Wasting My Time (Default song)

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"Wasting My Time"
Single by Default
from the album The Fallout
B-side

"Blind"

  • "Slow Me Down"
  • "Deny"
Released September 25, 2001 (2001-09-25)
Format
Genre
Length 4:29
Label TVT
Writer(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 recorded by Canadian rock band Default for their 2001 debut studio album, The Fallout. It was released as their debut single in September 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 3 and 2, respectively, on the US Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock airplay charts, just behind Nickelback's "How You Remind Me". It was also their first of three singles to top the Canadian rock airplay chart.[1]

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 lasts for four minutes and twenty-nine seconds.[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–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 August 7, 2001.[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[9]/US[10]/Canada CD single[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 instalment of the MTV animated series, Daria.[12]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2001–03) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[13] 43
Canada Rock Airplay (Nielsen SoundScan)[1][14] 1
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[15] 97
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[16] 37
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[17] 71
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[18] 73
UK Rock and Metal (Official Charts Company)[19] 6
US Billboard Hot 100[20] 13
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[21] 14
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[22] 2
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[23] 11
US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard)[24] 3

Year end charts

Chart (2002) Position
US Billboard Hot 100[25] 26
US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks (Billboard)[25] 4
US Hot Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard)[25] 8

Notes

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

References

  1. 1 2 Shaw, Ted (November 6, 2013). "Singer Dallas Smith, country by default". The Windsor Star. Postmedia Network. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Hinds, Andy. "The Fallout - Default | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Default "Wasting My Time" Sheet Music in D Major (transposable)". Musicnotes.com. EMI Music Publishing. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ Billboard (113 ed.). Prometheus Global Media. October 13, 2001. p. 24. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ Dangelo, Joe (December 12, 2001). "Default Aren't Wasting Their Time, Thanks To Nickelback". MTV. Viacom. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Wasting My Time - Default". Vevo. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ ""Wasting My Time" on Apple Music". Apple Music. Apple Inc. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ "DEFAULT - Wasting My Time (CD, Single / EP)". Rare Records (AUS). Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Wasting My Time, Pt. I [UK] - Default | Release Info". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Default - Wasting My Time - Amazon.com Music". Amazon Music. Amazon.com. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Default - Wasting My Time - Amazon.com Music". Amazon Music. Amazon.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Default - IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Australian-charts.com – Default – Wasting My Time". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  14. ↑ Pilling, Dean (August 26, 2016). "Gone Country: My list of rock stars who have made the leap into country music". Calgary Sun. Postmedia Network. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Default – Wasting My Time" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Default – Wasting My Time". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  17. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2003-02-02". Scottish Singles Top 40. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Default: Artist Chart History" Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2003-02-02" UK Rock Chart. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  20. ↑ "Default – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Default. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  21. ↑ "Default – Chart history" Billboard Adult Pop Songs for Default. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  22. ↑ "Default – Chart history" Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs for Default. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  23. ↑ "Default – Chart history" Billboard Pop Songs for Default. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  24. ↑ "Default – Chart history". Billboard Modern Rock Tracks for Default. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  25. 1 2 3 Billboard (114 ed.). Prometheus Global Media. December 28, 2002. pp. YE–38, YE–87. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
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