Amerie: Gotta Work video

This is still my favourite song of the year so far. You can tell Amerie has been studying her classic soul - Gotta Work has echoes of the Isley Brothers, Aretha Franklin and the best bits of Motown. And, boy, can she sing.

The video is your bog-standard R&B affair - a woman in hotpants, some faintly aggressive dancing, slow-motion hair flicking - but it has a few excellent moments involving a chair and a man banging a dustbin. Nice sunglasses, too.

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