WATCH: The Cars – ‘Shake It Up’ Music Video – 1982

Many people would consider “Shake It Up” the classic song from The Cars with it’s catchy beat and easy-to-sing-along-to lyrics.   Here’s more about it from Wikipedia:

In 1982, The Cars scored a top five hit with ‘Shake It Up’, the first single released from their fourth studio album of the same name. Although appearing for the first time in 1981, it was actually written years earlier by the band’s songwriter and lead singer Ric Ocasek. The song became one of the Cars’ most popular songs (peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart and No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1982). With the track “Cruiser” as its b-side, it hit No. 14 on the Billboard Disco Top 80 chart. The song is primarily reliant on dance-pop as its main genre, with pop rock elements audible. Ocasek referred to the song as “the big return to pop” after the more art rock style of the preceding album, Panorama. Add to these keyboardist Greg Hawkes’ synthesizer lines, the associated instrument of bands labeled “new wave” at the time, and it is a prime example of The Cars’ genre blending.

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