Don’t Get Sentimental

So Dave recently posted on the song “Working for the Weekend,” by international pop sensation Loverboy. First thing that came to mind: Scrubs. Check this out:

First of all, I wish I could dance like Turk. Sadly, I cannot. Back to my association with Dave’s song, as you can see in the video, “Working for the Weekend” is followed by “Poison” by Bell Biv DeVoe. And it’s an awesome song.

That’s some great early 90’s R&B (new jack swing if you want to get technical) if I do say so myself. The vocal sample that can be heard throughout “Poison” by Bell Biv DeVoe is sampled from the song “Poison” by Kool G Rap. The sample is one of Kool G Rap exclaiming the word “poison,” which is taken from the opening line of his song.

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I have a compulsion.  An unhealthy, OCD-style disease of the brain that I fight every day, tooth and nail, to suppress.  I’ll be sitting at my desk, working, and I’ll receive an IM from a friend: “Hey, how’s work?”

Then, from a deep, dark place in my brain that I have tried my hardest to eliminate, I hear the wail of an 80s guitar, and from the bottomless abyss of my soul, lyrics float to the surface of my consciousness:

“Everybody’s workin’ for the weekennnnnnnnnd”

I fucking hate this song. I didn’t even know who Loverboy was until I tried to find the song on youtube.  It is the bane of my existence, and virtually everytime somebody asks me how work is, this goddamn song pops into my head.  And worst of all, I’m fairly certain that I am in fact working for the weekend.

So, in an effort to exorcise my Loverboy demon, I’m posting the video for all of you.  Even if I can’t get it out of my head, at least I can infect the rest of you.

P.S. God what a bunch of assholes:

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