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“Shake It Up” is a song by American Rock band The Cars from their 1981 album of the same name. Although appearing for the first time in 1981, it was actually written years earlier by Ric Ocasek, who composed the vast majority of the band’s music. The song would go on to become The Cars’ most popular party song (peaking at number two on the US mainstream rock chart and number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1982). Along with the track, “Cruiser”, it also hit number fourteen on the US dance chart and continues to be a staple of dance parties. In the music video for it, some of the models crossdress. The song is relied on Dance-pop as the main genre, but Poprock follows along, everything from Elliot Easton’s edgy guitar riffs, to the guitar solo gives off a Poprock... Read on...