prev_title = Faking Love
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = Walk On
| next_year = 1983
}}
"If That's What You're Thinking" is a song by American country music singer Karen Brooks. It is the second single from her 1982 album Walk On, and it was written by Randy Sharp.
History
Karen Brooks recorded "If That's What You're Thinking" on her 1982 album Walk On. The song features two verses, a refrain, a bridge sung in Spanish, followed by a repeat of the chorus and first verse. Erin E. Bauer, in the book Flaco's Legacy: The Globalization of Conjunto describes the song as being about "fear on the part of the vocalist to express vulnerability in the face of a loving relationship."{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ca5EAAAQBAJ | title=Flaco's Legacy: The Globalization of Conjunto | publisher=University of Illinois Press | author=Erin E. Bauer | year=2023 | chapter=Collaborative hybridity: Texas Tornados| isbn=978-0-252-05429-7 }} John Lomax III of United Feature Syndicate described the song as having a "Spanish touch".{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/162970671/ | title=Rogers' final Liberty LP out | work=Arizona Daily Star | date=February 27, 1983 | accessdate=September 22, 2023 | author=John Lomax III | pages=I9}} Brian Ahern produced the track, which was written by Randy Sharp.{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/601249917/ | title=Country rhythms: Karen Brooks took the long way around | work=The Shreveport Journal | date=November 26, 1982 | accessdate=September 22, 2023 | author=John Lomax III | pages=C15}}
Texas Tornados covered the song on their 1990 Reprise Records album Texas Tornados. Their rendition adds a verse not present in the original by Brooks, while also altering the words of the Spanish-language bridge. Bauer thought this rendition combined elements of country and conjunto.
Charts
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|+ Weekly chart performance for "If That's What You're Thinking" ! scope="col"| Chart (1983) ! scope="col"| Peak |
| {{single chart|Billboardcountrysongs|21|artist=Karen Brooks|rowheader=true}} |