Work It

Six Degrees of Dylan - Audio Episodes · Nov 3, 2026 · 7m · transcript

Missy Elliott’s Work It begins a journey through the power of a repeated phrase. Colin follows a sample into Run-D.M.C.’s Peter Piper, crosses into rock with Walk This Way, and compares two strikingly different performances of Baby, Please Don’t Go by Aerosmith and Them. Along the way, turntables, guitars and voices change the pressure around familiar words, before Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone turns the final plea into an unsettling question.

Listen to the six-song Spotify playlist

Pause the episode at each listening invitation to hear the songs separately, then return for the next…