What I Am

What I Am

Infobox Single
Name = What I Am


Caption = 7" single cover
Artist = Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Album = Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
B-side = "I Do", "Walk on the Wildside"
Released = 1988
Format = 7" single, 12" single, 3" CD single, cassette single
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 4:54
Label = Geffen
Writer = Edie Brickell, Kenny Withrow
Producer = Pat Moran
Certification =
Last single =
This single = "What I Am"
(1988)
Next single = "Circle"
(1988)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = single


Lower caption = Cassette single cover Infobox Single
Name = What I Am


Artist = Tin Tin Out featuring Emma Bunton
Album = Eleven to Fly "and" A Girl Like Me
B-side = "Weird (Save Yourself)"
Released = 1 November 1999
Format = CD single
Recorded = Sarm West Studios
(London)
Genre = Pop rock
Length = 4:34
Label = VC
Writer = Edie Brickell, Kenny Withrow
Producer = Tin Tin Out
Audio sample? = yes
Certification =
Chronology = Tin Tin Out singles
Last single = "Eleven to Fly"
(1999)
This single = "What I Am"
(1999)
Next single = "Anybody's Guess"
(2000)
Misc = Extra chronology
Artist = Emma Bunton
Type = singles
Last single =
This single = "What I Am"
(1999)
Next single = "What Took You So Long?"
(2001) Audiosample
Upper caption = Audio sample
Name = What I Am
Audio file = WhatIAmSample.ogg

"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".

Track listings and formats

;7" single / cassette singleSide A:
#"What I Am" – 4:54

Side B:
#"I Do" – 2:00

;12" single / 3" CD single
#"What I Am" – 4:54
#"I Do" – 2:00
#"Walk on the Wildside" – 5:52

Charts

Tin Tin Out featuring Emma Bunton cover 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. In the UL it debuted at #29 and peaked at #5 selling 189,192 copies

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

Charts

Other cover versions

* The song was covered by neo soul singer Sy Smith in 2000 for her debut album, "Psykosoul".
* The song was covered by heavy metal band F5 for their 2005 album "A Drug for All Seasons".
* Italian group Nossa Alma Canta covered the song in bossa nova style on the 2008 album "I Was Made For Bossa".

ampling

* The song was sampled by Brand Nubian on their 1990 song "Slow Down".
* The song was sampled by New Edition on their song "Something About You", from the 1996 album, "Home Again"
* 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".

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