♪ (ragtime music) ♪
♪ (mellow synthpop) ♪
- Rihanna. Gotta be.
- This looks like Beyoncé.
- ♪ Work, work, work, work, work, work ♪ - Rihanna.
- That's, uh, little Rihanna.
- I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know who is singing.
- ♪ So me put in work, work, work, work ♪ - Got my attention.
- ♪ When you ah gon' learn, learn, learn, learn, learn ♪
♪ Meh nuh care if him hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting ♪
- The video's a little provocative.
- She's a terrific-looking girl. I'm not sure why you want
to throw in all those beer bottles and stuff.
- ♪ What can I say? ♪
♪ Please recognize I'm tryin', babe! ♪
♪ I have to work, work ♪
- Oh, girl! - ♪ Work, work, work, work ♪
♪ He said me haffi ♪ - That booty!
- ♪ Work, work, work, work, work, work ♪ - What's she saying?
- "Wah, wah..." I mean, it's just lousy music.
- That's what happens when you smoke and drink too much,
is you can't get one word out right.
- ♪ You need to get done, done, done, done at work ♪
♪ Come over ♪
♪ Don't give that away to no one ♪ - My, my, my.
- ♪ I need you ♪ - Kind of oversexual for my taste.
- I'd rather watch Bieber, I think. That's not saying much.
- ♪ Work, work, work ♪ - I've been going to the wrong clubs.
- That's great foreplay.
- ♪ Work, work, work, work, work, work ♪
♪ Mmmmm, mmmmm ♪
♪ Work, work, work, work, work, work ♪
- Oh, that's a mean video right there.
- I like it. I like it. I like it. (music fades out)
- Loading.
Yeah, they were loading, all right. (chuckles)
♪ (song restarts) ♪
- Same two people?
- I don't know these people. Are they famous?
- Is this the same video?
- ♪ Work, work, work ♪ - It's a different version, okay.
- ♪ Work, work, work ♪ - Go, girl. Go, girl.
- Not wearing much on. Kinda transparent.
- ♪ Work, work, work ♪
- (Victoria) ♪ You can see nipples through my shirt ♪
♪ Yeah, I'm doing this little twerk ♪
- ♪ Dry, me a desert him ♪
♪ What can I say? ♪ - Okay. Enough.
I don't want to see anymore!
- It's like a little too close for comfort there, you know?
I don't know if your mommy wants to see you doing that.
- ♪ You need to get done, done, done, done at work ♪
♪ Come over ♪
♪ We just need to slow the motion ♪ - He's a handsome
young guy too. I like his beard.
Ah. (chuckles)
- Obvious it's got some sort of sexual reference,
but I can't figure out what it is.
- ♪ When you ah gon' learn, learn ♪ - Okay, they working it.
- ♪ Meh nuh care if him hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting ♪
♪ Mmmmm, mmmmm ♪ - Little kissy-wissy. That's okay.
Just... keep it clean.
- I like it. Thumbs up from me. Love it.
- A lot of shaking booties. That's called... twerking?
How about that?
- The question is, what do they do after the video's over?
(chuckles)
(movie reel clicks)
- (Finebros) So did you catch the name
of either artist in the video? - Um...
I saw it there and I didn't.
- Rihanna. I recognized her name.
I didn't recognize the other one's.
- I know Rihanna.
And Drake is new to me, because I'm old.
- I know Rihanna but not Drake.
She did a video with Paul McCartney and Kanye,
and that's how I know her.
- (Finebros) So the video, if you noticed, played the song twice.
They made two music videos in one for the same song.
One was a more normal video.
The other was Rihanna basically just dancing for Drake.
- Which is cool. I like the first one better.
- (Finebros) Do you think that's an interesting concept,
to release a song with two music videos?
- Yeah, I think that's great.
- Even though the song was the same song,
it was different seeing the two different videos.
- They do one that was more the fast-paced party
typical music video.
And then to slow it down to the slow music video,
it's just something different.
- It might be more interesting if they had some real material
other than just muttering the same thing over and over again.
- (Finebros) When watching the video,
were you able to understand what she was singing about?
- No. No, I thought she was just mumbling.
Humming the tune.
- Not so much.
(robotic voice) It kinda had that little robot voice going on,
and it's really difficult to understand that sometimes.
- You really got to see the video
to know what she's talking about.
If you don't really see it, don't make any sense.
- Something about working and...
then there's the show-and-tell part.
- "Work, work, work, work, work."
And she was working it too.
- Working her butt and getting Drake all...
(sighs) interested.
- It didn't really have much to do with the topic of work though.
It looked more like play. Play, play, play, play.
- (Finebros) Can you please impersonate her voice for us?
- (laughs heartily)
♪ Gimme some o' dadadadada ♪
- ♪ Work, work, work, work, work ♪
- ♪ Work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work ♪
- ♪ (mumbling incomprehensibly) ♪
- ♪ (raspy chittering) ♪
- ♪ Meh, you gotta work, work, work, work, work ♪
- ♪ Work, work, work, work, work ♪
♪ I have no idea what she's saying but "work" ♪
- (Finebros) This is far from Rihanna's first hit song.
Since she debuted in 2005, she's had 14 number-one hits,
which places her in the rankings of artists like Michael Jackson,
Elvis, and The Beatles. - Really?
I can't say I rank her up there yet.
- (Finebros) What do you think it is about her
that people seem to gravitate towards again and again?
- Well, she's a sexy girl.
They want to see what she's gonna do next.
- Definitely has a charisma about her, no question about it.
- She's got a great voice. She's a beautiful young woman.
- Gonna point out there are a lot more people on the planet now
than there were when those guys were releasing their music.
You can get to a lot more people more readily these days
via the Internet than you could in those days.
- (Finebros) So this song and a lot of Rihanna's music
is classified in the genre of dancehall. Have you heard of that?
- Mm, no.
- You mean disco?
- Sort of like a new version of disco?
- Dancehall to me is like cowboys or something
or the old-time days.
- No, but I've been going to the wrong one
if that's what they're doing.
- (Finebros) Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican pop music
that originated in the '70s
and was sort of a different style of reggae.
What do you think about the amount of different genres
in music these days? - I think it's the more the merrier.
- You gotta keep coming up with something new, you know?
That's how you get people's attention.
- I like that they're breaking it down.
People are paying more attention
to the specifics of music now than they were.
- It's better today, because there's so many more people
that love certain types. You know, back in the day, we had
blues, jazz, rock, some country. That was it.
- We didn't have all the platforms to get it out there.
That's why when you did have a huge artist come along
like Elvis or The Beatles
that were different, it was a big deal back then,
'cause it didn't come that often. It wasn't as accessible.
- (Finebros) And finally, after listening to the song
and watching the video, is Rihanna an artist that you would think
is good to represent today's generation or not?
- Oh, that's a very good question.
For the people that I know in that generation, no.
- Yes, I'm sure she's a fabulous representative
to a wide swatch of the demographic.
I have no clue what that might be.
- She does actually represent a lot of today's generation.
She seems to have that kind of personality
and the kind of music that's nice and fun.
- Most definitely. Well, actually, she represents--
she can represent us old folks too, 'cause I like her.
- Well, I don't know what represents today's generation.
Art is moving in many different directions.
It's amazing how some people can just pop to the top.
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- Thanks for watching, and I've got to get back
to work, work, work, work, work.
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