Music Review: Nelly & Justin Timberlake "Work It"
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Work It
Album: Nellyville
Year: 2003
Nelly lures a woman, a talented dancer, to swerve her hips for him in the relishable "Work It."
After opening with a flashy keyboard, Nelly is ready to start the single. "Let's go, oh."
Justin Timberlake joins in the for chorus as Nelly adlibs. Nelly's parts are indicated with parantheses. Timberlake asks her to show some cleavage and to be mysterious. He's only interested in watching her dance. "Baby show something/Don't say nothing (Don't you say a word)/I just want to/See you work it (Come on baby work it for me)/That ain't frontin'
Show me something (Let me see it girl)/I just try to/See you work it (I just wanna see you work it for me.")
At the club, he hears a woman in conversation across the room. But when he looks, she stops and becomes shy. He wonders why she's being modest. He encourages her to be racy and rambontious. He asks her to dip her back and roll her hips. She, however, does not take kindly to a strange guy wanting to ogle her. She inquires as to why he needs her to dance for him, etc. He's taken aback and thinks she's being condescending. Nonetheless, he keeps on hitting on her. His perfect night would be going over to her apartment and then lets his imagination wander. He once again tells her to perform his favorite moves of hers. Since his lines aren't working, he decides to try another tactic: flash his diamond watch. "I heard her talking loud/But she ain't saying nothing/What up with all the frontin'/Come on and show me something/You know you wanna do it/Go ahead yo man ain't coming/Please do that thing/When you dippin'/Keep yo hips poppin'/What's up with all these questions...You talking to me/Like you talking to an adolescent..Her place/Freaky beats/And so on so on/Let you waist pop...I rather watch/To the top of snow clock/Can't even tell the time/But you know it's mine/What time is ma/It's 20 karats/After nine..."
In the second verse, he begins it the same way as the first. She's outgoing about her dancing but yet is still an introvert. He notices she's by the bar. He goes up to her and tells her to request a song. He whines since he can't leer at her butt in her tight jeans. Next, he describes her: she's of average height with chocolate brown eyes. She's wearing stilletos. "She still talking loud/But she ain't saying nothing/Why you ain't moving ma/DJ ain't playing nothing/You tell him to/Play this herre/Until these speakers blow...She showing no back..She 5'5/Brown Eyes/
In stilleto letto (Baby)."
Towards the end of the verse, Timberlake joins in once again. Timberlake's parts are in bold. Nelly wonders if she's single or has a lot of boyfriends. He tells her that even if she does have a boyfriend, it's not a problem. He's juggling two girlfriends. He welcomes her to hang out with them. "Well did you come alone/Or you got 2 or 3/That ain't no thang/Baby girl 'cause/I got two with me/And we gon/All kick it/And you about to see/Just what a day would be/If you were in the ride with me/ Turning on the headlights /And we be/ Running all the red lights /Those fool steal my head/And ain't no stopping now/Now come on herre and drop/'Cause he gon tell why."
In the third and final verse, he does the standard shout to all women throughout the every time zone in the United States. He repeats the first verse's opening phrase again. But this time he's close enough to know the shade of her thong. Her dancing has put her in a trance, which he uses to reference Notorious B.I.G.'s hit "Hypnotize." The woman has succumbed to Nelly and going home with him. "Now all my Midwest shorties/Come on do that thang/Dance with me..And all my guy south shorties/Come on do that thang...And all my East Coast shorties/Come on do that thang/Dance with Me...And all my West Coast shorties/Come on do that thang...Come On Come On Come On/She still talking loud/But I herre her better now/She keep a thong print on/In any weather now...She got me hypnotize/Just like that Biggie guy/'Cause she been/Trying to prove her point/Since we been inside/So we can get it on/
Just wait to we get home..."
The chorus is sung once. An instrumental of the chorus with Timberlake singing "I just want to see you to work it" one more time to close the single.
The surprisingly good "Work It" is for people who don't like rap but prefer an entertaining beat. However, the single is not without its faults. The phrases are overused. Also, it seems like it was tailored made for Timberlake but Nelly picked it up instead. Timberlake is the main feature here, not Nelly. Nelly is a guest in his own song as Timberlake takes it over, note by note.
Album: Nellyville
Year: 2003
Nelly lures a woman, a talented dancer, to swerve her hips for him in the relishable "Work It."
After opening with a flashy keyboard, Nelly is ready to start the single. "Let's go, oh."
Justin Timberlake joins in the for chorus as Nelly adlibs. Nelly's parts are indicated with parantheses. Timberlake asks her to show some cleavage and to be mysterious. He's only interested in watching her dance. "Baby show something/Don't say nothing (Don't you say a word)/I just want to/See you work it (Come on baby work it for me)/That ain't frontin'
Show me something (Let me see it girl)/I just try to/See you work it (I just wanna see you work it for me.")
At the club, he hears a woman in conversation across the room. But when he looks, she stops and becomes shy. He wonders why she's being modest. He encourages her to be racy and rambontious. He asks her to dip her back and roll her hips. She, however, does not take kindly to a strange guy wanting to ogle her. She inquires as to why he needs her to dance for him, etc. He's taken aback and thinks she's being condescending. Nonetheless, he keeps on hitting on her. His perfect night would be going over to her apartment and then lets his imagination wander. He once again tells her to perform his favorite moves of hers. Since his lines aren't working, he decides to try another tactic: flash his diamond watch. "I heard her talking loud/But she ain't saying nothing/What up with all the frontin'/Come on and show me something/You know you wanna do it/Go ahead yo man ain't coming/Please do that thing/When you dippin'/Keep yo hips poppin'/What's up with all these questions...You talking to me/Like you talking to an adolescent..Her place/Freaky beats/And so on so on/Let you waist pop...I rather watch/To the top of snow clock/Can't even tell the time/But you know it's mine/What time is ma/It's 20 karats/After nine..."
In the second verse, he begins it the same way as the first. She's outgoing about her dancing but yet is still an introvert. He notices she's by the bar. He goes up to her and tells her to request a song. He whines since he can't leer at her butt in her tight jeans. Next, he describes her: she's of average height with chocolate brown eyes. She's wearing stilletos. "She still talking loud/But she ain't saying nothing/Why you ain't moving ma/DJ ain't playing nothing/You tell him to/Play this herre/Until these speakers blow...She showing no back..She 5'5/Brown Eyes/
In stilleto letto (Baby)."
Towards the end of the verse, Timberlake joins in once again. Timberlake's parts are in bold. Nelly wonders if she's single or has a lot of boyfriends. He tells her that even if she does have a boyfriend, it's not a problem. He's juggling two girlfriends. He welcomes her to hang out with them. "Well did you come alone/Or you got 2 or 3/That ain't no thang/Baby girl 'cause/I got two with me/And we gon/All kick it/And you about to see/Just what a day would be/If you were in the ride with me/ Turning on the headlights /And we be/ Running all the red lights /Those fool steal my head/And ain't no stopping now/Now come on herre and drop/'Cause he gon tell why."
In the third and final verse, he does the standard shout to all women throughout the every time zone in the United States. He repeats the first verse's opening phrase again. But this time he's close enough to know the shade of her thong. Her dancing has put her in a trance, which he uses to reference Notorious B.I.G.'s hit "Hypnotize." The woman has succumbed to Nelly and going home with him. "Now all my Midwest shorties/Come on do that thang/Dance with me..And all my guy south shorties/Come on do that thang...And all my East Coast shorties/Come on do that thang/Dance with Me...And all my West Coast shorties/Come on do that thang...Come On Come On Come On/She still talking loud/But I herre her better now/She keep a thong print on/In any weather now...She got me hypnotize/Just like that Biggie guy/'Cause she been/Trying to prove her point/Since we been inside/So we can get it on/
Just wait to we get home..."
The chorus is sung once. An instrumental of the chorus with Timberlake singing "I just want to see you to work it" one more time to close the single.
The surprisingly good "Work It" is for people who don't like rap but prefer an entertaining beat. However, the single is not without its faults. The phrases are overused. Also, it seems like it was tailored made for Timberlake but Nelly picked it up instead. Timberlake is the main feature here, not Nelly. Nelly is a guest in his own song as Timberlake takes it over, note by note.