What I Am
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7" single cover
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| Single by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians from the album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars |
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| B-side | "I Do", "Walk on the Wildside" | ||||
| Released | 1988 | ||||
| Format | 7" single, 12" single, 3" CD single, cassette single | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Length | 4:54 | ||||
| Label | Geffen | ||||
| Writer(s) | Edie Brickell, Kenny Withrow | ||||
| Producer | Pat Moran | ||||
| Edie Brickell & New Bohemians singles chronology | |||||
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Cassette single cover
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| Single by Tin Tin Out featuring Emma Bunton from the album Eleven to Fly and A Girl Like Me |
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| B-side | "Weird (Save Yourself)" | ||||
| Released | 1 November 1999 | ||||
| Format | CD single | ||||
| Recorded | Sarm West Studios (London) |
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| Genre | Pop rock | ||||
| Length | 4:34 | ||||
| Label | VC | ||||
| Writer(s) | Edie Brickell, Kenny Withrow | ||||
| Producer | Tin Tin Out | ||||
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| Emma Bunton singles chronology | |||||
| "What I Am" (1999) |
"What Took You So Long?" (2001) |
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"What I Am" is a song written by Edie Brickell and Kenny Withrow and recorded by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians for their debut album, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988). It peaked at number thirty-one in the United Kingdom, while reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. This version was ranked number seventy-seven on VH1's list of "100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders". The song was featured in a 1989 episode of Miami Vice.
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[edit] Track listings and formats
Side A:
Side B:
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[edit] Charts
| Chart (1988) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks | 9 |
| Chart (1989) | Peak position |
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 18 |
| UK Singles Chart | 31 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 7 |
[edit] Tin Tin Out featuring Emma Bunton version
The song was covered by English duo Tin Tin Out and English singer-songwriter Emma Bunton, and released in November 1999 as the second single from Tin Tin Out's second studio album, Eleven to Fly (1999). It also appeared on Bunton's debut solo album, A Girl Like Me (2001).
Tin Tin Out and Bunton's version debuted and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, losing the battle against Bunton's former co-Spice Girl member Geri Halliwell's "Lift Me Up". It sold 106,000 copies to get to number two in its first week and around 220,023 copies altogether. "What I Am" was the UK's eighty-eighth best-selling single of 1999.
[edit] Track listing
- UK CD single
- "What I Am" (Radio Version) – 3:54
- "What I Am" (Gangstarr Remix) – 4:07
- "Weird (Save Yourself)" (Tin Tin Out featuring Wendy Page) – 5:42
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1999) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[1] | 65 |
| French Singles Chart | 75 |
| German Singles Chart | 81 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 14 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 48 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 52 |
| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
| United World Chart | 34 |
[edit] Other covers and sampling
- The song was covered by heavy metal band F5 for their 2005 album A Drug for All Seasons.
- The song was covered by neo soul singer Sy Smith in 2000 for her debut album, Psykosoul.
- The song was sampled by Brand Nubian on their 1990 song "Slow Down".
- Portions of the song were resung by Lauryn Hill and sampled into Aretha Franklin's 1998 hit "A Rose Is Still a Rose".
- The drum beat from an Italian bootleg version of the song was sampled and looped in Primal Scream's "Loaded".
[edit] References
- ^ "ARIA Report: 16th April 2001 Chartifacts". ARIA Charts. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
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