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What You Waiting For?

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"What You Waiting For?"
Song by Gwen Stefani
from the album Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
ReleasedJune 4, 2004 (2004-06-04)
Recorded2003
Genre
Length3:41
LabelInterscope
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Nellee Hooper
Gwen Stefani singles chronology
"Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
(2001) 		"What You Waiting For?"
(2004) 		"Rich Girl"
(2004)

"What You Waiting For?" is a single by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani. It is from her first solo studio album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby.. It was the first single from the album. It was written by Stefani and Linda Perry.

Track listings

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Music video

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The song's music video was directed by Francis Lawrence, filmed in March 2004. and produced by Caleb Dewart of DNA Inc The video deals directly with the lyrics' theme of Stefani's search for inspiration in songwriting. It opens with a lengthy non-musical section in which Stefani arrives in Los Angeles off of No Doubt's Rock Steady Tour. She receives several calls from Interscope label head Jimmy Iovine, who attempts to push her forward with her solo debut project, but she replies that she is tired and uninspired. After a failed studio attempt, Stefani sees a flyer advertising help for writer's block. Upon arrival, she is asked to fill out a suspicious questionnaire, where the camera pans to the questions which will be important. She is then told that she will be billed when she is finished. She asks for clarification only to discover that she is already back in the studio by herself. When Stefani picks up an oversized pocket watch from the piano, a rabbit knick-knack that she had previously seen jumps across the room. She throws the watch at the knick-knack, causing her to fall back on her wooden chair and find herself transported to a fantasy world based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.


Credits and personnel

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Credits adapted from the liner notes of Love. Angel. Music. Baby.[6]

Charts

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References

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