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What the Fuck Are We Saying?

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"What the Fuck Are We Saying?"
Single by Lenny Kravitz
from the album Mama Said
ReleasedSeptember 1991
GenreRock
Length5:13
LabelVirgin
Songwriter(s)Lenny Kravitz
Producer(s)Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz singles chronology
"Stand by My Woman"
(1991)
"What the Fuck Are We Saying?"
(1991)
"Stop Draggin' Around"
(1991)
Music video
What The .... Are We Saying? (2012 Remaster/Explicit) on YouTube

"What the Fuck Are We Saying?" is a song written and recorded by American singer Lenny Kravitz[1] and released in September 1991, as the fifth single from his second studio album Mama Said.[2][3]

Reception

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Christopher A. Daniel of Albumism stated, "On the concerned “What the Fuck Are We Saying?,” Kravitz takes crash courses in studying Stevie Wonder’s lyricism on the 1973 Grammy-winning LP Innervisions and Brian Eno’s (or maybe Kraftwerk’s) synthesizer methodology."[4]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."What the Fuck Are We Saying?"Lenny Kravitz5:13
2."Stop Draggin' Around"Lenny Kravitz3:05
3."Fields of Joy (Reprise)"Hal Fredericks, Michael Kamen4:00

Charts

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Chart (1991) Peak
position
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[5] 25
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[6] 34

References

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  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2006). The Billboard Albums: Includes Every Album that Made the Billboard 200 Chart : 50 Year History of the Rock Era. Record Research Incorporated. p. 575. ISBN 978-0-89820-166-6. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  2. ^ "What the Fuck Are We Saying? - Lenny Kravitz | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  3. ^ Caprelli, Davide (15 April 2015). Lenny Kravitz. God is Love: La vita, la musica, l'arte e la spiritualità (in Italian). Vololibero. ISBN 978-88-97637-44-8. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  4. ^ Daniel, Christopher A. "Lenny Kravitz's 'Mama Said' Turns 30 | Anniversary Retrospective". Albumism. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Lenny Kravitz" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  6. ^ "Lenny Kravitz – What the Fuck Are We Saying?" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
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