What Are You Looking For

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"What Are You Looking For"
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Single by Sick Puppies
from the album Dressed Up as Life
Released 13 May 2008
Recorded 2006
Genre Post-grunge
Length4:09
Label Virgin
Songwriter(s) Kenneth Greene, J-Dub
Producer(s) Rock Mafia (Tim James, Antonina Armato)
Sick Puppies singles chronology
"Killing Myself for Christmas"
(2007)
"What Are You Looking For"
(2008)
"Pitiful"
(2008)

"Killing Myself for Christmas"
(2007)
"What Are You Looking For"
(2008)
"Pitiful"
(2008)

"What Are You Looking For" is the third single released from Sick Puppies' 2007 album Dressed Up as Life .

Single (music) Type of music release usually containing one or two tracks

In the music industry, a single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record or an album. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular. In other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album.

Sick Puppies Australian rock band

Sick Puppies are an Australian rock band, formed in 1997. Sick Puppies rose to prominence in 2006 when their song "All the Same" was uploaded, along with a video, to YouTube. The video supported the Free Hugs Campaign, which was launched in Sydney, and has since received over 78 million views on the website. This success was followed up with Dressed Up as Life in 2007, which entered the Billboard 200 at number 181. Their third studio album, Tri-Polar, came out on July 14, 2009. The band's fourth studio album, Connect was released on July 16, 2013. They released their fifth studio album, Fury on May 20, 2016 with new vocalist Bryan Scott after Shimon Moore left the band in October 2014.

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2007.

Contents

Music video

To follow up the band's phenomenal Free Hugs Campaign YouTube success with their song All the Same, in the Summer of 2008, the band held a YouTube video contest among fans around the world to select the official video for What Are You Looking For.

Free Hugs Campaign

The Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places. The hugs are meant to be random acts of kindness—selfless acts performed just to make others feel better. International Free Hugs Month is celebrated on the first Saturday of July and continues until August first.

YouTube video-sharing service owned by Google

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

All the Same 2006 single by Sick Puppies

"All the Same" is the first single released from Sick Puppies' 2007 album Dressed Up as Life, though it was first released on their self-titled EP a year before the album. It reached No. 8 on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and featured in the Free Hugs Campaign. The radio edit cuts off the middle of the second verse and end of the third verse, whereas there are no vocals in the third verse.

Charts

Chart (2008)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs [1] 34

Track listing

Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."What Are You Looking for" (Radio mix)4:11


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