THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

495-Jax Jones featuring Mike Dunn and MNEK-House Work.

2016-Number 85 single.

Best Bit-At 1.18. This House Work is most definitely not a chore.

Jax Jones is the stage name of Timucin Fabian Kwong Wah Ozluer, who was born on July 25th, 1987, in London, England, United Kingdom, his father is Turkish, and his mother is Chinese-Malaysian. Jax Jones showed an interest in music from a young age, initially studying classical guitar, and listening to artists such as the Notorious B.I.G. (1972-1997) (see also best songs 955 and 307) The Neptunes, and Timberland (see also best songs 691.) Prior to his mainstream breakthrough, he worked on some of the early ‘mixtapes’ released by the British ‘Grime’ artist Big Narstie. It was after meeting the English music producer Duke Dumont (see also best songs 779) in 2014 that Jax Jones got into ‘House Music,’ and together they co-wrote and produced ‘I Got U,’ (2014-UK-Number 1) ‘Won’t Look Back,’ (2014-UK-Number 2) and ‘Ocean Drive,’ (2015-UK-Number 42.)

The discography of Jax Jones includes one studio Album, ‘Snacks (Supersize’) released in 2019, and 29 singles released between 2013-2024, there are also three extended plays (EP’s) available. As the lead artist he has had 15 top 40 hit singles in the UK, with each one of them having at least one featured artist appearing, with ‘You Don’t Know Me’ featuring Raye, from 2016, charting the highest at Number 3, he has also had a UK Number 1 single as the featured artist on ‘I Got U,’ by Duke Dumont, in 2014. Jax Jones also has several remixes, production, and songwriting credits, for other artists.

‘House Work’ was co-written by Jax Jones, and MNEK, and features the vocals of both MNEK, and Mike Dunn, with the production being by Jax Jones. The song is one of the tracks that appears on Jax Jones’ debut extended play ‘Snacks,’ from November 2018, and later also appears on his debut studio Album ‘Snacks (Supersize’) from September 2019. In an innovative piece of advertising by ‘Polydor Records,’ every time a new single by Jax Jones was released, it would be added to the ‘Snacks’ EP. Stephen Hallowes the head of marketing at the label explained, ‘The main purpose was to create one destination for fans to listen to all of Jax’s hits, but it also enabled us to start building an Album story with him over time, which felt like a good strategy for an artist much stronger in the singles market than Albums. Jax Jones has said that he did not anticipate releasing an Album, ‘Because I don’t sing my music, some people might only be a fan of one or two of my songs. It is so exciting to have an Album with all my hits and new songs in one place. When you work with the names I did on the Album, it makes you bring your A-game.’ The Album ‘Snacks (Supersize’) has spent over 100 weeks in the UK top 100 Album chart, selling in excess of 100,000 copies, and peaking at Number 9.

The other co-writer of ‘House Work’ is MNEK, who was born Uzoechi Osisioma Emenike, on November 9th, 1994, in Lewisham, London, England, his stage name ‘MNEK’ is a gramogran of his surname. He is a singer, songwriter, and music producer, in the genres of ‘Pop, ‘House Music,’ ‘UK Garage,’ and ‘R&B.’ ‘MNEK’ has spoken about his introduction into music, ‘I started writing poems and writing songs around the age of 8 or 7, and I started playing around with production software from really young as well. I then put some stuff up on Myspace finally when I was 14. There were two songs I had. I sent them out to all my favourite artists on Myspace and it just landed on this artist at the time called CocknBullKid, but she’s now Anita Blay, and she’s an amazing songwriter. She was like ‘Okay, cool. I’m just gonna send this to my publisher,’ and at the time I had no idea what a publisher was. So she sent it, and that was that and it became this flurry of people wanting to be my publisher, and then that was me in the industry.’

MNEK has an extensive discography, and production discography, which includes his one studio Album ‘Language’ from 2018, and 22 singles released as the lead artist between 2011-2023, and a further 12 as a featured artist between 2014-2022. In the UK, he has charted on seven top 40 singles, with ‘Head & Heart,’ by Joel Corry, featuring MNEK, reaching Number 1 in 2020, while his only entry to date on the American Billboard Hot 100 singles chart is ‘Never Forget You,’ with Zara Larsson, which made Number 13 in 2015. His production work includes 47 UK top hit singles, with three of those tracks reaching the Number 1 position.

Some of the vocals on ‘House Work’ are provided by Mike Dunn, who is a ‘Rapper,’ and ‘House Music’ producer, who hails from Englewood, Chicago, United States. He is a leading light in the genre of ‘Hip-House,’ (see also best songs 805) which is the gelling together of ‘Rapping’ over a ‘House Music’ track. Mike Dunn can be heard to great effect doing this on his 1994 song ‘God Made Me Phunky.’

‘I call it house work (Woop) ’cause it’s light work (What you, what you gon’ do?) I’ma throw shapes, feeling the bass, ’til my feet hurt. I call it house work (Woop) ’cause it’s light work (What you, what you gon’ do?) I’ma throw shade, if I don’t get paid for this housework.’