Wasting My Time

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"Wasting My Time"
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Single by Default
from the album The Fallout
B-side
  • "Blind"
  • "Slow Me Down"
  • "Deny"
ReleasedAugust 28, 2001 (2001-08-28)
Genre
Length4:29
Label TVT
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Default singles chronology
"Wasting My Time"
(2001)
"Deny"
(2002)
Music video
"Wasting My Time" on YouTube

"Wasting My Time" is a song by Canadian rock band Default for their first studio album, The Fallout (2001). It was released as their debut single on August 28, 2001. The song was written by the members of the band and produced by Chad Kroeger and Rick Parashar. "Wasting My Time" is Default's most commercially successful song, having reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 8, 2002, and numbers two and three, respectively, on the US Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock airplay charts, just behind Puddle of Mudd's "Blurry" on the former chart. It was also their first of three singles to top the Canadian rock airplay chart. [1]

Contents

Composition

"Wasting My Time" was written by Default (Dallas Smith, Jeremy Hora, Dave Benedict, and Danny Craig) and was produced by Chad Kroeger and Rick Parashar. The song is a power ballad that draws on influences of various rock genres and runs 4:29. [upper-alpha 1] According to the sheet music published by EMI Music Publishing, it is set in common time to a "moderate rock" tempo of 120 BPM. [3] "Wasting My Time" was originally composed in the key of D major and follows a chord progression of Dsus9–Gsus9 in the verses and G5–B5–G5–A5 in the chorus. [3] Smith's vocal range on the track spans one full octave, from A4 to A5. [3]

Musically, the song features melodic verses of singing and clean, bright guitar picking. This moves into a hard-hitting, wailing chorus and a distorted guitar solo as the interlude. Eric Aiese of Billboard described the song as having an "early-90s grunge sound" while also noting the influence of alternative rock in its production. [4] The song's lyrics find the narrator contemplating if he is wasting his time investing in a dead-end relationship. [5]

Music video

A music video was filmed for the song and centers around a woman waiting for her companion. They finally meet at the end and embrace. Band performance fills the majority of the video and takes place in the woman's wrist watch, with the top part showing the city show through glass with the watch hands rotating around the band. The video contains scenes shot in downtown Toronto, Ontario outside the Westin Harbour Castle. It was directed by Noble Jones and premiered on August 7, 2001. The video has a guest appearance by Chad Kroeger in a scene where one man was fighting or struggling against three others. [6] [7]

Track listings

Australia CD single [8]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Wasting My Time"
  • Dallas Smith
  • Jeremy Hora
  • Dave Benedict
  • Danny Craig
3:56
2."Slow Me Down"
  • Smith
  • Hora
  • Benedict
  • Craig
  • Chad Kroeger
3:23
3."Deny" (acoustic)
  • Smith
  • Hora
  • Benedict
  • Craig
  • Kroeger
3:54
Total length:11:17
UK, US, and Canadian CD single [9] [10] [11]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Wasting My Time" (radio edit)
  • Smith
  • Hora
  • Benedict
  • Craig
3:59
2."Wasting My Time" (acoustic)
  • Smith
  • Hora
  • Benedict
  • Craig
4:19
3."Blind"
  • Smith
  • Hora
  • Benedict
  • Craig
  • Kroeger
3:10
4."Wasting My Time" (video) 4:06
Total length:15:34

Usage in media

"Wasting My Time" was featured on the soundtrack to Is It College Yet? , a movie-length installment of the MTV animated series, Daria . [12]

Charts

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Wasting My Time"
RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesAugust 28, 2001 TVT [32]
United KingdomJanuary 27, 2003CD Island [33]

Notes

  1. Length of the full version featured on The Fallout. [2]

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