Kelly Rowland - Work (Freemasons Remix) - Single Review

Work is the single where Kelly Rowland finally steps out from the shadow of Beyonce Knowles’ formidable ass and stands on her own. Well, almost. The BBC Chartblog has taken the time to compare the original version versus the Freemasons’ remix.

Needless to say, the the Freemasons version of Work is far superior. But where other people are hearing an ethnic-influenced riff, I can only hear a variation on the Knight Rider theme. That’s not a bad thing, just an observation - the Knight Rider theme has been used successfully in pop music before.

Anyway, Work sees a more mature, self confident and sexual Kelly Rowland. There’s suggestive lyrics about putting things in, whatever that means *blush*.

With this latest single, you can see Kelly amassing her own catalogue of hit singles - including Dilemma with Nelly and Like This with Eve. If I have one criticism of Work, it’s that her vocal phrasing is more than a little like Beyonce - maybe she needs to work on distinguishing herself in that respect.

All the same, the Freemasons have turned this into a fantastic floor-filler, at the same time as Kelly’s image is morphing from clean-cut to sexy babe. Needless to say, I approve!

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