Waiting Game (Banks song)

Although it was never released as a single, the song was featured in a Victoria's Secret commercial in December 2013, and in January 2014, it charted at number 99 on the UK Singles Chart. In July 2014, English girl group Neon Jungle released a cover version of the song on their album Welcome to the Jungle without Banks' knowledge. In response, Banks posted a statement on her Facebook page, explaining she was "shocked" to see the song on their album, describing the song as "my own heartbeats" and having been "born from my real life, my real heartache, my real fingertips when I was at one of the most confusing times in my life". The song would later appear on her debut studio album, Goddess, released in September 2014. ==Release and promotion==

Banks performed "Waiting Game" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on August 7, 2014, along with single "Beggin for Thread", making her television debut. It would later be featured in the television shows Reckless (season 1, episode 7), ''Grey's Anatomy (season 11, episode 3), Mistresses (season 3, episode 1), Power (season 1, episode 7), and The Originals (season 1, episode 4), as well as on the deluxe edition of the soundtrack to the 2014 film Divergent''. ==Critical reception==

The Guardian described the song as "essentially, a young-adult novel|[young-adult] novel distilled in song [which] throbs with yearning and lust over evocative drums and static". ==Music video==

The music video for "Waiting Game" was directed by Francesco Carrozzini and premiered on August 27, 2013. ==Credits and personnel==

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Goddess. Recording • Engineered and mixed at Lion Aboard, London • Mastered at Infrasonic Sound, Los Angeles • Published by Warner Chappell Music / Kobalt Songs Music Publishing obo Red Lines Music/Prescription Songs (ASCAP) Personnel • Banks – vocals • Sohn – production, mixing • Daniel Moyler – engineering • Pete Lyman – mastering ==Charts==