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”What Is Love” is a 1993 dance track by the singer Haddaway, popular with club DJs. Recorded in the early ’90s, it later experienced a revival as the song from the Saturday Night Live “Roxbury Guys” sketches, which were later made into the 1998 feature film A Night at the Roxbury. The song was also featured as the background music for the previous night’s NBA highlights on NBC’s NBA Showtime in the mid-to-late ’90s. The music video featured clips from Metropolis. Since 1994, it has been played prior to the opening pitch of every Tulane Green Wave home baseball game. The song peaked at #2 in the United Kingdom and Germany, but it reached #1 in thirteen other countries, all of them European or Asian. In the United States the song reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #12 in Australia. Haddaway’s song was sampled by Atlanta crunk/hip-hop group Crime Mob on a song also called “What Is Love”. The track was leaked to the Internet in late 2006, and appeared on their second album Hated On Mostly, released March 2007. In June 2007, José Galisteo recorded it on his debut album, Remember. The song was also given an industrial makeover by the band The MDP. In 2006, Leningrad Cowboys recorded a hard rock cover of the song on their album, Zombies Paradise. The song has also been covered by The Gossip, with lead singer Beth Ditto changing the lyrics to “When Is Lunch?, Baby I’m Hungry”. Most recently, Irish shoegaze band Razor Stilettos covered the song at their gig supporting The …