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Ohio band Walk the Moon discusses their hit_ by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/) and [Salima Koroma](https://time.com/author/salima-koroma/) Jun 25, 2015 11:00 AM UTC by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/) and [Salima Koroma](https://time.com/author/salima-koroma/) Jun 25, 2015 11:00 AM UTC Walk the Moon’s infectious hit single “Shut Up and Dance” is finally getting its due. Months after it was first released, the song has cracked the Top 10 on _Billboard_’s Hot 100 and garnered serious buzz as a possible song of the summer—a title a rock band hasn’t taken since the days of Smash Mouth. Not that the band minds having a sleeper hit on their hands: “I think the slower the rise, the better for us,” singer-keyboardist Nicholas Petricca tells TIME. “It’s pretty much doing everything we could possibly have hoped. If we made a list of all the things that we would like this song to do, it’s just knocking them down. It’s really surreal to be living that life right now.” In addition to endorsements from [Ed Sheeran](http://time.com/3917673/ed-sheeran-song-of-the-summer-shut-up-and-dance/) (who counts himself as a fan) and [Apple](http://9to5mac.com/2015/06/10/walk-the-moon-wwdc-bash/) (the band played its Worldwide Developers Conference Bash in June), “Shut Up and Dance” is even getting love from Wyclef Jean, who is gracing the song with his rapping skills on an upcoming remix. “He loves weird rock’n’roll,” Petricca says. “He was introduced to some of our demos by a friend of a friend when we were making the record, and he wanted to meet up and hang out.” TIME sat down with Walk the Moon to talk about the rise of “Shut Up and Dance,” their new single “Different Colors” and what makes a good song of the summer. **On the song’s real-life inspirations:** “We were out \[in Los Angeles\] writing for _Talking Is Hard_, and I hit this roadblock with the song that would eventually be ‘Shut Up and Dance,’” Petricca says. “We didn’t have the chorus. So to take a break and blow off some steam, I went out with some friends to this funky soul dance party they have at this club called the Echo. And there was a girl there with a backless dress and beat-up red sneakers, and she actually told me to shut up and dance with her. So I did—and then came home and wrote the chorus.” **On why the song is resonating this time of year:** “The song has this message that can resonate with anyone—get out of your head and live in the moment,” Petricca says. “I have moments where I can’t focus or don’t feel like I’m present. The song is about getting over that, embracing whatever it is you’re too afraid to show. Get out there and wave your freak flag.” **On how it differs from their new single:** “‘Shut Up and Dance’ carried our torch of peppy indie rock from the last record, but we’re really stoked about ‘Different Colors’ because we feel that it shows a different side of us that’s equally important,” Petricca says. “That’s about taking this platform, this big megaphone that we’ve got as we get more popular to say something that’s meaningful to us. ‘Different Colors’ is all about not just tolerating each other’s differences but celebrating them and embracing them.” **On the deal with the face paint:** “It just spiraled into this tradition,” Petricca says of fans who paint their faces before Walk the Moon concerts, something they picked up from the band’s video for “Anna Sun.” “We’ve heard time and time again that people make friends out there because they don’t have face paint, so they’ve got to meet the person \[next to them\]. For us, it’s just a fun expression of that inner child.” The band has gotten smarter about their choice of materials, though. “In the early days of the face paint we used stuff that wasn’t necessarily face paint, and that was pretty gross,” says bassist Kevin Ray. Adds Petricca: “It really burned a bit.” _For more on what makes a song_ the _song of the summer, check out TIME’s annual Answers Issue, on newsstands this Friday._ ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] In the late 90s, when I finally started caring about what happened in the 80s, I was like oh, that's so dumb. It's the 80s, it's so beyond, it's so old school. and now it's like, " Give me more 80's !" [ MUSIC ] I'm not sure the 80's are having a moment right now, so much as, people are just realizing that the 80's were really good music. Do you know what I mean? It's like, hamburgers aren't having a moment. Hamburgers are just good food, you know what I mean? And that's kinda what the 80's are like, you know? And so. [ LAUGH ] The 80's just had like produced good music that we should all be digesting regularly. [ MUSIC ] I think it's taken some time for the song to kind of germinate with the masses, you know? But I think that's great, it's given us time to take it on the road and play it for people. And now that it's up there, we feel like we kinda have our own lane among the Derulo's and the Taylor Swift's, you know? Sharpened dancing is being kind of Talked about as the song of the summer. [ MUSIC ] I think for a song to become 'Song of the Summer', I think it's got to have a sense of being out in the sunshine or of freedom like getting out of school or getting out of work and driving with the windows down. [ MUSIC ] I think of Boys of Summer when you describe it like that. That's the one I go straight to. [ MUSIC ] My main experience with Trap Queen is my fiance's brother, who's staying with us for the summer, every morning Gets his little boombox and comes down to the kitchen to eat breakfast blasting [ UNKNOWN ]. [ MUSIC ] If that's not a sign of song of the summer, I don't know what is. [ MUSIC ] At this point, Taylor Swift is a little untouchable. I think her record is, put it in whatever box genre you want, it's just It's back to front, really good. [ MUSIC ] That song was all ready pretty dope and then add Kendrick and it's like, unstoppable. Out the door. [ MUSIC ] Want To Want Me is pretty. Yummy. [ MUSIC ] As soon as it comes on, I want to dance. It's undeniable and it's so much fun. [ MUSIC ] See You Again, it makes me wanna sit and think about my past and. Lost love and lost friends, which is not, like, what I wanna do while I'm playing frisbee or something in the sun, you know. [ LAUGH ] [ MUSIC ] Yeah, in short, kind of a downer for song of the summer you know, you know what I've been listening to, that I think is really great summer album, is the new Brandon Flower's record. [ MUSIC ] I just love like waking up in the morning, then putting on. I listen to it at least Twice a day to see it work. Once before bed and once right when I wake up. [ LAUGH ] See you guys at the bar. 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