Kelly Clarkson effortlessly brought back disco by covering Donna Summer‘s hit “She Works Hard for the Money” for her talk show’s latest “Kellyoke” segment on Friday (Nov. 6).
The song perfectly fit the theme of the hour, “Restaurant Resurgence: Salute to Servers,” since Summer reportedly found inspiration for the song when she met a hardworking waitress named Onetta at the West Hollywood restaurant Chasen’s.
According to LAist, “She went to the bathroom and saw the attendant taking a nap with a small TV on. Donna startled the woman from her nap, and the woman told Donna she worked 2 jobs and was really tired. Donna thought to herself, ‘Wow, she really works hard for her money.'” Summer wrote the song in about 20 minutes that same night. She even mentions the waitress by name in the…
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