Talk:9 to 5 (Sheena Easton song)

The song is about a woman who waits at home all day for her man to come home from work.
The local grocery store has this on their Muzak system. Every time I hear it, I keep thinking "gold digger". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.58.64.64 (talk) 04:41, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

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in popular culture
Apparently, unlike many other articles about songs, this one cannot have a section about its impact in popular culture. These two independely crafted edits were removed by a keen watcher:

"The song was used for a montage in The Bizarro Jerry episode of Seinfeld (Season 8, Episode 3) in which Kramer starts working for free at Brandt-Leland, even though he has no business training or experience. It is used again for another montage in The Voice (Seinfeld episode) episode (Season 9, Episode 2) when George pretends to be handicapped while working at PlayNow Corp."

and

"9 to 5 is the background music for scenes in two Seinfeld episodes: “The Butter Shave”, accompanying George as he pretends to be handicapped at work, and “The Bizarro Jerry”, accompanying Kramer’s commute to his pretend job."

It should be noted, in terms of notability, that this British song predates Seinfeld, an U.S. series, by more than a decade — attesting its own continued relevance, while Seinfeld’s own status as a popular culture icon cannot be overstated. Yet, this cannot be added to the article, as neither can other such uses of the song in episodes of South Park and Drawn Together.

Why was all this removed from the article while a reference to the relatively minor John Peel's Record Box documentary was kept is a mystery to me. As it is, this construes the notion that references to this song in popular culture are few and insignificant — a disservice to the readers and to Ms. Easton.

Tuvalkin (talk) 20:08, 10 June 2019 (UTC)


 * You are confusing an indiscriminate list of uses in popular culture for a sourced discussion explaining the subject's impact on popular culture.


 * Of the 8,603 appearances of Richard Nixon in popular culture (including several Academy Award winning films, Tony winning plays, Grammy winning songs and albums, Emmy winning TV shows, various knock-knock jokes, statues, comedy show skits, an opera and a disembodied head in the year 3000, none of them are listed in Richard Nixon. No reliable sources that I am aware of discuss how "Ohio", Madman Across the Water. All the President's Men (the book or the film), Dick, Nixon in China or Nixon's head significantly impacted Nixon (the man or the topic).


 * As a counter-example, Gerald Ford has a sourced discussion of Chevy Chase's impression of Ford in skits on Saturday Night Live. It discusses the impression's impact on Ford and is sourced to the New York Times. Ford thought it significantly impacted his reelection campaign.


 * Yes, the song has been used is some TV shows, movies, etc. Adding two of them here (with an off-topic discussion of the show's plot) is an indiscriminate list of two of them. A comprehensive list of all such uses would be neither possible nor encyclopedic. A randomly selected list of some of those uses is not encyclopedic. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 21:21, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Single sleeves photos
Why is the US sleeve the main pic with the UK sleeve listed as "alternative cover art"? Since it was written by a British songwriter, sung by a British singer, and first released in the UK, shouldn't the US sleeve be the "alternative"? User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 10:50, 18 August 2022 (UTC)