Shake It

Saturday, May 20, 2017

I have lived long enough but apparently I am still too young to understand what happiness really is. However, I never think that I am too old to celebrate excitement with a dance. Once upon a night, I danced with my significant other in our room. We danced to a reggae song. Nothing particularly special happened that night, but we just felt like dancing. Hence our bodies were moving along the rhythm and melody. That night, I felt happiness. Well, I guess happiness cannot be defined easily but we can clearly feel it at certain moments. In love and romance relationship too, there are times when we feel the excitement because of falling in love. Falling in love, at its best moments, is shaking up the inside of us. Falling in love, at its greatest moments, is waking up the butterflies in our stomach. Falling in love, at its happiest moments, is making us dancing with all of our body and soul. This is about falling in love at its most cheesy yet beautiful moment. This is about falling in love at its most corny yet wonderful moment. This is when falling in love makes you dance.

“This is a dance to tempt you only. I’m blasting my charm into your heart. Just by our fingers that are brushing each other, my heart pounds. My heart is shaking.” –SISTAR, Shake It

This song that would make you dance into the rhythm is titled “Shake It”, performed by Korean famous girl group, SISTAR. This electro dance track was released on June 22nd 2015 as the title song taken from the group’s third mini album (fifth extended plays) of the same name. Written and composed by Duble Sidekick, Hot-D, and HOMEBOY, the arrangement of the song was done by Glory Face. An official music video for “Shake It” was premiered on MBC Music on June 19th 2015. The music video starred SISTAR’s fellow artist, Kang Kyun Sung of the vocal group Noel. A dance practice video was also released on June 24th 2015 via Starship Entertainment’s official YouTube account.

"Shake It" mini album cover | source: en.wikipedia.org

It is not happening all the time but there is this time when love feels so good until the point you want to dance with all of your body. It is not always happening but there is this time when love makes you feel so excited until the point that you might lose yourself to the rhythm. And yes, when people are crazily in love like that, they tend to do everything just to get the attention of the subject of their affection. They are willing to try anything just to tempt that person and blast their charm towards that person. “This is a dance to tempt you only. I’m blasting my charm into your heart. Just by our fingers that are brushing each other, my heart pounds. My heart is shaking.” And yes, being in a crazy love like that, people are experiencing this electrifying feeling inside them that makes their heart shakes. They tend to feel this kind of tingling connection from the affection. “Very fun and smart, shake it. Our entire body is electric, two of us, shake it. We’re seriously connecting. This place is on fire. When I move, we found our place.”

It is not happening every time but there is this time when love is full with excitement like a blooming spring with many flowers around you. It is not happening every day but there is this time when love is full with passionate feeling like your heart cannot stop dancing. And yes, when people are being crazily in love like that, they tend to just enjoy the moment of happiness they have. They are willing to do all the things to cherish the moment of joy and affection they currently experience. “Shake it for me. This electrifying feeling makes me dance. Right at this moment, shake it.” And yes, when people are in love like that, they say that it brings out the best out of them as they want to show their best self: the most beautiful one, the sexiest one, and the most attractive one. At time like that, they just want to let it all out with nothing to lose. “Shake it, oh shake it, shake it up, shake it for me. Shake it for me my baby, shake it for me my baby. Everyone come together and dance, just shake it, let’s dance, a little hotter, completely wilder.”

When people are being crazily and passionately in love like that, the most important thing of all is that they want to share the excitement and electrifying feeling with the subject of their affection. They want that person to be able to feel what they feel. Hence they are able to dance together. Hence they can feel their hearts are shaking together. “Baby, love me. Love me now. Don’t you know that my heart is shaking? So let’s dance. Just shake it. Let’s dance, a little hotter, completely wilder. Make it louder, again and more, make it louder. Keep shaking me, amazingly shake me, shake it all night with me. Shake it baby.” And yes, when people are being in love like that, they want the feeling to last forever. They want it to stay like that and even more exciting. They want to keep the sparks. They want the feeling to live forever. Since they understand that it might not happen, they just want to enjoy the present moment instead, while it lasts. While they got it, they want to dance all night with the passionate and crazy love they have right now.

SISTAR in the music video of "Shake It" | source: Starship Entertainment

Been living for years together with my significant other makes me wonder about the feeling I felt back then when I met him for the first time. The funny thing is: I occasionally find myself having the same excitement that I had the first time I met him. That is when I realize that I am in love with this person; that I am falling in love with him every day, and that I am being in love with him every time. Though there are times when love feels like a warm coal rather than a hot fire, there are times too when I feel the same passionate and crazy love for him that I felt during our first months together. There are times when my heart is dancing every time I see him. There are times when my body is shaking every time I am with him. Having this relationship for this long, I understand that there are phases and stages in relationship. However though, I would like to enjoy and cherish every moment, whether it is hot or cold, whether it is passionate or calm. So when you are at the hot and passionate stage for now, just enjoy it. Love is indeed a game; so it is okay to have an exciting start.

“Baby, love me. Love me now. Don’t you know that my heart is shaking? So let’s dance. Just shake it. Let’s dance, a little hotter, completely wilder.” –SISTAR, Shake It

너만을 유혹하는 춤 우우우 우우우우! 심장에 매력 발산 중 우우우 우우우우!

(Neomaneul yuhokhaneun chum, uuu uuuu! Simjange maeryeok balsan jung, uuu uuuu!)

((This is a dance to tempt you only, uuu uuuu! I’m blasting my charm into your heart, uuu uuuu!))

손끝만 스쳐도 막 쿵쿵쿵쿵 oh! 내 맘이 흔들려

(Sonkkeutman seuchyeodo mak kungkungkungkung oh! Nae mami heundeullyeo)

((Just by our fingers that are brushing each other, my heart pounds, oh! My heart is shaking))

Shake it, shake it for me, shake it, shake it for me

나나나 나나나 나나나! Hey! 나나나 나나나 나나나! Hey!

((Nanana nanana nanana! Hey! Nanana nanana nanana! Hey!))

짜릿한 이 느낌 날 춤을 추게 해 지금 이 순간 shake it

(Jjarithan i neukkim nal chumeul chuge hae jigeum i sungan, shake it)

((This electrifying feeling makes me dance, right at this moment, shake it))

Bae bae baby, love me love me love me now 흔들리는 내 맘 모르겠니

(Bae bae baby, love me love me love me now, heundeullineun nae mam moreugenni)

((Bae bae baby, love me, love me, love me now, don’t you know that my heart is shaking?))

So let’s dance, just shake it let’s dance 좀 더 핫하게 완전 와일드하게

(So let’s dance, just shake it let’s dance, jom deo hathage wanjeon waildeuhage)

((So let’s dance, just shake it, let’s dance, a little hotter, completely wilder))

Make it louder 우우우 더 크게 make it louder 우우우

(Make it louder, uuu, deo keuge, make it louder, uuu)

((Make it louder, uuu, again and more, make it louder, uuu))

날 자꾸 흔들어 흔들어 놀라게 흔들어 shake it, oh shake it 밤새 나와 shake it baby

(Nal jakku heundeureo heundeureo nollage heundeureo, shake it, oh shake it, bamsae nawa, shake it baby)

((Keep shaking me, amazingly shake me, shake it, oh shake it, all night, with me, shake it baby))

아주 fun하고 smart하게 흔들흔들어 온몸이 찌릿찌릿 우리 둘이 흔들흔들어

(Aju funhago smarthage heundeul heundeureo onmomi jjiritjjirit uri duri heundeul heundeureo)

((Very fun and smart, shake it, shake it, our entire body is electric, two of us, shake it, shake it))

심하게 통하니 여기 불났으니 when I move 움직여 자리 잡았으니

(Simhage tonghani yeogi bulnasseuni, when I move, umjigyeo jari jabasseuni)

((We’re seriously connecting, this place is on fire, when I move, move, we found our place))