"Shut Up and Dance" is a song by American hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Aerosmith

Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...

. Written by Steven Tyler

Steven Tyler

Steven Tyler is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the frontman and lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, and occasional piano and percussion. He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'", due to his high screams...

, Joe Perry

Joe Perry (musician)

Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith. He is influenced by many rock artists especially The Rolling Stones and The Beatles...

, Jack Blades

Jack Blades

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, and Tommy Shaw

Tommy Shaw

Tommy Roland Shaw is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the rock band Styx. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with the supergroup Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades, and has released several solo albums....

, it is a hard rocking song from the band's massively successful 1993

1993 in music

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 album Get a Grip

Get a Grip

Get a Grip is the 11th studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in April 1993 by Geffen Records. Get a Grip was the band's last studio album to be released by Geffen before they returned to Columbia Records....

. It is one of seven singles from that album to chart on any chart, reaching #24 on the UK Singles Chart

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Although it did not chart in the United States, it remains a popular rock song and saw increased popularity when the band performed it live in the 1993 movie Wayne's World 2

Wayne's World 2

Wayne's World 2 is a 1993 comedy film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as hosts of a Public-access television cable TV show from Aurora, Illinois. The film was adapted from a sketch on NBC's Saturday Night Live and is the sequel to Wayne's World....

. This live version can be found on the Wayne's World 2 soundtrack

Wayne's World 2 (soundtrack)

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It is one of the more hard rocking songs from Get a Grip featuring loud, fast-paced dueling lead guitar playing by Joe Perry and Brad Whitford

Brad Whitford

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, a heavy bass rhythm and drum beat by Tom Hamilton

Tom Hamilton (musician)

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 and Joey Kramer

Joey Kramer

Joseph Michael "Joey" Kramer is the drummer for the American hard rock band Aerosmith....

 and predominantly low vocals by Steven Tyler, with the exceptions of bridges and choruses.

Some of the lyrics are somewhat obscene, many of them tongue-in-cheek double entendres, such as "sex is like a gun: you aim, you shoot, you run" and "when you're splittin' hairs with Mr. Clean

Mr. Clean

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, it's like gettin' head

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 from a guillotine

Guillotine

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, and the night has just begun." The chorus is a refrain of "talk is cheap, shut up and dance; don't get deep, shut up and dance."