What I Am

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"What I Am"

Single by Tin Tin Out featuring Emma Bunton
from the album Eleven To Fly and A Girl Like Me
B-side(s)	"Weird (Save Yourself)"
Released	November 1, 1999
Format	CD single
Recorded	Sarm West Studios, London
Genre	Pop/Rock
Length	4:34
Label	VC Recordings
Writer(s)	Kenny Withrow, Edie Brickell
Producer(s)	Tin Tin Out
Chart positions
#2 (UK)
Tin Tin Out singles chronology
"Eleven To Fly" (1999)	"What I Am" (1999)	"Anybody's Guess" (2000)
Emma Bunton singles chronology
	"What I Am" (1999)	"What Took You So Long?" (2001)

"What I Am" is a song written by Edie Brickell and Kenny Withrow and recorded by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians for their 1988 debut album Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars. It reached the top forty in both the UK and U.S.

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It was covered by Tin Tin Out and Emma Bunton, and released as the second single taken from Tin Tin Out's album Eleven To Fly (1999) and the first single from Bunton's solo debut album A Girl Like Me (2001). It was released in the autumn of 1999 in the UK.

Tin Tin Out and Bunton's version debuted and peaked at number two on the UK Top 75 Singles, losing the battle against former co-Spice Girl member Geri Halliwell's "Lift Me Up." It sold 106,000 copies to get to number two in its first week and around 215,000 copies altogether. "What I Am" was the eighty-eighth best seller of 1999. Audio sample (help·info)