Loverboy - Working For The Weekend {HD}

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"Working for the Weekend" is a song by Canadian rock band Loverboy from their second studio album Get Lucky (1981). It was written by guitarist Paul Dean, vocalist Mike Reno, and drummer Matt Frenette, and produced by Dean and Bruce Fairbairn, and released as the lead single from the album in October 1981. The song contains more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate success, as the song reached No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 2 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart in the United States in January 1982.
"Working for the Weekend" is ranked No. 100 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s.
The song originated when guitarist Paul Dean was out walking one Wednesday afternoon, looking for inspiration in his songwriting. He noticed that much of the area was deserted, as most people were at work. "So I'm out on the beach and wondering, 'Where is everybody? Well, I guess they're all waiting for the weekend,'" he later said. Mike Reno, the band's vocalist, suggested they change the title to "Working for the Weekend". According to Dean, he first began writing the song in a hotel room following a Montreal concert. At the time, the band were still playing bars to little response from patrons. After completing the song, they used it to open one set, and Dean recalled that "the dance floor was packed."
So that experience spurred that. And Mike had the great idea of, 'Why don't we call it, Working for the Weekend?' and I said, 'Yeah, that's good. That's fine.' Not a huge difference, still works, it's kind of cool, it's quirky with a little bit of a twist on the lyrics, so yeah, let's go."
One of the earliest Loverboy songs, this was their third single, following "Turn Me Loose" and "The Kid Is Hot Tonite." The band was gaining traction but still playing bars when they wrote the song, so they were able to field test it in a live setting. Paul Dean tells us, "We were playing this bar and it was one of these meat market places, and we did two sets and nobody danced, nobody cared. It was just like, 'Oh, my God, are we ever going to reach these people?' And we when came on stage for the third set, we opened with 'Working for the Weekend,' and the dance floor was packed. I went, 'Okay, we might have something here.' We don't have that luxury now. We still play our new tunes, but it's different now. Now that we're established, it's hard to get people to really sit up and take notice on a new song. You can never compare it to a hit that's established in their mind that they've been waiting for six months to hear."
With slick guitars, a New-Wave synth sound and a big hook, this party song got a lot of airplay. The energetic, yet accessible sound combined with lyrics about the nightlife to make an extremely marketable song. It has been used in a variety of movies and TV shows including:
Zoolander during a scene where Derek Zoolander is trying to be a coal miner with his dad and brothers.
Saturday Night Live where Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze audition for The Chippendales.
Scrubs in an audition for an air band.
Other movies the song has appeared in include Ladder 49, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Click.
The song was released in 1981, the same year MTV went on the air. Loverboy is Canadian, and there weren't many outlets for music videos in that country either, so the clip for "Working For The Weekend" didn't have much of a budget. In the book MTV Ruled the World - The Early Years of Music Video, Loverboy lead singer Mike Reno tells about the filming of this video: "We would play the song over and over again, and we'd bounce around like we normally did. Here's what I thought was kind of interesting: The director would say, 'OK, we're going to shoot another song, now go get changed.' 'What do you mean?' 'You have to put on a whole new outfit, and we're going to change the lighting a bit.' But it was the same stage! So basically, we just had to get some other clothes, fix your hair, take a break, and then jump back on stage and do the same thing over and over again. I really felt like I was being abused a bit, but that's the nature of the beast."

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