Datarock - Give it Up - Video

 Give it Up

"You got to live by the game

 You got to live by the rule

 You got to know your means and your moves"

 
"Give It Up" was actually an idea for a music video before it became a song, paraphrasing "Beat It", "Bad", the 1951 film of "West Side Story" and the 1996 film of "Romeo & Juliet". "You have a dance battle," explains Fredrik, "Where a Datarock gang meets the bad guys, and we have a dance off, and then everybody becomes the Datarock gang. And I'm like Mercutio, trying to tell Romeo to shape up, snap out of it, give it up." He continues, "Thing is, just singing a song about dancing… it's too simple. Everyone's gonna dance anyway. So it's nice to do something insane in the lyrics, like paraphrasing, you know, Romeo & Juliet!".