What Is Love (song)

Infobox Single
Name = What Is Love
Type = Single
Artist = Haddaway
from Album = Haddaway
B-side = "Sing About Love"


Released = 1993
Genre = Eurodance
Length = 4:29 (Album Version/7" Mix)
Label = Coconut Records
Writer = D. Halligan / J. Torello
Producer = D. Halligan / J. Torello
This single = "What Is Love" (1993)
Next single = "Life" (1993)Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Background = khaki


Lower caption = "What Is Love - Remix", French CD-SingleExtra album cover
Background = khaki


Lower caption = "What Is Love - Reloaded", CD-Maxi

"What Is Love" is a 1993 dance track by the singer Haddaway, popular with club DJs. Recorded in the early '90s, it later experienced a revival as the song from the "Saturday Night Live" "Roxbury Guys" sketches, which were later made into the 1998 feature film "A Night at the Roxbury". The song was also featured as the background music for the previous night's NBA highlights on NBC's "NBA Showtime" in the mid-to-late '90s. The music video featured clips from "Metropolis". Since 1994, it has been played prior to the opening pitch of every Tulane Green Wave home baseball game.

The song reached #1 in an impressive thirteen countries, all of them European or Asian. Elsewhere, the song peaked at #2 in the United Kingdom and Germany, #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and #12 in Australia.

Covers and samples

*Haddaway's song was sampled by Atlanta crunk/hip-hop group Crime Mob on a song also called "What Is Love". The track was leaked to the Internet in late 2006, and appeared on their second album "Hated On Mostly", released March 2007.
*In June 2007, José Galisteo recorded it on his debut album, "Remember".
*The song was also given an industrial makeover by the band [http://www.soundclick.com/themdp The MDP] .
*The song has also been covered by The Gossip, with lead singer Beth Ditto changing the lyrics to "When Is Lunch?, Baby I'm Hungry".
*Most recently, Irish shoegaze band Razor Stilettos covered the song at their gig supporting The Coronas.

Uses in the media

*Played in the 1994 "Life of Brian" episode of the television show "My So-Called Life"
*Played in the 2003 movie "Just Married"
*A Hindi version of this song was played in the 1994 Indian movie "Gentleman"
*Sung by Steve Carell and Ed Helms portraying Michael Scott and Andy Bernard, respectively, in Season 3, Episode 8 ("The Merger") of "The Office"
*Played in the trailer for the 1994 film "Monkey Trouble".
*Featured in "Judson Laipply"'s "Evolution of Dance".
*Played in the Northern European versions of the 2005 computer animated film "Madagascar".
*Was featured in a Diet Pepsi Max commercial during Super Bowl XLII in the United States that also featured Chris Kattan, who played one of the brothers in the "Roxbury" sketches and movie, also telling people who are bobbing their heads to the beat to "Stop it!".
*A guy was singing "What is Love" to a girl in an Australian Dairy Farmers Moove flavoured milk advertisement.
*It was used in WCW as Julia Fletcher's theme song.
* The song appears on the game .

Track listings

¹ "What Is Love - Remixes"
² "What Is Love - Reloaded"

References

External links

* [http://www.discogs.com/release/149375 What Is Love?] on Discogs