Shake It (Sakis Rouvas song)

Infobox Single
Name = Shake It


Artist = Sakis Rouvas
from Album =
B-side =
Released = flagicon|Greece April, 2004
Format = Radio Single,
CD Single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = Minos EMI
Writer =
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Feelings"
(2003)
This single = "Shake It"
(2004)
Next single = "Se Thelo San Trelos"
(2004)
Misc = Audiosample
Upper caption = Audio sample
Name = Shake It
Audio file = rouvashakeitsample.ogg Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Greece "Shake It"


caption =
year = 2004
country = Greece
artist = Sakis Rouvas
as =
with =
language = English
languages =
composer = Nikos Terzis
lyricist = Nektarios Tirakis
conductor =
place = 3rd
points = 252
place_semi = 3rd
points_semi = 238
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?2004gr from the Diggiloo Thrush]
clip =
prev = Never Let You Go
prev_link = Never Let You Go (Mando song)
next = My Number One
next_link = My Number One

"Shake It" was the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, performed in English by Sakis Rouvas. The song is an up-tempo number, with Rouvas telling his lover that "I would trade my life for a night with you" and asking the lover to "shake it" for him. The music - by Nikos Terzis - also features some traditional Greek instrumentation as well as the heavy dance beats increasingly prominent at the Contest.

The performance was similarly sexualised, with Rouvas beginning by dancing with two girls wearing suits. As he sang the line "my world's on fire", he pulled red scarves from the trousers of his backing dancers. Later, he removed the suits from his dancers, revealing skimpy gold costumes. They later returned the favour by tearing his white jacket from him at the start of the final chorus, leaving him wearing a singlet and jeans. Live recordings of the performance feature loud cheers from the crowd as well as audible panting from Rouvas at the end of his athletic dance routine.

As Greece had not finished in the top 10 at the 2003 Contest, the song was first performed in the semi-final. Here, it was performed tenth (following Monaco's Märyon with Notre Planète and preceding Ukraine's Ruslana with Wild Dances). At the close of voting, it had received 238 points, placing 3rd in the 22-strong field and qualifying for the final.

In the final, it was performed sixteenth (following FYR Macedonia's Toše Proeski with Life and preceding Iceland's Jónsi with Heaven). At the close of voting, it had received 252 points, placing 3rd in a field of 24. It was succeeded as Greek representative at the 2005 Contest by Elena Paparizou with My Number One.

Two years later, Greece hosted the Contest, and Sakis was asked to co-present it. He made a slight reference to his performance when asked by co-host Maria Menounos how he had felt waiting for the results to be known. He told her that "I was shaking...brrrrrr...all over", prompting cheers from some of the audience.

Track listing

#"Shake It" (eurovision version)
#"Shake It" (club remix by Nick Terzis)
#"Shake It" (soumka mix)
#"Shake It" (marsheaux radio mix)
#"Shake It" (radio version)

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