Working for the Weekend
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| “Working for the Weekend” | ||
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| Single by Loverboy from the album Get Lucky |
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| Released | 1981 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 3:33 | |
"Working for the Weekend" was a song released in 1981 on the rock band Loverboy's second album Get Lucky. The song contained more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate a lot of success, as the song reached #29 on the pop singles charts, and #2 in mainstream rock in the United States in January 1982. [1] The song is considered an Anti-Work Anthem.[citation needed]
[edit] Trivia
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- The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for naming each episode after an 80s hit song, named an episode after this song.
- Was featured in a Saturday Night Live sketch involving Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze auditioning for Chippendales.
- Was featured in the Ben Stiller movie Zoolander as Derek Zoolander is shown in a montage trying desperately to fit in and work well with his father's coal mining crew.
- Was featured in the Adam Sandler movie Click as Terry Crews is shown lip syncing to the song while being stuck in traffic.
- Was featured in a Diet Pepsi commercial where the man in the ad wishes he could have his old van from the 1980s once again.
- Appeared in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, playing on Rock station V-Rock.
- Is played after the Philadelphia Phillies win on Friday nights at home.
- Is one of the '80s tunes that can be heard in the arcade game compilation Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection, for the PS2, Xbox, GameCube and PC.
- Was played by many American radio stations at 5 pm on Friday afternoons to signal the end of the workweek and the beginning of the weekend.
- Appears in the Scrubs episode "My Half-Acre". Todd uses this song when auditioning for lead vocals in the janitor and Ted's air-band.
- In the "King of Queens" episode "Like Hell" Doug goes up to a vending machine and starts singing the chorus to "Working For the Weekend".
- Also was featured in an American Airlines commercial
- Featured in "Herbie: Fully Loaded" as they are working on the car
- Korean rock vocalist Kim Kyung Ho recorded a cover of "Working for the Weekend" on his 8th album; "Unlimited".
[edit] Lyrics
Everyone's watching, to see what you will do
Everyone's looking at you, oh
Everyone's wondering, will you come out tonight
Everyone's trying to get it right, get it right
Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a little romance
Everybody's goin' off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance, oh
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from the start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby lets go
Everyone's looking to see if it was you
Everyone wants you to come through
Everyone's hoping it'll all work out
Everyone's waiting they're holding out
Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a little romance
Everybody's goin' off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance, oh
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby lets go
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby lets go
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby lets go
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