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}} "Shake It Up" is a song by 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 the band's songwriter and lead singer Ric Ocasek. The song would go on to become one of the Cars' most popular songs (peaking at number two on the ''Billboard'' Top Tracks chart and number four on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in early 1982). With the track "Cruiser" as its b-side, it hit number 14 on the ''Billboard'' Disco Top 80 chart. ==History== The song is primarily reliant on dance-pop as its main genre, with pop rock elements audible. 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. Drummer David Robinson has said at first he didn't even want to record the song, as it was "kicking around for years. It never sounded good. We recorded it a couple of times in the studio and dumped it, and we were going to try it one more time, and I was fighting everybody . . . So we thought, let's start all over again, like we've never even heard it—completely change every part—and we did. Then, when it was through and all put back together, it was like a brand-new song."〔Toby Goldstein, ''Frozen Fire: The Story of The Cars'', published 1985 by Contemporary Books, Inc., Chicago IL. ISBN 0-8092-5257-0〕 Guitarist Elliot Easton said he wanted his solo to sound like "two guys trading off". He plays first a Fender Telecaster in a style skewing "country", then midway through the solo switches to a Gibson Crank to sound more rock.〔Rock Solid Podcast 7/31/2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shake It Up (The Cars song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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