Whataya Want from Me

"Whataya Want from Me"
Single by Adam Lambert
from the album For Your Entertainment
ReleasedNovember 20, 2009
RecordedSeptember and October 2009
Studio
  • Maratone (Stockholm)
  • House of Blues (Los Angeles)
  • Germano (New York City)
GenrePop rock
Length3:47
Label
Songwriters
Producers
  • Max Martin
  • Shellback
Adam Lambert singles chronology
"For Your Entertainment"
(2009)
"Whataya Want from Me"
(2009)
"If I Had You"
(2010)
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"Whataya Want from Me"
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Music video
"Whataya Want from Me" on YouTube

"Whataya Want from Me" is a song by American recording artist Adam Lambert from his debut studio album, For Your Entertainment (2009). The pop rock track was written by Pink, along with its producers Max Martin, and Shellback. Pink originally recorded the song for her fifth studio album, Funhouse (2008), but it was left off because she felt it did not fit the album’s thematic focus. Her version later appeared on certain editions of her greatest hits compilation, Greatest Hits... So Far!!! (2010).

After being excluded from Funhouse, the song was offered to Lambert. His version was released as the second single from his album. "Whataya Want from Me" charted within the top 10 of the charts in thirteen countries and also peaked at number ten on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming his highest charting single yet. Well-received by music critics, it earned Lambert a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 53rd awards ceremony.

A music video for "Whataya Want from Me," directed by Diane Martel and filmed in Los Angeles in December 2009, depicts Lambert in a tense, unseen relationship. The song was later included on the set list of Lambert's first concert tour, the 2010 Glam Nation Tour where he performed an acoustic rendition of it during the "ballad" section of the show. "Whataya Want from Me" is also featured as one of the numbers in the 2019 jukebox musical & Juliet.