Shut Up (Black Eyed Peas song)
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| Image:Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up - CD cover.jpg | |||||
| Single by Black Eyed Peas from the album Elephunk | |||||
| Released | 2003 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Genre | Hip hop, R&B, pop | ||||
| Length | 4:56 | ||||
| Label | A&M | ||||
| Certification | Platinum (RIANZ) | ||||
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"Shut Up" is a song by the American hip hop band Black Eyed Peas. The 2003 single is the second one taken from their 2003 album Elephunk. It is about a disastrous courtship with the chorus consisting of the lines "shut up, just shut up shut up". The song was not released as a single in U.S. due to the success of "Where is the Love?". However, it received massive airplay.
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[edit] Song information and chart performance
"Shut up" was not released in the US but became an instant success internationally. "Shut up" was released as the album's second single in late 2003, after "Where is the love?".
The single has become an international success reaching #1 in Australia , Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The single also reached #2 in the UK and the Netherlands, and also peaked at #3 in Finland. "Shut up" has become one of the Black Eyed Peas' most successful singles to date and was only slightly weaker than the preceding single. In Australia the single debuted at #2 and fell to #3 the following week and remained at #3 the week after. However after staying at #3 for two weeks the single rose back up to its debut position at #2 and the following week rose to #1 and remained at the top for three consecutive weeks (half of the amount spent at the top by their previous single, "Where is the love?" which spent six weeks at the top).
"Shut Up" was Black Eyed Peas' first song to chart on the Latin America Top 40 (tied with "Hey Mama" which debuted the same week at #35.); it debuted in the week that the chart was created at #28[1], peaking two weeks later at number #24 in its first run[2], the single fall off the chart three weeks later, and returned five weeks later at #37 and this time the single peak at #18.[3]
[edit] Music video
The music video features an opera themed around a battle of the sexes. In it, will.i.am and Taboo play Fergie's suitors, and apl.de.ap is the conductor.
[edit] Trivia
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- The music video has several André the Giant Has a Posse-style posters near the stage man.
- will.i.am needed a good female singer for the song, so he brought in Fergie. She helped out in most of the songs in "Elephunk" and eventually became the fourth member of the Black Eyed Peas in 2003.
- While Will, apl.de.ap, and Taboo were making the song, their girlfriends' phone calls would interrupt the session. Will said "The vibe was blown" and Taboo said "So we turned the negative into positive", by adding the problems they were having into the song they were making.
- Kimberly Wyatt from the Pussycat Dolls was featured in the video. Carmit Bachar, also of the Pussycat Dolls was featured as a back up dancer.
- The song was used as a parody for Philippines' Maguindanao Representative Didagen Dilangalen when an audience sent him a letter during a session in the Philippine House of Representatives containing the words "Shut Up!"
- During an episode of the Bravo TV reality show Being Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston lip-synchs to and sings along with "Shut Up" playing on car radio.
[edit] External links
- Music Video [1]
| Preceded by "Predictable / Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" by Delta Goodrem | ARIA (Australia) number one single December 28 2003 - January 11 2004 | Succeeded by "Hey Ya!" by OutKast |
| Preceded by "L'Orange / Wot" by Star Academy 3 | Belgian (Wallonia) Ultratop 40 Singles Chart January 31, 2004 - February 14, 2004 | Succeeded by "Si demain... (Turn Around)" by Bonnie Tyler & Kareen Antonn |
| Preceded by "Si demain... (Turn Around)" by Bonnie Tyler & Kareen Antonn | French (SNEP) number one single January 25, 2004 | Succeeded by "Si demain... (Turn Around)" by Bonnie Tyler & Kareen Antonn |
Black Eyed Peas | |
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| will.i.am · apl.de.ap · Taboo · Fergie Dante Santiago · Kim Hill | |
| Studio albums | Behind the Front · Bridging the Gap · Elephunk · Monkey Business · The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) |
| Other albums | Renegotiations: The Remixes |
| Singles | "Fallin' Up" · "Joints & Jams" · "Karma" · "What It Is" · "¿Que Dices?" · "Head Bobs" · "BEP Empire" · "Weekends" · "Get Original" · "Request Line" · "Where Is the Love?" · "Shut Up" · "Hey Mama" · "Let's Get It Started" · "The Apl Song" · "Don't Phunk with My Heart" · "Don't Lie" · "My Humps" · "Pump It" · "Gone Going" · "Like That" · "Mas Que Nada" · "Bebot" · "More" |
| Tours | Elephunk Tour · Monkey Business Tour · Honda Civic Tour · Black Blue & You Tour |
| Related articles | Discography |
[edit] References
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