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"Shut Up and Let Me Go"
Song

"Shut Up and Let Me Go" is the forthcoming third single by British dance-pop duo The Ting Tings from their debut studio album We Started Nothing. The song will be physically released in the UK on July 21, 2008, but has already charted in the top thirty there due to strong download sales. The song has been added to the A list of BBC Radio 1's playlist, which means it will receive a substantial amount of airplay on the station.

After being featured in a successful Apple iPod advertisement in April 2008, "Shut Up and Let Me Go" was hastily released in the US on April 15, and was The Ting Tings' first single to chart inside the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.[1]

Music video

File:ShutUpAndLetMeGoVideo.jpg
Katie White and Jules De Martino in the music video.

The music video for "Shut Up and Let Me Go" was directed by Alex and Liane for Factory Films.[2] Filmed in one day, the video features the Ting Tings performing kung fu and uses a variety of hand gestures to transition from scene to scene.[3] The video begins with Katie White and Jules De Martino arm wrestling in a black, white and pink room. They are then shown in a studio fighting on a grassy set. Various scenes of White and De Martino in front of colourful backgrounds are intercut throughout the video.

Directors Alex and Liane described the video as "a bit over-ambitious" because of its fight scenes which "were just so time consuming to get right".[3] The various hand gestures were inspired by the Neoist art movement.[3] The video debuted on MTV in the United States on June 13 2008.[4]

Chart performance

"Shut Up and Let Me Go" was released in the United States on April 15 2008. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number ninety-three on May 13 2008.[5] The following week it reached its peak position at number fifty-five.[6] In Canada, the song reached number twenty-nine and remained on the Hot 100 chart for six weeks.[7]

Despite not receiving a CD single release in the United Kingdom, "Shut Up and Let Me Go" debuted at number forty-nine on the singles chart.[8] The following week the song peaked at number 29. Two weeks later, the song fell out of the chart, but on June 29 2008 the song re-entered the chart at number 24 and has so far peaked at number 15.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Shut Up and Let Me Go".

US digital download
(Released on April 15 2008)

  1. "Shut Up and Let Me Go" – 2:54

UK CD 1
(Released on July 21 2008)

  1. "Shut Up and Let Me Go" – 2:54
  2. "Shut Up and Let Me Go" [Haji and Emanuel Remix]

UK CD 2
(Released on July 21 2008)

  1. "Shut Up and Let Me Go" – 2:54
  2. "Shut Up and Let Me Go" [Tocadisco Love The Old School Mix]

UK Remixes CD
(Released on July 28 2008)

  1. "Shut Up and Let Me Go" [Tom Neville's Keep It Quiet Remix]
  2. "Shut Up and Let Me Go" [Chris Lake Remix]
  3. "Shut Up and Let Me Go" [Haji & Emanuel Remix]
  4. "Shut Up and Let Me Go" [Tocadisco Love The Old School Mix]

Charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Canadian Hot 100 Singles Chart[7] 29
UK Singles Chart[7] 15
US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart[6] 55
US Billboard Pop 100 Singles Chart[6] 37
US Billboard Modern Rock Singles Chart[6] 38
Japanese Hot 100 Singles Chart 64

Personnel

The following people contributed to "Shut Up and Let Me Go":

Notes

  1. ^ "Big Week For Tings in US". TheTingTings.com. April 29 2008. Retrieved June 1 2008.
  2. ^ "Videos". AlexAndLiane.com. Retrieved June 24 2008.
  3. ^ a b c Knight, David. "Ting Tings’ Shut Up And Let Me Go by Alex and Liane". PromoNews.tv. June 20 2008. Retrieved June 24 2008.
  4. ^ Paine, Andre. "U.K. pop duo Ting Tings building buzz in America". Reuters. June 8 2005. Retrieved June 24 2008.
  5. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 (Issue Date: Tuesday May 13th, 2008)". aCharts.us. Retrieved June 24 2008.
  6. ^ a b c d "Billboard Artist Chart History: Singles". Billboard. Retrieved June 1 2008.
  7. ^ a b c "Shut Up and Let Me Go World Charts". aCharts.us. Retrieved June 1 2008.
  8. ^ "UK Singles Top 75 (Issue Date: Tuesday May 27th, 2008)". aCharts.us. Retrieved June 24 2008.


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