Godsmack lead singer Sully Erna and guitarist Tony Rambola wrote "Whatever." Rambola explained: "That's Sully's answer to his girlfriend when we were going through the whole struggle between rehearsing five nights a week, playing on the weekends and trying to keep a relationship going at the same time. We were really starting to take off, and it's hard to go through a relationship with a girl and have a band take all your time, plus we worked regular jobs, so there was probably 10 minutes of the day for them."
This was Godsmack's first single. The band got a lot of exposure when a disc jockey at WAAF, a radio station in Massachusetts, started playing this on his show. Godsmack had a following from their club shows, but had never gotten airplay before.
This was the longest-running song on the US Active Rock Top 10 chart. It was there for 33 weeks.
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