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Digital Spy said of the video: "Adopting the classic girlband-in-a-warehouse theme, the ladies strut their stuff down a makeshift catwalk, tease the camera seductively and even attempt a few risqué dance moves. This video won't set the world alight with its dazzling originality, but it nicely
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on 13 June 2009 solely on digital downloads and it went on to peak at number twenty-two, making it their lowest-charting single at the time, as well as their first to miss the top ten and the top twenty altogether. It also charted at number 21 on the
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in black outfits, apart from Vanessa. Within the warehouse the group dances and walks provocatively on a catwalk. Each group member is dressed in a black outfit, except White, who is dressed in a pink
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remix of the song. The video for this version of the song is exactly the same but features streaks of colour which have been digitally super-imposed upon the original imagery.
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Before the release of "Work", the music video recorded and was directed by JT, on 16 May 2009. The video was set at
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Commercially, "Work" failed to gain the success of the band's four previous singles. It charted at number 22 on the
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opens the song and sings the first verse, the first bridge and a backing vocal during the second bridge.
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The video opens with a little girl walking around an abandoned warehouse, where there are posters of
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wrote that "tracks like 'Work'...can be skipped in an instant and have 'filler' written all over."
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documentary following the making of the video. Some music channels have also been showing the
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sings the second verse, leads the chorus, adlibs on the final chorus and closes the song.
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sings the second bridge and small adlib between the final chorus and the end of the song.
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sings backing vocals during the first bridge and adlibs in the final chorus.
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described the track as "muscular dance-pop" and compared it to the music of
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release coincided with the group's first series of headline gigs,
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sings the third bridge and does adlibs in the final chorus.
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An accompanying music video was filmed on 16 May 2009 at
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complements a real thumper of a song." Jon O'Brien of
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Index


Single
The Saturdays
Chasing Lights
B-side
Genre
Dance-pop
Label
Fascination
Polydor
Songwriter(s)
Ina Wroldsen
Producer(s)
The Saturdays
Just Can't Get Enough
Forever Is Over
"Work"
YouTube
The Saturdays
Chasing Lights
Ina Wroldsen
Shepperton Studios
The Work Tour
UK Singles Chart
Irish Singles Chart
European Hot 100 Singles
What Are You Waiting For?
Phil Tan
Issues
Comic Relief single

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