"Something to Dance For" is a song sung by

Zendaya Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman ( ; born September 1, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She has received various accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards. ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the ...

for the

soundtrack A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack o ...

''Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance''. The song was written and produced by Jeannie Lurie, Aris Archontis and Chen Neeman. It was released as a single on March 6, 2012.

Background

The song was composed by Jeannie Lurie, Aris Archontis and Chen Neeman, known to form the same partnership to compose songs like "And The Crowd Goes" by

Chris Brochu Chris Brochu (born June 25, 1989) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He was born in Washington, D.C., the older brother of Doug Brochu. He is best known as Luke Parker in ''The Vampire Diaries'' and also played Ray in ''Lemonade Mouth' ...

, for the soundtrack of ''

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'', "So Far, So Great" and "What to Do" by

Demi Lovato Demetria Devonne Lovato ( ; born August 20, 1992), known as Demi Lovato, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. After appearing on the children's television series ''Barney & Friends'' (2002–2004), Lovato rose to prominence for pl ...

for the album '' Here We Go Again'' and for the soundtrack ''

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'', "Shake It Up" by

Selena Gomez Selena Marie Gomez ( ; born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, actress and producer. Gomez began her acting career on the children's television series ''Barney & Friends'' (2002–2004). As a teenager, she rose to prominence for starring a ...

, for the soundtrack '' Shake It Up: Break It Down''. On December 3, 2011, a video in low quality was planned for a future episode of ''

Shake It Up Shake It Up may refer to: * ''Shake It Up'' (Boney James & Rick Braun album), 2000 * ''Shake It Up'' (The Cars album), 1981 ** "Shake It Up" (The Cars song), the title song * "Shake It Up" (Divine song), 1983 * "Shake It Up" (Koda Kumi song), ...

'' for the 2012 season, began to spread through the internet, which brought a small preview of the song a little over a minute. On March 6, finally, the song was officially released as a single on iTunes.

Music video

The video was released on March 9, 2012. It was a mash-up video with "

TTYLXOX "TTYLXOX (short for "Talk to You Later Hugs and Kisses", a combination of TTYL and XOX) is a song by American singer, model, and actress Bella Thorne from the soundtrack '' Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance''. It was written and produced by Jeannie Lurie, ...

". It starts with the girls' request for each other's song and then

starts to sing and dance with a group of people, then "TTYLXOX" plays with

Bella Thorne Annabella Avery Thorne (born October 8, 1997) is an American actress, singer, and writer. She first received recognition for her roles as Margaux Darling in the series ''Dirty Sexy Money'' (2007–2008) and as Ruthy Spivey in the drama series ...

dancing and singing with her group, and then finally the songs mash-up with both Zendaya and Thorne singing their songs and dancing together.

Track listings

*U.S. / Digital download #"Something to Dance For" – 3:19 *U.S. / Mash-Up download #"Something to Dance For / TTYLXOX - Mash Up" (with

)

Charts

Release history

References

External links

* {{Zendaya songs Zendaya songs 2012 singles Walt Disney Records singles 2011 songs Songs written by Jeannie Lurie Songs written by Aris Archontis Electropop songs