9 to 5

RCA, under Sony. A joke with a true bill inside it.

RCA released it. Sony owns RCA. The cup of ambition is a joke until you have had the job. Then it is a description of a day that begins before you are awake and ends with someone else taking the credit.

Laugh, and then notice who in the house, or the shop, is the one the song is about.

The eight

Industry
7/10
The typewriter percussion is a job, done with wit.
Household
5/10
A worker who wants a life after the shift. The house is what the job is eating.
Piety
3/10
No reverence for the office. The person is the point.
Courage
7/10
She says the skim out loud, in a cheerful key.
Republic
8/10
A wage, a boss, a cup of ambition. That is a civic song.
Temperance
6/10
The anger is aimed, not sprayed.
Truth
8/10
The credit-taking is described exactly.
Stewardship
7/10
A song for the person who makes the place run and is not named.

Live historicallyThank the person who did the uncredited work this week. Do it in front of the others.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 2016

Provident · Sony Music Entertainment

Chain Breaker

Provident, under Sony. The claim is that a captive can be gotten out.

Provident released it. Provident is Sony's Christian group. The record is aimed at the person who has decided the habit, or the debt, or the shame, is the rest of their life. It says that is not the last sentence.

A house can sing that without turning it into a slogan. If you play it, be ready to be the practical help, not only the chorus.

The eight

Industry
6/10
A chorus a room of ordinary voices can carry.
Household
6/10
It is sung at people who have a house and cannot breathe in it.
Piety
8/10
Rescue, named as someone's work, not as a mood.
Courage
7/10
It asks the listener to believe the door is real.
Republic
5/10
A church, which is a public, aimed at the stuck.
Temperance
6/10
Hope, not a spree.
Truth
6/10
The chains are not shrugged off as imaginary.
Stewardship
7/10
A song you can give a person who is ashamed.

Live historicallyPlay it for someone who is stuck, and then do one concrete thing the song itself cannot do for them.