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Let's work!
Let's not rest. Let's not play. Let's work!
This lost hit was a minor top 40 entry by the legendary Rolling Stones vocalist. You may remember the video with Mick running down a highway along with a huge group of people who appeared to be employed in various occupations. He wrote the song with the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart.
According to one website, Mick came up with the idea for the song when his girlfriend got mad at him because he refused to buy a house for their young daughter. She would have to work and earn it like everyone else.
A YouTube commenter said he was one of the firefighters in the video, but that he always hated the song. Another commenter said he was reminded of the song when his brother-in-law who he hired to do a job decided to just sit there and do nothing. Still another commenter said, "The left would call this song hate speech today." No we wouldn't. We would call it many things, but we wouldn't call it that. It's not like it's Ace Of Base or something.
Also, the surgeons in this video look like they're holding their knives and tools like they're about to kill someone.
If a song and video like this came out now, the entire endeavor would look mighty silly. It was bad enough that offshoring, corporate greed, and cronyism took so many jobs afterward, but now AI has stolen the rest of the jobs. These days, we'd see Mick Jagger being chased by an army of robots laughing at him because his royalty checks are taken to fund Parliament's leather stationery.
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