Songfacts®:

• Sass Jordan's sophomore album, Racine, opens with "Make You A Believer," a happy song with a simple message. "What it's saying is, 'I will make you a believer in yourself,'" the Canadian rocker explained in a 2023 Songfacts interview, "and that's the greatest message ever because you've got to believe in yourself. It's nothing other than that."
• Jordan didn't have to work too hard to write the song - she just had to clear enough space for it to come through. "It kind of 'downloaded' to me," she recalled. "It just flowed out - I wasn't really thinking about it. I don't usually spend much time thinking about what I'm writing, which is pretty obvious in some songs. But clearing the space to let it flow through. Maybe it comes from your subconscious or another realm or your higher self - it just comes out."
• Jordan also keeps a list of titles in her songwriting toolkit as a source of inspiration. "Then I'll hear whoever I'm writing with, their chord structures that they're putting together, and it will suggest one of the titles," she said. "And once one of the titles is chosen for me, the song just bursts itself."
• Jordan wrote this with Rick Neigher, who also produced the album and provided guitar work and backing vocals on many of the tracks. They collaborated again on Jordan's 1997 album, Present.
• Peaking at #12, this was Jordan's third single to reach the Top 20 in Canada, following "Tell Somebody" and "Double Trouble." It was also her first single to enter the US Mainstream Rock chart, where it peaked at #11. She made the tally two more times with the single "You Don't Have To Remind Me" and "High Road Easy."
• Racine (1992) is Jordan's best-selling album, with more than 450,000 sales worldwide. That same year, she landed a high-profile gig singing the duet "Trust In Me" with Joe Cocker for The Bodyguard soundtrack.