Next is the bridge. However, it's like the intro but without Dupri's interruptions. "I gotta shake, shake, shake, shake, shake it off."
In the second verse, she heard from her friends that he was galavanting around, taking his other girlfriends to the places he once took her to. She adds that she would continue but her cellphone isn't receiving a signal. However, he can expect another whispery, long-winded message. She tells him it's over and not to expect to contact him ever again. "I found out about a gang/ Of your dirty little deeds/ With this one and that one/ By the pool, on the beach, in the streets/ Heard y'all was/ Hold up my phone's breakin' up/ I'ma hang up and call the machine right back/ I gotta get this off of my mind/ You wasn't worth my time/ I've leaving you behind/ 'Cause I need a real love in my life/ Save this recording because/ I'm never coming back home/ Baby I'm gone/ Don't cha know."
After the chorus, the bridge ends the single.
The lush "Shake It Off" finds Carey head-bobbing and snapping with a wink. The name-dropping of products is used sparingly and not overdone. However, it's a so laid-back that it almost disappears.
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Aaman
Pam, the link to your site does not work - please check it in your blogcritics profile. I suggest removing the www
2 - Pam Avoledo
Thank you, Aaman. I corrected it.
3 - Aaman
Nope - still doesn't work - Philip, can you set this for Pam? It should be just http://dusk411.joeuser.com
4 - Phillip Winn
Pam had correctly updated the URL, but the page needed to be rebuilt.
Nice review, Pam!
5 - carmellita
hi i love you please write back i am you are my favorite fan. my name is carmellita i love you agin
6 - Jennifer
I love this song! Mariah is the best female artist around. Mariah email me.
Love ya
Jennifer
7 - McBfly
Hi...
The link for Calgon commercial is not working (www.takemeaway.com).
Can anybody let me know the correct link?
Thank you SoSo Much.
McBfly
8 - yvoncampbell
YOU UGLY
9 - TANIKA
THIS SONG IS THE BOMB!!! MARIAH DID THA DAMN THANG WIT' THIS ONE. IT REALLY TOUCHED CLOSE TO HOME FROM MY PERSPECTIVE. THANKS MIMI FOR THIS ONE!!!
10 - pinal
Mariah is the best singer i've ever heard.. she got beautiful voice and she is talented!!
luv ya
11 - smmer mccoy
i hate u but my bff loves u - her name is samantha - well bye
12 - natalie
hiya .. your new song is brill .. i jus love it .... u r realy pritty aswell ... plz ryt bak ... love ya ! ryan :P
13 - corrinne
mariah cary ur georgeous babe i fell in love with da song we belong together now this 1 to keep it up LOVE ALWAYS CORRINNE mwah
14 - ashleigh
elo i think maria carey has got the best voice ive ever heard my best song i think she song is we belong together
luv ya
15 - kirara
I Love that mimi keep doing tha damn thang.
16 - trisha
Hey girl, you really captured the feeling of leaving a loser in this song. It happens just like your song, thanks for giving it a voice.
17 - Cynthia
Great song... Shake you off... I love it... and Mariah's voice is beautiful
18 - lady t
gotz a lovely voice.
would luv 2 do a duet wid mariah, shes beautiful and very talented
19 - Valerie
I just need to know if that is Chris Tucker in the car with her towards the end?????
20 - Joey
This song is really awesome!! Mariah is personally one of my favourite singers. The background music and lyrics are REALLY SOMETHING!!
All the best for the times to come Mimi,
Joey
21 - crystal
WOW! Your a great writer. You would get an "A" in my English class!!! That is an awsome personal responce!!
22 - eriqo
BELISSIMO!!!!!
23 - anonymous
Just like Eminem has said about her, "She is crazy and has issues, all she has is her looks".
Age has not been good to Mariah. I think she has been alot these last couple of years. She is aging way to fast to be so young. The makeup is just packing and packing on her face. Though, I think it is nearly undectable. Kudos, to her makeup artist and hair dyer!
I know that Mariah was recently at the UCLA Pysch ward for depression. Which is a known fact. I hope that she is better now!!!
But Mariah, I say, is a good singer but seems to have a lot of issues. She seems to be arrogant, obnoxious, and little off in the wet noodles (her brain).
It's like the recently implanted breast implants are leaking up to her head! And, it is also obvious she had a small nose surgery. For the most part, I don't count face surgery because you still have your small facial parts after facial cosmetic surgery.
But I don't understand why she would want to put a foreign object like breast implants in her chest! Yuck....
But more power to her if it makes her happy!
24 - ty
Whoa, interesting comments, anonymous! I love your post!!! LOL I wished you would have put your name I would love to know what other ideals you have about the world!
I agree Mariah use to be more humble back in the day. Now, it's like she is so bitter because of all the bad things that has happened to her like her depression.
Now, she has this "I am all that" attitude because there is more competition and because she was baraded by the press the past few years like a stray alley cat on prozac. I mean the media had field day with her and Glitter. They made fun of the fact she refuses to grow up.
Though, Mariah is still young at age 35 years old.
25 - raashi
Your right Mariah hasn't grown up after all these years. Who at her age talks about Butterflies in my stomach, rainbow and lollipops like she is a newcoming pre teen skank rivaling for Britney Spears and Christina A. pre-dirty, still not yet a woman audience.