Songfacts®:

• "It's Over Now" was Ultra Naté's debut single, released in 1989. The song launched her career and became an underground club hit.
• Lyrically, the track deals with the end of a relationship, with Naté seeking emotional closure. Naté wrote the lyric, drawing from her childhood spent absorbing her mother's soul and funk records, which often include these themes.
• The song was produced by the Basement Boys, a production team from Baltimore consisting of Jay Steinhour, Teddy Douglas, and Tommy Davis - Douglas is credited as a writer on the song along with Naté.
  
  The Baltimore connection was pivotal to Ultra Naté's career launch. She met Tommy Davis at Odell's, a popular nightclub in Baltimore where he DJed. Davis, impressed by Ultra's singing in her church choir, invited her to hang out at the studio where the Basement Boys were working on productions. This led to Ultra's audition for the group, where she sang Angela Winbush's "Angel." The audition was successful, and the collaboration that produced "It's Over Now" began.
  
  The name "Basement Boys" was literal - they recorded in Jay's basement, with the vocal booth being the bathroom.
• Naté wrote the lyrics spontaneously in one take in the studio, without having heard the music beforehand. As she described it to True House Stories: "I'd never done any of this before, but I was really kind of adventurous with it, and I felt like I had nothing to lose."
• Naté performed the song live for the first time at a club called Fantasy in Baltimore, with her friends helping style her for the performance.
• The song gained popularity through play at Club Zanzibar in Newark, New Jersey, by influential DJ Tony Humphries, who became a longtime supporter of Ultra Naté.
• The song earned Ultra Naté a record deal when it caught the attention of Cynthia Cherry. Cherry, along with Peter Edge, formed Eternal Records as a dance music imprint under the Warner-Elektra-Atlantic (WEA) umbrella. Impressed by the potential of "It's Over Now," Cherry and Edge flew from the UK to New York to meet Ultra in person at the legendary Club Zanzibar. This meeting coincided with one of Ultra's performances at the club, allowing them to witness firsthand the impact of the song on the dance floor.
  
  Ultra referred to Cherry as her "fairy godmother"; signing to Eternal Records marked her transition from a local Baltimore sensation to an internationally recognized artist. This was a time when underground club hits could lead to major label deals in dance music.
• The song was included on Ultra Naté's debut album, Blue Notes In The Basement, released in 1991 on Warner Bros UK. Over the next two decades, Ultra continued to release hit singles and albums, becoming a staple in the dance music scene. Her 1997 track "Free" became her biggest hit and best-known song.
  
  Naté is also known as a DJ, and even launched her own record label, Deep Sugar.