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Favorite Waste of TimeBette Midler

Released: August 1, 1983

Songwriter: Marshall Crenshaw

Producer: Chuck Plotkin

You're my-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite waste of time
My-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite waste of time

Here I am, I'm playing daydreaming fool again
My favorite game
And you are the one who's got my head in the clouds above
You're the one that I love and
You're my-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite waste of time
My-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite waste of time

I don't care if being with you
Is meaningless and ridiculous;
If it's wrong or right
I'm gonna give you my love tonight
And tomorrow night 'cause
You're my-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite waste of time
My-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite wast of time

Ooh, ooh, ohh, yeah
You're my-i-i-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite waste of time
My-i-i-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite waste of time

And one last thing:
I'm gonna give you my love tonight
And the bells gonna ring 'cause
You're my-i-i-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite waste of time
My-i-i-i-i-i, baby. you're my favorite waste of time
My-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite waste of time
My-i-i-i-i-i, baby, you're my favorite waste of time!

Bette Midler

Bette Midler is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, comedienne and actress. Named in honor of Bette Davis, Midler’s career began performing off-broadway until she developed the stage persona The Divine Miss M while singing at the world-famous Continental Baths gay bathhouse. A pre-fame Barry Manilow, the venue’s in-house piano player, produced her Grammy-nominated debut album which scored three US top 40 singles including the Grammy-nominated “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. Midler took home the Best New Artist Grammy that year, her first of three career wins.

Throughout the 1970s, Midler found further success with music, Broadway, television and film. The Rose, Midler’s 1979 acting debut, earned her both Oscar and Academy Award nominations, and its namesake song won her a Golden Globe and another Grammy – also giving Midler her first success overseas.

The early 1980s proved less successful for Midler with four under-performing singles and a box office flop with the film Jinxed. However, the second half of the decade would prove far more fruitful with a handful of very successful films including Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune and Beaches, the latter featuring a chart-topping cover of “Wind Beneath My Wings” that won Midler her third Grammy and is considered one of the greatest songs in American film history.

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