What's Up?

song written and composed by Linda Perry, originally recorded by 4 Non Blondes and released in 1992
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q2604122
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What's Up?

Summary

What's Up? is a musical work/composition[1]. What's Up? ranks in the top 0.29% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,781 views/month, #57 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • What's Up?'s instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • What's Up?'s genre is alternative rock[4].
  • What's Up? was followed by Spaceman[5].
  • What's Up? was performed by 4 Non Blondes[6].
  • What's Up? was performed by Dolly Parton[7].
  • What's Up?'s record label is recorded as Interscope Records[8].
  • What's Up? is part of Bigger, Better, Faster, More![9].
  • What's Up?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • What's Up? was published on June 23, 1993[11].
  • What's Up?'s lyricist is recorded as Linda Perry[12].
  • What's Up?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "What's Up?"}[13].
  • What's Up?'s form of creative work is recorded as song[14].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[15]

  • Genre(s): electronic, euro house, house[16]

  • Community tags: electronic, euro house, house, meme[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f2b253f2-2880-3425-b99e-95c7aabd387f[18]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include 4 Non Blondes[6] and Dolly Parton[7].

Publication

What's Up? was released on June 23, 1993[11]. What's Up?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is alternative rock[4]. What's Up? is part of Bigger, Better, Faster, More![9].

Adaptations and Inspiration

What's Up? was followed by Spaceman[5].

Why It Matters

What's Up? ranks in the top 0.29% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,781 views/month, #57 of 19,375).[2] What's Up? has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] What's Up? is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [15] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [16] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [17] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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