You’re gonna “shut up and dance” with Walk The Moon’s floor-commanding single “Shut Up + Dance.”
Today, where singles, EPs, and LPs are like mushrooms shooting off every day in music’s greenery, “Shut Up + Dance” released in September 10, 2014 should be a distant memory. Yet, there’s a big, BUT! It seems this single has put a big, red “STOP” sign and has forbade itself to be buried in a cardboard box with the label: “Yesterday’s News.”
Because really, dominating the Billboard’s Hot 100 for 25 weeks – yes 25, just like Bruno Mar’s legendary “Uptown Funk” – will surely pluck it out of that dusty box and put it in your summer playlist.
So what’s with this single that ruled through autumn, jumped through winter, and remained this summer that got us so infected?
“Shut Up + Dance” is the lead single of the Walk The Moon’s second studio album Talking Is Hard. The song was actually based on their front man Nicholas Petricca’s experience when he went clubbing with his girl in Los Angeles. The song was first developed by Petricca and Eli Maiman, the band’s guitarist, and was later on finished by the band’s songwriters and members, Ben Berger and Ryan McMahon.
The single’s formula, while quite simple, will get you into the groove. Petricca’s contrasting vocals dominated the song. There are times that its placidity will put you in tamed head nods and tapping fingers then enter his booming voice accompanied by fast, simple guitar strumming and hype-inducing drum beats that will command you into loosing yourselves in the dance floor complete with heads banging, feet thumping, and hearts pounding.
It has been the anthem for throwing your inhibitions out of the window, or to be more apt, throwing it down the dance floor and whacking it with your “beat up sneaks,” while enjoying yourself in a “backless dress,” falling “victims of the night” and completely “helpless to the bass and faded light.”
To date, it topped the US Hot Rock Songs and US Rock Airplay. It snatched the 5th position of Billboard’s Hot 100 and still remains to be the band’s biggest hit single.
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