Shut Up (Black Eyed Peas song)
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{{Infobox Single |
| Name = Shut Up
| Cover = Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up - CD cover.jpg
| Artist = [[Black Eyed Peas]]
| from Album = [[Elephunk]]
| Released = [[2003]]
| Format = [[Compact Disc|CD]]
| Recorded = |
| Genre = [[Dance Pop]]<br>[[contemporary R&B|R&B]]<br> [[Hip Hop music|Hip Hop]]<br>[[Pop Rap]]
| Length = 4:56 <small>(album version)</small> <br /> 3:49 <small>(radio edit)</small>
| Label = [[A&M Records|A&M]]
| Producer =
| Certification = Platinum <small>([[Recording Industry Association of New Zealand|RIANZ]])</small> |
| Last single = "[[Where Is the Love?]]"<br>(2003) |
| This single = "Shut Up"<br>(2003) |
| Next single = "[[Hey Mama (Black Eyed Peas song)|Hey Mama]]"<br>(2004) |
}}
"'''Shut Up'''" is a song by the American [[hip hop music|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.
== 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]], [[Romania]], [[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.
"Shut Up" was Black Eyed Peas' first song to chart on the [[Latin America Top 40]] (tied with "[[Hey Mama (Black Eyed Peas song)|Hey Mama]]" which debuted the same week at #35.); it debuted in the week that the chart was created at #28<ref>[http://toplatino.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1 Shut Up's Debut Position]</ref>, peaking two weeks later at number #24 in its first run<ref>[http://toplatino.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3 Shut Up's Peak Position (Firts Run)]</ref>, the single fell off the chart three weeks later, and returned five weeks later at #37 and this time the single peaked at #18.<ref>[http://toplatino.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=21 Shut Up's Peak (2nd Time)]</ref>
==Music video==
[[Image:Black Eyed Peas-shutup.video.jpg|thumb|left|[[Fergie]] and [[Will.i.am]] in the music video.]]
The music video features an [[opera]] themed around a battle of the sexes. In it, [[Will.i.am]] and [[Taboo (rapper)|Taboo]] play [[Fergie (singer)|Fergie]]'s suitors, and [[apl.de.ap]] is the [[Conducting|conductor]].
== Trivia ==
{{trivia|date=August 2007}}
* The music video has several [[André the Giant Has a Posse]]-style posters near the stage man. Two posters from the song [[Where Is The Love?]] are also shown...
* [[will.i.am]] needed a good female singer for the song, so he brought in [[Fergie (singer)|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 (rapper)|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 [[House of Representatives of the Philippines|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.
* The white nationalist group [[National Vanguard (American organization)|National Vanguard]] adopted "[[Shut Up]]" as their theme song in 2007.
* The coda "[[Is That All There Is]]?" may be a riff on the [[Peggy Lee]] track of the same name, as it is sung with the same [[intonation]].
* The song is featured in the european version of the 2005 [[Playstation 2]] game [[Singstar Pop]].
==Track Listing==
;[[iTunes Store]] - Shut Up (Remix) – Single
#"Shut Up" (Remix) – 4:23
==External links==
* [[Music Video]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtGGLaXftJg&mode=related&search=]
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| before = "[[Predictable|Predictable / Happy Xmas (War Is Over)]]" <br> by [[Delta Goodrem]]
| title = [[Australian Record Industry Association|ARIA (Australia)]] number one single
| years = [[December 28]] [[2003]] - [[January 11]] [[2004]]
| after = "[[Hey Ya!]]" by [[OutKast]]
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| before = "[[Obsesión]]" by [[Aventura]]
| title = [[FIMI number-one hits of 2004|Italian (FIMI) number-one single]]
| years = [[January 17]] [[2004]]
| after = "[[Dragostea din tei]]" by [[Haiducii]]
}}
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| before = "L'Orange / Wot" by [[Star Academy France|Star Academy 3]]
| title = [[Ultratop|Belgian (Wallonia) Ultratop 40 Singles Chart]]
| years = [[January 31]], [[2004]] - [[February 14]], [[2004]]
| after = "[[Si demain... (Turn Around)]]" <br> by [[Bonnie Tyler]] & [[Kareen Antonn]]
}}
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| before = "[[Si demain... (Turn Around)]]" <br> by [[Bonnie Tyler]] & [[Kareen Antonn]]
| title = [[SNEP number-one hits of 2006|French (SNEP) number one single]]
| years = [[January 25]], [[2004]]
| after = "[[Si demain... (Turn Around)]]" <br> by [[Bonnie Tyler]] & [[Kareen Antonn]]
}}In the music video a green day suit jacket is worn
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{{Black Eyed Peas}}
==References==
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[[Category:2003 singles]]
[[Category:Black Eyed Peas songs]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in Australia]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in Austria]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in Germany]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in France]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in Ireland]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in Italy]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in Switzerland]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in Norway]]
[[Category:Number-one singles in Sweden]]
[[Category:Hip hop songs]]
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