When was waiting for tonight released

Richard Harrington from The Washington Post was unfavorable of the song, calling it a "generic" dance track. Deseret News described Lopez's vocals as "sultry" but thin, whilst noting that she finds a "nice ring" in songs such as "Waiting for Tonight". Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine observed that her vocals were best-suited for dance-pop songs such as "Waiting for Tonight".

The track was released on October 27, in Austria, and five days later in the United Kingdom. The track peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart, and had sold , copies there by July The song debuted and peaked at number two in Spain, where it spent twelve weeks charting in the top ten.

The track reached the top thirty in Brazil peaking at number twenty-one and Austria number twenty-four. In its eleventh week on the chart, it reached a peak of number four.

Overall, it spent six weeks in the top ten. The song was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association for shipments of 70, units. After entering the Official New Zealand Music Chart at number 42 for the week ending October 31, , the song peaked at number five one month later. The track was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand for shipment of 7, units.

The following week, the song peaked at number eight on the Hot , on the chart dated December 4, The song was released to retail on a limited basis and sold 10, copies in the United States by January In Canada, "Waiting for Tonight" entered at number 4 before reaching number two for the week of November 29, The music video for "Waiting for Tonight" was filmed in Los Angeles over three days from August , Part of it was shot at the Los Angeles Arboretum.

Speaking of the video's concept, Lopez said: "I wanted it to be fun and have a certain type of energy and he came back with the treatment of the video where it was this millennium party in the jungle.

Just the way he described it, it sounded perfect, the kind of thing I really wanted to do so we just went with it. When casting extras for the music video, Lopez stressed that she wanted those appearing around her to look like "real people". For "Waiting for Tonight", she worked with choreographer Tina Landon, who previously hired Lopez as a backup dancer for Janet Jackson in the early stages of her career.

Landon also made an appearance in the clip as an extra. A second version of the music video featuring the Hex Hector remix of the song was released, later being included on her extended play The Reel Me Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan of The Baltimore Sun stated that it revealed the "death-defying dance stunts" which Lopez undertook, "donning stiletto heels and a micro-mini to perform elaborate footwork on a narrow, 6-foot-high Plexiglas platform while cameras caught her from every possible provocative angle".

The Hex Hector remix version features the same premise of the original clip, while including a variety of different shots, and new scenes of Lopez dancing in a jungle with green lasers flashing behind her. Justin Myers of the Official Charts Company called the video a "chilling reminder of the worldwide fear of the so-called Millennium Bug - Jen looks quite anxious when midnight comes at her very futuristic looking New Year bash, doesn't she? Author Dominic Pettman observed that the music video captured an "orgasmic anticipation" for the new millennium.

Maitri Mehta of Bustle magazine wrote that she was "mesmerized by a vision of a bronze J. Lo gettin' life from those green lasers. In almost all of her music videos, J. Lo is extremely, overtly sexy but that's the point.

And she had all the rhinestones on her face and she just looked like just dewy and stunning and amazing. Monica Herrera of Billboard stated that Adam Lambert's music video for the song "If I Had You" took the "late-night wilderness party motif of Jennifer Lopez's classic 'Waiting for Tonight' clip" and added "more lasers, guy-liner, thrashy dance moves, silver top hats and outrageously spiky shoulder pads".

Tiffany Lee of Yahoo! Pitchfork Media's Lindsay Zoladz stated that English singer FKA twigs' music video for the song "Papi Pacify" features "perhaps the most dazzling use of body glitter in a music video since J. Lo's 'Waiting for Tonight'". Natasha Bird of Elle magazine compared the music video for Zayn Malik's "Like I Would" to "Waiting for Tonight", writing: "with the addition of all the smoke, lasers and gyrating girls in booty shorts, we can't help but think that this video is an excellent tribute to Jennifer Lopez's millennium party single".

Lopez performed "Waiting for Tonight" for the first time on the British music chart television program Top of the Pops, on the episode that aired November 12, on BBC. Lopez performed the song at the 11th Billboard Music Awards on December 8, , where she opened the show. It was used frequently as a celebratory anthem in anticipation for the dawn of the new millennium.

The song also went number one on European radio. The video was widely popular, receiving heavy rotation on MTV and VH1, while its use of lasers and body crystals has influenced a range of subsequent music videos over the years.

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