["'Cause the loving ain't the same","'Cause the loving ain't the same","I gotta shake, shake it off","I really gotta get up outta here","So I'm leaving you behind","","","Save this recording because","And you keep on playing games","Find somebody who","I really gotta get up outta here","","Don't cha know","Shake, shake, shake shake, shake it off","By the time you get this message","","And you keep on playing games","'Cause the loving ain't the same","See I grabbed all my diamonds and clothes","Gotta do what's best for me","By the pool, on the beach, in the streets","Everybody just, everybody just bounce, bounce","","You wasn't worth my time","Hold up, my phone's breakin' up","","","","And you keep on playing games","I gotta shake, shake, shake shake, shake it off","I really gotta get up outta here","I gotta shake, shake it off","Like you know I'm here to stay","Boy I gotta shake, shake it off","Boy I gotta shake, shake you off","Shake, shake, shake shake, shake it off","I gotta shake you off","","And go somewhere","Baby and that means","","I gotta shake it off","Shake, shake, shake shake, shake it off","Gotta make that move","Gotta do what's best for me","And go somewhere","Just like the Calgon commercial","Who loves you more than me","Gotta do what's best for me","You would cheat with all your freaks","I gotta shake, shake it off","You'll never ever find a girl","","Shake, shake, shake shake, shake it off","And go somewhere","Hate to say, \"I told you so\"","I gotta shake it off","But now it's clear to me","I gotta shake you off","","Gotta make that move","Just like the Calgon commercial","I gotta shake you off","","","I gotta shake, shake it off","I gotta shake you off","I'ma hang up and call the machine right back","Like you know I'm here to stay","I gotta shake, shake it off","With this one and that one","Gotta make that move","'Cause the loving ain't the same","Everybody just, everybody just bounce, bounce","Well at first I didn't know","It's gonna be too late","","Find somebody who","Boy I gotta shake, shake it off","And you keep on playing games","I really gotta get up outta here","Shake, shake, shake shake, shake it off","Find somebody who","Like you know I'm here to stay","I just gotta shake you off","Appreciates all the love I give","","Just like the Calgon commercial","","I gotta get this off of my mind","'Cause I need a real love in my life","I gotta shake you off","And go somewhere","I found out about a gang","Just like the Calgon commercial","","Baby and that means","So don't bother paging me","Baby and that means","Everybody just, everybody just bounce, bounce","'Cause I'll be on my way","Find somebody who","Gotta do what's best for me","Baby and that means","Jumped in your ride and took off","Gotta make that move","Everybody just, everybody just bounce, bounce","And lie compulsively","I gotta shake it off","","","I gotta shake you off","Shake, shake, shake shake, shake it off","I gotta shake it off","Appreciates all the love I give","Heard y'all was","You're gonna miss me baby","","Baby I'm gone","","","I'm never coming back home","Boy I gotta shake, shake it off","","I gotta shake you off","","Appreciates all the love I give","Of your dirty little deeds","","","Appreciates all the love I give","So I packed up my Louis Vuitton","I gotta shake it off","Just ask your momma she knows","I gotta shake, shake, shake shake, shake it off","I gotta shake, shake you off","Like you know I'm here to stay"]
Performed by: "Jay-Z, Mariah Carey & Young Jeezy"; Mariah Carey Written by: Johnata M Austin; Mariah Carey; Bryan Michael Paul Cox; Jermaine Dupri
Credits: Austin, Johnata M (Songwriter); Carey, Mariah (Songwriter); Cox, Bryan Michael Paul (Songwriter); Dupri, Jermaine (Songwriter); BABYBOY'S LITTLE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Publisher); EMI APRIL MUSIC INC. (Publisher); NAKED UNDER MY CLOTHES (Publisher); NOONTIME SOUTH INC. (Publisher); RYE SONGS (Publisher); SHANIAH CYMONE MUSIC (Publisher); SONGS OF UNIVERSAL INC (Publisher); W B M MUSIC CORP (Publisher)
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."[3]Yahoo! Music's Dan Gennoe called the song "Usher-lite",[4] 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."[5]Blender magazine ranked it 38 on its 100 Greatest Songs of 2005 list.[6]
Chart performance
In the United States, "Shake It Off" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 66, the week's highest debut.[7] In its seventh week on the chart, it reached number 2 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.[8] "Shake It Off" was at the number 2 position for six weeks after "We Belong Together" fell from number 1; it was subsequently held off the top spot by Kanye West's "Gold Digger." 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 15.[9]
The song was less successful outside the U.S. It reached the top five in New Zealand and number 6 in Australia, and was issued as a double A-side with "Get Your Number" in the United Kingdom and the Ireland, where it reached number 9 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 a 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 football 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 also features a cameo by a young girl who also appeared in her 1995 "Fantasy" video, and Boo Boo Stewart made a cameo appearance, but was axed from the final version of the video.
