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described "You Haven't Done Nothin'" as being "exceptionally powerful" and more subtle than most protest songs, particularly praising the
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called it "a message song to end them all" in which Wonder "deals directly with those who'd only promise their way to a better world."
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hit. It also reached Number 1 in Canada. In the UK the single spent five weeks on the
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The song was one of his angriest political statements and was aimed directly at
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called it a "super track filled with the memories of the great '
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Index


Single
Stevie Wonder
Fulfillingness' First Finale
B-side
August 7, 1974
Genre
Funk rock
Label
Tamla Motown
Songwriter(s)
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
He's Misstra Know-It-All
Boogie On Reggae Woman
"You Haven't Done Nothin'"
funk
Stevie Wonder
Fulfillingness' First Finale
the Jackson 5
soul
chart
President
Richard Nixon
clavinet
drum machine
Talking Book
Billboard
synthesiser
Cash Box

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