Rihanna
“Work” (DJDS remix)
Digital Single
Samo Sound Boy and Jerome LOL don’t remix songs; they completely reimagine songs, finding their hearts and sucking every ounce of emotion out of them. Their best remixes are the ones where that core is the hardest to find, as it is with Rihanna’s flat, lifeless recent single, “Work.” At first, I was skeptical that they’d be able to find any magic in there, but after about 30 seconds, I realized that I was wrong. Pitting a couple of repeated vocal snippets over step-wise piano chords, DJDS turn “Work” into the kind of ecstatic house(ish) anthem that they built their name on.
