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A Little Work

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341:. Deemed a short film, it begins showing scenes of the singer battling her demons in a padded room and in a straitjacket as Fergie herself narrates how she often felt watched and how difficult it was leaving in constant fear due to drug abuse. It was then that she saw an empty church on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, and in fear of her own demons, tried to hide through the different aisles and started praying. As Fergie continues to share her story, the video also shows visions of soldiers in war before she embraces one, who wears her surname - Ferguson - on his name badge, as a kind of homage to her late grandfather, whom she calls her "guardian angel", and then flashbacks of his funeral, as she believes he was the one that guided her in the right direction. At the ending, Fergie is shown walking out of the church, holding hands with her son Axl as she realizes that she needed to honor herself, and she still works on it even today. 1194: 379:, Fergie spoke of its conception: "It was very interesting, the idea of wanting to play that out in the cinema – and not only that, but make it larger than life, make it grand." On October 30, 2017, right before the song got serviced to radios, a short edit of the video running over 3 minutes long was uploaded to online outlets. 369:
Jonas found this church that was going to be torn down very soon, and all this amazing graffiti that was on there Part of that whole song is just a battle in your mind about overcoming negativity and anything that’s in your way, and just powering through that and finding your tools to overcome that,
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back in 2012 when talking about her previous addiction issues. "I got into a scene. I started going out and taking ecstasy. From ecstasy, it went to crystal meth. With any drugs, everything is great at the beginning, and then slowly your life starts to spiral down." She described her worst moment as
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The idea to dramatize Fergie's previous experience with addiction came after Ă…kerlund conducted an in-depth conversation with the singer about her life in her own home, footage which was also used in the final cut. In an interview for
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teams were waiting for her outside. When she emerged from the building and discovered drugs were playing tricks on her and she had imagined the whole thing, she finally decided to quit it for good. To
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whatever they may be. And being in that church, there was a presence and it was thick. It was a moment, for sure.
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The complete video for "A Little Work" runs for over 11 minutes and was directed by
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on November 26 during the evening gown competition. The song was later performed on
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It enlights a specific situation in the singer's life she once narrated to
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on October 30. She additionally performed the song on
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Index


Single
Fergie
Double Dutchess
Genre
Pop rock
electropop
R&B
Label
Retrofuture
BMG
Songwriter(s)
Fergie Duhamel
Lukasz Gottwald
Theron Thomas
Timothy Thomas
Henry Walter
Producer(s)
Cirkut
Fergie
"A Little Work [Short Film]"
YouTube
"A Little Work [Video Cut]"
YouTube
Fergie
Double Dutchess
BMG Rights Management
Jonas Ă…kerlund
The Today Show
The Talk

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