Shake It Off

Infobox Single
Name = Shake It Off


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Artist = Mariah Carey
Album = The Emancipation of Mimi
A-side = "Get Your Number" (Europe)
B-side = "Secret Love"
Released = Start date|2005|7|12
(see release history)
Format = CD single, digital download
Recorded = New York City, United States and Tokyo, Japan
Genre = Pop, R&B
Length = 3:52
Label = Island
Writer = Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, Johnta Austin
Producer = Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox
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Certification = Gold (ARIA)
Last single = "We Belong Together"
(2005)
This single = "Shake It Off"
(2005)
Next single = "Get Your Number"
(2005)
Misc = Extra track listing
Album = The Emancipation of Mimi
Type = studio
prev_track = "We Belong Together"
prev_no = 2
this_track = "Shake It Off"
track_no = 3
next_track = "Mine Again"
next_no = 4

"Shake It Off" is a song co-written by American singer Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, Johnta Austin, and recorded for Carey's fourteenth album, "The Emancipation of Mimi" (2005). It was co-produced by Carey, Dupri and Cox. It was released as the album's third single in 2005 (see 2005 in music).

Release and reception

"Shake It Off" was released to mainstream top 40 contemporary hit radio in the United States on July 12 2005.cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = CHR - Available for Airplay | work = FMQB | publisher = Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Inc. and Mediaspan Online Services | date = | url = http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=69239 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ] The remix of the song was produced by DJ Clue—who had produced the remix for Carey's previous single, "We Belong Together"—and features rappers Jay-Z and Young Jeezy. It was released for paid download on July 20.

Todd Burns of "Stylus" magazine said that the song was "sultry". [cite web | last = Burns | first = Todd | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi | work = Stylus | publisher = | date = April 14 2005 | url = http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=2923
format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ] Bill Lamb of About.com said it was "little more than a pleasant piece of pop fluff [...] it is unlikely to be one of Mariah Carey's more memorable hits." [cite web | last = Lamb | first = Bill | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Shake It Off - Mariah Carey | work = About.com | publisher = | date = | url = http://top40.about.com/od/singles/gr/shakeitoff.htm | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ] Yahoo! Music's Dan Gennoe called the song "Usher-lite", [cite web | last = Gennoe | first = Dan | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Mariah Carey - The Emancipation Of Mimi | work = Yahoo! Music | publisher = Yahoo! and Dotmusic | date = April 20 2005 | url = http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/050420/33/1xkmj.html | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ] a criticism shared by Sal Cinquemani of "Slant Magazine": she called "Shake It Off" as "Usher by way of Dupri", and grouped it among "the songs [on the album] that don't work [...] in which Mariah too heavily bites on the styles of her successors". [cite web | last = Cinquemani | first = Sal | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Mariah Carey - The Emancipation Of Mimi | work = Slant Magazine | publisher = | date = 2005 | url = http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=571 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ] "Blender" magazine ranked it thirty-eighth on its 100 Greatest Songs of 2005 list. [cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The 100 Greatest Songs of 2005 | work = Blender | publisher = Alpha Media Group Inc. | date = Jan/Feb 2006 | url = http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1841 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ]

Chart performance

In the United States, "Shake It Off" entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 at number sixty-six, the week's highest debut. [cite news |first=Barry A. |last=Jeckell |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title=Mariah's 'Together' Holds Off 'Replay' Charge |url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000989352 |work=Billboard |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |date=July 21 2005 |accessdate=2008-08-26 ] In its seventh week on the chart, it reached number two behind Carey's previous single, "We Belong Together", marking the first time a female lead artist occupied the top two positions of the Hot 100. [cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Chart Beat | work = Billboard | publisher = Nielsen Business Media, Inc. | date = September 1 2005 | url = http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001053461 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ] "Shake It Off" was at the number two position for six weeks, and it stayed on the Hot 100 for twenty-six weeks. On "Billboard" magazine's 2005 Hot 100 year-end chart, the single was at number fifteen. [cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Billboard Hot 100 - Shake It Off | work = Billboard.com | publisher = Nielsen Business Media, Inc. | date = December 31 2005 | url = http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=411&cfgn=Year-end+Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3077198&cdi=9011301&cid=12%2F31%2F2005 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-08-26 ]

The song was less successful outside the U.S. It reached the top five in New Zealand and number six in Australia, and was issued as a double A-side with "Get Your Number" in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, where it reached number nine and the top twenty, respectively.

Music video

The single's video was directed by Jake Nava and begins with Carey learning of her boyfriend's infidelity. She informs him on the PDA that she is breaking up with him, packs her bags, and leaves the apartment. Carey stops near a restaurant, and then appears in a bus speaking on her PDA, with Chris Tucker as the man in the passenger's seat. Behind the car, a sign reading "Hollyhood" comes into vision, and the video is intercut with scenes of her boyfriend accompanied by other women. Carey is then shown on bleachers at a high school baseball game. She writes "MIMI" on one of the bleachers and the letters transform into a large shiny "MIMI" sign made of lights, which Carey dances and sings in front of. In the final scene, she approaches the ocean on a beach, shaking off her dress in the process.

The video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in 2006, in the category of Best R&B Video, which it lost to Beyoncé Knowles's "Check on It".

Charts

¹ "Shake It Off"/"Get Your Number"

Release history

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External links

*YouTube|_eLy9p14ntc|Music video