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<p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/WhatsUpCover.jpg" alt="undefined"></p><p><br></p><p>"<strong>What's Up?</strong>" is a song by American rock group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Non_Blondes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">4 Non Blondes</a>, released in March 1993 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interscope" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Interscope</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Atlantic Records</a> as the second single from their debut album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigger,_Better,_Faster,_More!" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Bigger, Better, Faster, More!</em></a> (1992). The song was written by lead singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Perry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Linda Perry</a> and produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tickle" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Tickle</a>. It has gained popularity in the United States<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up%3F_(4_Non_Blondes_song)#cite_note-guitarcenter-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a> and in several European countries, peaking at number one in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland. The accompanying music video was directed by American film director Morgan Lawley<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up%3F_(4_Non_Blondes_song)#cite_note-morganlawley-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a> and was also nominated in the category for Best Alternative Rock Video at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Awards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MTV Video Music Awards</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up%3F_(4_Non_Blondes_song)#cite_note-morganlawley-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a></p><h2>Background and recording</h2><p>The song had its origins well before 4 Non Blondes were formed. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Eye_Blind" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Third Eye Blind</a> frontman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Jenkins" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephan Jenkins</a> recalled sitting in a room with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Perry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Linda Perry</a>, who worked as a waitress down the street, performing their original compositions to one another when the two were struggling musicians in San Francisco. The two played each other early versions of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Charmed_Life" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Semi-Charmed Life</a>" and "What's Up?", both of which would become massive hits for their respective bands. It would be decades later that Jenkins realized the songs performed in that private session would sell a combined 17 million records.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up%3F_(4_Non_Blondes_song)#cite_note-oral-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[5]</a> The title does not appear in the song's lyrics, but the phrase "what's going on?" is prominently included in the chorus.</p><p>A different version of the song, with lyrics and arrangement reworked by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_producer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">producer</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tickle" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Tickle</a>, was originally recorded at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove_Masters" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Groove Masters</a> studio as part of 4 Non Blondes' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigger,_Better,_Faster,_More!" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">debut album</a>, but Perry hated it so much that she complained to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interscope" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Interscope</a> executives. When she was told that the song sounded fine, Perry took matters into her own hands and booked a recording session at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Plant" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Plant</a> for the band to re-record her original version of the song.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up%3F_(4_Non_Blondes_song)#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up%3F_(4_Non_Blondes_song)#cite_note-SOSSep2023-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a> The song was re-recorded in one day, with the label's co-owner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Iovine" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jimmy Iovine</a> agreeing that he preferred the re-recorded version based on Perry's demo over Tickle's, and establishing Perry's version as the final version of the song.</p><p>During an interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_Op" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Tape Op</em></a> magazine, Perry recalled how the recording went:</p><blockquote>The producer (David Tickle) had no sense of what the song was. I went to the label and said "This song sucks. This is not the song I wrote." They didn't support me. They said it sounded fine. I did not agree. I grabbed the band during a break and we went to The Record Plant in Sausalito. ... I started moving things around. The engineer there helped me a lot. I would tell him what I wanted, and if he didn't get it I would move the microphone around. Then I'd go, "Yes, that's it. That's the sound." I did that with everything. Then we got the tempo, and we got the recording of it, the base of it, done. I re-did my acoustics. I was in the middle of vocals when David Tickle showed up. I'd laid down three vocals. I was annoyed he showed up. We were already done with the frigging song. We comped the vocal and mixed it that night, and it made mastering the next day. That is the version that blew up all over the world. [...] I've told the story enough that people know that David Tickle did not produce that song. It was me.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Up%3F_(4_Non_Blondes_song)#cite_note-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[7]</a></blockquote><p>Tickle's instrumental (over the original vocals) could be heard on Perry's episode of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Behind the Music</em></a>; Tickle's version was never released.</p>