"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]
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.[A] 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]
"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]
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.[A] 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]