Work from Home (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) - Single
Epic / Syco
Release date: February 26, 2016 (Single / Music Video)
By Vimal Esvaren
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What do you do when a more popular artist i.e. the Caribbean Queen drops a single with the same name as yours weeks ahead of your planned release? Well you add two words at the back and make it sound weird of course!
American girl group Fifty Harmony released their R&B jam 'Work From Home' hot on the heels of Rihanna's 'Work' and we must say the new emvee is just as steamy as Rih's. Set in a construction site where one could assume the girls attempt to build a 'home' for them to work from, the video pans through the various processes involved in assembling a structure with each girl helming one of them. Peppered throughout the video are also hot construction workers to turn up the heat.
Coming back to Rih's Work, thankfully the two tracks are significantly different enough from each other for the R&B Princess' track to overshadow 5H. That said, and I understand where the record label and the singers were coming from, I do not think Fifth Harmony should have changed the name of their single. Both singles could have had the same name and 5H could actually have benefited from the hype it would have generated. Now what's left for them is just an odd song title. Hey have you heard the new song 'Work From Home', said no one ever.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars.