{"id":792940,"date":"2019-02-11T09:06:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=792349"},"modified":"2019-02-11T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:06:37","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-sarah-potenza-i-work-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-sarah-potenza-i-work-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Sarah Potenza, \u2018I Work for Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/untitled-63-of-2197-copy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sarah-potenza\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sarah-potenza\" data-tag=\"sarah-potenza\">Sarah Potenza<\/a>\u2019s songs may be universal anthems written with inclusivity in mind, but on the lead track off her upcoming album <em>Road to Rome<\/em>, she puts the spotlight squarely on herself. \u201cI Work for Me\u201d is a vibrant and danceable soul song brimming with confidence and boasting production that calls to mind the Mark Ronson vibe of Amy Winehouse\u2019s <em>Back to Black<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey told me I was nothing\/They told me I was trash\/They told me I was too young\/To ever make it last,\u201d Potenza sings, laying out all the roadblocks and doubt placed in her way by the smaller-minded. But as she proudly lets them know, she owns her shit: \u201cWhen the bills roll in, I T-C-B\/I got everything \u2019cause I work for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a contestant on the eighth season of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-voice\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-voice\" data-tag=\"the-voice\">The Voice<\/a><\/em> in 2015, Potenza turned heads with her larger-than-life voice, which, while at the forefront of \u201cI Work for Me,\u201d shares space with an equally outsized attitude.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2vty73EQfFw?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important for the music to reflect the intent and attitude of the message, right down to the rhythm of the lyrics. My swag and attitude are the hook, and the music has to be a part of that game,\u201d says Potenza, whose game is elevated by the background vocal stylings of powerhouse Tonya Boyd-Cannon. \u201cI don\u2019t like subtle,\u201d she adds. \u201cIt\u2019s not what I am drawn towards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first song that Potenza wrote for <em>Road to Rome<\/em>, with Justin Wiseman, \u201cI Work for Me\u201d takes its inspiration, at least in part, from a scene in <em>Pretty Woman<\/em>. \u201cThat one where Julia Roberts goes back to the store and says, \u2018Do you work on commission? Big mistake,&#8217;\u201d recalls Potenza. \u201cThat feeling, that attitude, is what shaped the rest of the musical choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Road to Rome<\/em>, produced by Jordan Brooke Hamlin, arrives March 8th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sarah-potenza-i-work-for-me-song-792349\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Potenza\u2019s songs may be universal anthems written with inclusivity in mind, but on the lead track off her upcoming album Road to Rome, she puts the spotlight squarely on herself. \u201cI Work for Me\u201d is a vibrant and danceable soul song brimming with confidence and boasting production that calls to mind the Mark Ronson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:26:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}