The last time Walk the Moon was home for a show dates back to their MidPoint Music Festival appearance at the Taft Theatre after the release of 2017's What If Nothing. The song became a global phenomenon, reaching the top 5 of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart in the United States and the top 10 in countries around the world. As credits rolled and Meyers did the show's outro, Petricca grabbed the host and humped his leg like a hormonal macaque. Walk the Moon appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to debut “Shut Up and Dance,” the first single from their third album, Talking is Hard. RCA Records came calling and Walk the Moon signed on the dotted line.įast forward to late summer 2014.
Songlist: Marvin Gaye, (Sittin' On) The Dock of The Bay, Proud Mary, Creep, Beggin' / Counting Stars, Take Me To Church, Can't Feel My Face, Make You Feel My Love, All About That Bass (No Tenors), One The Road Again / I Play The Road, Red, Shut Up And Dance, Lost, The Movie Medley 22275c | $17.The band, formed by Nicholas Petricca at Kenyon College in 2006, was already on an upward trajectory after the 2011 success of the single “Anna Sun.” Esquire magazine touted it among the "30 Summer Songs Every Man Should Listen To," MTV and Seventeen magazine cited it as the song of the summer, and the Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr. It's great to see SNC, already pure entertainers in their college days, deservedly rise to shine with a cappella's elite groups!
Some of our favorites are a pair of medleys, "Dock of the Bay/Proud Mary" and "On The Road Again/I Play The Road", Radiohead's "Creep," Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love," Don Nottingham's "Lost" and a very funny "The Movie Medley," with parody lyrics by Tyler Trepp and Seggie Isho. Their tours sell out, they have a massive fan base, more than 20 million YouTube hits, five successful albums, "With A Twist" released this spring, and their latest, "The New Old Fashioned" is impressive: 13 tracks, mostly finely-arranged, wonderfully harmonized covers, with strong leads from Jerome Collins and Walter Chaser, every one a hit. Straight No Chaser : The New Old Fashionedįirst getting together at Indiana University a dozen years ago, their Christmas song medley blending "12 Days of Christmas" with Toto's "Africa" went massively viral on YouTube and brought these ten men happily back together. The band has performed "Shut Up and Dance" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Good Morning America. Outside the United States, the song topped the charts in Poland, peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom, the top twenty of the charts in New Zealand and Sweden and the top thirty of the charts in the Netherlands. The song became the band's biggest hit single to date, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming a number-one hit on the magazine's Alternative Songs chart and the Hot Adult Contemporary chart. The song was digitally released as the lead single from Talking Is Hard on September 10, 2014. Petricca envisioned the song as an anthem for letting go of frustration and having fun. His girlfriend invited him to dance, inspiring the title. The song is based on an experience frontman Nicholas Petricca had at a Los Angeles nightclub.
It was written by the band members and songwriters Ben Berger and Ryan McMahon. "Shut Up and Dance" is a song by American rock band Walk the Moon for their second studio album Talking Is Hard.