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"Shake It Off" is a mid-tempo R&B song with a pop and hip hop backbeat and a "thumping", sparse production. [8] Written and produced by Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox and Johntá Austin, the song drew comparisons to several productions from Usher's 2004 album, Confessions.
While saying that "Shake It Off" was not one of the album's better songs, Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone applauded it for "serving as a trailer to announce her daring Eighties synth-pop makeover". [45] Nate Jones from Vulture agreed, but described the song's bridge as "the worst 24 seconds of the entire album". [26]
Why, to shake them off, of course. On the songwriting front, Swift compared “Shake It Off” to 2010’s “ Mean ” – but noted she had a different, much more mature outlook thanks to the ...
I gotta shake this off." [32] Editor Jon Pareles from The New York Times felt that the album follows a formula that was most apparent on "Shake It Off": "On this album, the verses stay in a narrow range, the choruses glide higher, and at the ends of some songs, Ms. Carey gives herself a few of her old sky-high notes as a background flourish." [36]
Nyong’o first discovered “Shake It Off,” the lead single from Swift’s 2014 album 1989, in the midst of filming Star Wars. “I was going through a lot of self-doubt because it was the ...
She added: “I also recall hearing similar player and hater phrases in many songs, films and other works prior to ‘Shake it Off,’” specifically recalling Eric Church using the same lyrics ...
In 1963, the song was adapted into French by Georges Aber as "Twiste et chante", meaning "Twist and sing" and was recorded by French pop singer Sylvie Vartan and was released as the third and final single off of her sophomore album of the same name that October. [106] The song peaked at Number 8 in the French Belgian charts in February 1964. [107]
The royal family posted a two-minute-long video of the guards playing an orchestral version of Swift's hit "Shake It Off" to X (formerly Twitter)."Can't stop, won't stop groovin,'" the royal ...