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If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (IICHLIWP) is Halsey's fourth studio album, released August 27, 2021 on Capitol Records, produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross; a pregnancy-themed concept album with a companion IMAX/HBO Max film.

If I Could Turn Back Time

"If I Could Turn Back Time" is a 1989 Cher pop rock single from Heart of Stone, written by Diane Warren, produced with Guy Roche; US Hot 100 No. 3, Australian No. 1, with a controversial USS Missouri music video banned for daytime MTV viewing.

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer is the 2007 Goldman family edition of O.J. Simpson's ghostwritten hypothetical murder account, originally canceled by HarperCollins in 2006 and republished after a bankruptcy court awarded the rights to Ron Goldman's family.

If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem

If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms) is Faulkner's 1939 novel of two interwoven narratives, lovers on the run in New Orleans and a convict on a flooded Mississippi, published against Faulkner's preferred Psalm 137 title.

If I Go Will They Miss Me

If I Go Will They Miss Me is Walter Thompson-Hernández's 2026 Sundance NEXT drama, also known by its short-film original title, about a Watts boy mythologizing his father; it stars Bodhi Dell, Danielle Brooks, and J. Alphonse Nicholson, released by Rich Spirit in September 2026.

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is a 2025 A24 psychological drama written and directed by Mary Bronstein, starring Rose Byrne as therapist Linda caring for her ill daughter; Sundance 2025 premiere, Golden Globe win and 2026 Oscar nomination for Byrne.

If I Must Die

If I Must Die is a 2011 English-language poem by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, dedicated to his daughter Shymaa, asking survivors to tell his story and fly a white kite over Gaza; it went viral after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on December 6, 2023.

If I Should Fall from Grace with God

If I Should Fall from Grace with God is the Pogues' 1988 studio album. It marked the band's peak commercial success, entering the UK charts at number 3.

If I Stay

If I Stay is a 2009 young adult novel by Gayle Forman. It follows 17-year-old cellist Mia Hall after her parents are killed in a car accident.

If I Stay (film)

If I Stay is a 2014 American teen romantic drama film directed by R.J. Cutler, starring Chloë Grace Moretz as a young cellist, based on Gayle Forman's 2009 novel.

If I Were a Boy

If I Were a Boy, Beyoncé's 2008 R&B power ballad from I Am... Sasha Fierce, written by BC Jean and Toby Gad, released as a double A-side with Single Ladies; UK number one and her best-selling single there.

If It Bleeds

If It Bleeds is Stephen King's 2020 Scribner collection of four novellas: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story, a Holly Gibney sequel to The Outsider; three stories were quickly optioned for film.

If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord

If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord (うちの娘の為ならば、俺はもしかしたら魔王も倒せるかもしれない。) is a CHIROLU fantasy light novel about adventurer Dale adopting the devil girl Latina; web novel 2014-2017, nine Hobby Japan volumes, Hota manga, and a 2019 Maho Film anime.

If Loving You Is Wrong

If Loving You Is Wrong is a Tyler Perry prime-time soap opera on OWN (2014–2020), spun off from The Single Moms Club, following five couples in the fictional community of Maxine; its 1.93-million-viewer premiere was OWN's most-watched.

If Not Higher

"If Not Higher" is a 1900 short story by Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz, in which a skeptic discovers a rabbi's secret acts of charity.

If on a winter's night a traveler

Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (If on a winter's night a traveler) is Italo Calvino's 1979 metafictional novel: a second-person frame story about a Reader interrupted by ten unfinished novel openings, translated by William Weaver in 1981.

If the Führer knew

"If the Führer knew" (German: Wenn das der Führer wüsste) was a saying in Nazi Germany that exempted Hitler from blame for the regime's actions.

If the South Had Won the Civil War

If the South Had Won the Civil War is MacKinlay Kantor's 1961 alternate history novella, first in Look magazine (November 22, 1960). Grant dies May 12, 1863; the Confederacy wins, abolishes slavery, and the divided American nations reunify in the 1960s.

If the Sun Rose in the West

If the Sun Rose in the West (해가 서쪽에서 뜬다면) is a 1998 South Korean romance drama, Lee Eun's directorial debut, starring Im Chang-jung, Ko So-young, and Cha Seung-won; a traffic cop turned baseball umpire reunites with a top star actress, released December 19, 1998.

If There Be Thorns

If There Be Thorns, also published as Si Hubiera Espinas, is V.C. Andrews' 1981 third Dollanganger novel, in which Cathy and Chris live as married siblings until their disguised mother Corrine moves next door and corrupts son Bart; adapted as a 2015 Lifetime TV movie.

If There Be Thorns (film)

If There Be Thorns is a 2015 American made-for-television thriller directed by Nancy Savoca, adapted from V.C. Andrews's novel and starring Rachael Carpani, Jason Lewis, and Heather Graham.

If There Is No Tomorrow (我是余欢水)

If There Is No Tomorrow (我是余欢水) is a 2020 12-episode Chinese web drama by Zhengwu Yangguang and iQIYI, directed by Sun Molong, starring Guo Jingfei, adapted from Yu Geng's novel If There Is No Tomorrow, about a misdiagnosed loser's absurd reversal.

If This Is a Man

If This Is a Man (Se questo è un uomo) is Primo Levi's 1947 memoir of Auschwitz-Monowitz, rejected by Einaudi, first printed by De Silva in 2,500 copies, and established by the 1958 Einaudi edition.

If U Seek Amy

"If U Seek Amy" is a 2009 Britney Spears single from Circus, written by Max Martin and others, whose title puns on "F-U-C-K me", prompting PTC protests, a radio edit retitled "If U See Amy", and a No. 19 Billboard Hot 100 peak.

If Wishes Could Kill (소원을 말해봐)

If Wishes Could Kill (기리고, Girigo), also known as Wish Your Death, is Netflix's first Korean young adult horror series: an 8-episode 2026 limited series directed by Park Youn-seo, about high schoolers cursed by a wish-granting app that starts a 24-hour death countdown.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride: an English proverb and nursery rhyme dismissing wishful thinking. Recorded 1605 by Camden as a thrushes form, in horses form in Carmichaell's Scots proverbs (d. 1628), standardized by James Kelly in 1721.

If You Are the One (非诚勿扰)

If You Are the One (非诚勿扰) is Feng Xiaogang's 2008 romantic comedy starring Ge You and Shu Qi; China's top domestic film of 2008 at over ¥364 million, inspired by The Personals, with sequels in 2010 and 2023.

If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears

If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears is the 1966 debut studio album by the Mamas & the Papas, featuring "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday".

If You Could Read My Mind

"If You Could Read My Mind," Gordon Lightfoot's 1969 song about his failing marriage, recorded 1970 for Sit Down Young Stranger; 1971 hit at No. 5 Hot 100, No. 1 in Canada, with 100-plus covers.

If You Don't Know Me by Now

"If You Don't Know Me by Now" is a 1972 Gamble and Huff soul ballad recorded by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes with Teddy Pendergrass on lead; it topped the Billboard R&B chart, hit number three pop, and Simply Red's 1989 cover reached number one.