![]() ![]() That same year, dancehall ensemble, Bad Royale also released a remake of this single. In 2016, American DJ duo, Lost Kings performed a remix version of this tune. In 2017, “Work” received awards for Best Collaboration and R&B Song of the Year at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. It failed to win both awards, losing the former to Adele’s “ Hello” and the latter to “ Stressed Out” by Twenty One Pilots. On their list of 100 Best Pop Songs of 2016, Billboard magazine ranked this track at #26.Īt the 59th edition of the Grammy Awards, this single was honored with nominations for Record of the Year as well as Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. “Work” was named the best song of 2016 by both The Guardian and NME magazines. Notably, are the likes of English singer, Conor Maynard (in 2016), American pop singer, Macy Kate (in 2016), and Australian singer, William Singe (in 2016). ![]() Since it came out, several musicians have released various cover versions of “Work”. This track contains an interpolation of the 1985 classic hit “If You Were Here Tonight”, which was performed by the American R&B artist, Alexander O’Neal. Interpolates Alexander O’Neal’s “If You Were Here Tonight” Unfortunately we couldn’t include both videos here due to their explicit nature. Both videos were released on 22nd February 2016. Swedish director, Tim Erem was responsible for directing the second version of the video clip for “Work”. Experienced Canadian video director, Little X (Director X) directed the first version of this song’s visual. There are actually two official music videos for this track. ![]() Production was done by co-writers Boi-1da and 40 along with Kuk Harrell. Songwriters and ProducersĪs many as eight songwriters (including Rihanna and Drake) worked on this tune. Rihanna released “Work” on 27th January 2016. This dancehall/R&B tune was released as a lead single from her Anti album of 2016. ![]() After leaving Def Jam in 2014 for a spot with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, she took greater creative control for 2016’s ANTI, her most diverse album yet.Rihanna has said that the song truly represents her culture thanks to its dancehall vibe and broken language. The tracks were inescapable-“Umbrella”, “Don’t Stop the Music”, “Rude Boy”, “Work”-but also had genuine personality, not to mention a carnal sense of expressiveness that set her apart: Rihanna’s changes didn’t seem like the product of high-concept self-reinvention so much as gut feeling. By 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad, she’d expanded the sunny Caribbean pop of her early work for sleek hybrids of hip-hop, R&B, club music and rock. Her 2005 debut, Music of the Sun, went Gold when she was just 17. She was making things up as she went along, but when she went, she went full-steam ahead.īorn in Barbados in 1988, she left high school to pursue music. Describing the chameleonic nature of her clothing line, Fenty-the first female-created brand for LVMH, not to mention its first luxury label run by a black woman-Rihanna said the line didn’t have any fixed look, in part because her own was always changing. Though her biggest tracks have tended toward some variety of dance pop (mixed with reggae, EDM, dancehall, R&B and so on), a closer listen reveals an artist willing to try just about anything-and the uncanny grace to sound good doing it. Fast-forward to the present day and there remains something effortless about Rihanna, a sense of confidence that transcends any one narrative or style. Most of all, she had ideas and seemed comfortable expressing them. She took a leading role in group activities. A report card for Robyn Rihanna Fenty, first issued by a school back in Barbados’ Saint Michael parish and later reprinted in a giant coffee-table book called RIHANNA, stated, in part, that the young Fenty was positive, sure of herself. ![]()
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