"Shake It Off" (shake sb/sth off), from Cambrige Dictionaries Online, means 1. to get away from someone or something that will not stop following you. 2. (informal) to beat an opponent, or to free yourself from someone or something that is limiting you. The idiom seems so appealing to some singers to sing and write the personal songs titled "Shake It Off" with various meanings and genres. These are three popular singers that I knew have the singles titled "Shake It Off." Let's not compare them because their own "Shake It Off"s are really different at the meaning and the spirit.
1. Taylor Swift
Swift's version is about the Swift's dislike of haters. This is the lead single of Swift's fifth album (the first pop one), 1989. Rich of drum beat. Personally, I didn't recognize the production of Max Martin (that has worked with Katy Perry ("California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "E.T.", "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)", "Roar", "Dark Horse", etc.), Britney Spears ("...Baby One More Time", "Oops!... I Did It Again", "Till the World Ends", "I Wanna Go", etc.), and many more) and Shellback (Britney Spears ("If U Seek Amy", "I Wanna Go", etc.), Pink ("So What", "Raise Your Glass", etc.), and many more). Exactly, it's not the first time Swift working with them. On the previous album (Red), Max Martin and Shellback wrote and produced "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "I Knew You Were Trouble", and "22".
The music video is typical pop music video with an extensive dance move (twerkiiing!). The song with a contiguous freedom taste.
2. Mariah Carey
"Shake It Off" maybe was less popular than a massive and queen-returning "We Belong Together," but this song was considered one of the best songs in The Emancipation of Mimi and reached moderate success (peaked at #2 on Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks!) and crowned Carey's as the first female lead artist occupied the top two positions of the Hot 100 ("We Belong Together" #1 and "Shake It Off" #2 at the same week). The Carey's version is rich of R&B sound that was praised with generally positive reviews from music critics.
"Shake It Off" remarks the standout from a relationship with an unfaithful lover, packing the Louis Vuitton and breaking up with him over an answering machine. Very favorable, R&B, and Mariah Carey.
3. Agnez Mo (previously known as Agnes Monica)
"Shake It Off" was included by an Indonesia pop singer, Agnez Mo, in her third studio album, Sacredly Agnezious. Agnez Mo herself wrote the song and Erwin Gutawa produced it. Agnez's voice is incredible here, not over-sang and melismatic at the end. The song contains a rich dance vibe and the lyrics suggest us to follow her to dance and shake it off!
They write and sing them for you, so enjoy and shake it off!
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