1- Dane is Jesper King. Dane recorded some works at the end of the 90s with… Read Full Bio ↴1- Dane is Jesper King. Dane recorded some works at the end of the 90s with the production of Peter Hartmann and Jan Langhoff.
Singles: "Mystery Girl" and "Walking On Sunshine".

2- Dane is Dane Bawers.

3- A prolific demoscene coder, graphic artist, and musician from Sweden. Dane is a member of Booze Design, and is a former member of Crest, Triad, Twilight, and Unity.

4- Dane is Dane Petersen from Love,Robot and heirsound. Also known as Dane Christopher.

Shut Up
Dane Lyrics

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(Forget about it)
(Forget about it)

Want to make somebody act the fool
How could anyone put up with you
I can't believe what I let you do
Let me remind you (baby we're through)

If someone asks me how I finally found
Just how quickly you made the rounds
You make me sick when you come around
You're just a cheap trick and you can't be down

My honey knows what I like
She damn sure loves me right
The way she touches me like a man has never been played
And I can't go on without her
So leave me alone (baby), yeah

Baby, baby, forget about it
You ain't getting none of this no more
'Cause I've already forgot about this, forget about me
(Forget about it)
Shut up and forget about it
Get up off your knees baby
I got a girl that gives me what I need
So girl forget about it

(Forget about it)
You know something I've realized, babe
I was also hypnotized and
It wasn't true and you can't deny it
Yes you lied (oh)

Even when my friends advise me (advise me)
Used to tell me you'd be defiant (defiant)
Loving you was a waste of time
Now I got a girl that wants to be mine

My honey (oh) knows what I like
She damn sure loves me right
She way she touches me like a man has never been played
And I can't go on without her
Just leave me alone (baby)

Baby, baby, forget about it
You ain't getting none of this no more
'cause I've already forgot about this, forget about me (oh)
Shut up and forget about it
(Forget about it)
Get up off your knees (oh baby)
I got a girl that gives me what I need
So girl forget about it

It's too late, I don't want to see your face
Got me a new thing, baby
So get lost, I don't want to take your calls
Stop giving me your heart too
Girl you got to return the keys
I bought that car give it back to me
Just move on, and forget about me
(Move on and forget about me, oh)

Baby, baby, forget about it
(Girl, you ain't getting none of this no more)
You ain't getting none of this no more
(Oh) 'cause I've already forgot about this
(Oh forget about me) forget about me
(Oh) Shut up and forget about (forget about it) it
Get up off your knees
Baby, I got a girl that gives me what I need
So girl forget about it

(Just forget about it)
Baby, baby, forget about it
You ain't getting none of this (just forget about it) no more
'cause I've already forgot about this, forget about me (forget about me)
Shut up and forget about it
(Oh) Get up off your knees

Baby, I got a girl that gives me what I need
So girl forget about it

Overall Meaning

In "Shut Up...and Forget About It," Dane Bowers addresses a past lover who has lost their chance with him. He begins the song by expressing his disbelief at how he let the person treat him, and how foolish they acted. He then goes on to reveal that he has found someone else who treats him much better and satisfies his needs, and that his ex should just forget about him and move on.

The song has a sense of empowerment and control, as Bowers makes it clear that he is the one who has decided to move on, and that his ex should do the same. It also has a sense of closure, as Bowers is letting go of past hurt and focusing on his new happiness with someone who treats him well.

Line by Line Meaning

Want to make somebody act the fool
I want to cause someone to behave foolishly

How could anyone put up with you
I can't imagine how anyone could tolerate you

I can't believe what I let you do
I'm surprised that I allowed you to treat me poorly

Let me remind you (baby we're through)
I want to inform you that our relationship is over

If someone asks me how I finally found
If someone inquires about how I eventually discovered

Just how quickly you made the rounds
How rapidly you dated multiple people

You make me sick when you come around
Your presence disgusts me

You're just a cheap trick and you can't be down
You are a low-quality person and are not trustworthy

My honey knows what I like
My girlfriend understands my preferences

She damn sure loves me right
She surely loves me appropriately

The way she touches me like a man has never been played
The way she touches me is like I have never experienced before

And I can't go on without her
I cannot continue living without her

So leave me alone (baby), yeah
Please depart from my life

Baby, baby, forget about it
Please forget about our relationship

You ain't getting none of this no more
You will no longer be receiving any of my attention

'Cause I've already forgot about this, forget about me
I have already moved on and forgot about you and this relationship

(Forget about it)
Please forget about our past

Shut up and forget about it
Please stop talking about it and move on

Get up off your knees baby
Please stop begging for my forgiveness

I got a girl that gives me what I need
I am in a new relationship that fulfills my desires

So girl forget about it
Please forget about me and move on

You know something I've realized, babe
I have come to a realization

I was also hypnotized and
I was also influenced strongly

It wasn't true and you can't deny it
Our relationship was not genuine, and you cannot argue otherwise

Yes you lied (oh)
You were dishonest with me

Even when my friends advise me (advise me)
Even when my friends gave me counsel

Used to tell me you'd be defiant (defiant)
They warned that you would be resistant and rebellious

Loving you was a waste of time
Investing my affection in you was futile

Now I got a girl that wants to be mine
I am now with someone who desires to be in a relationship with me

It's too late, I don't want to see your face
It is no use, I do not wish to encounter you

Got me a new thing, baby
I have a new relationship

So get lost, I don't want to take your calls
Please do not attempt to contact me anymore

Stop giving me your heart too
Please stop trying to win my affection again

Girl you got to return the keys
You must give me back the car keys I gave you

I bought that car give it back to me
I am the legal owner of the car, so return it to me

Just move on, and forget about me
Please move on from me and forget about our relationship

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: HARVEY JAY MASON, DANE LEON BEN BOWERS, DAMON E. THOMAS

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Comments from YouTube:

@CosmicFrenzy

7y↑35

This legit used to be my favourite song, and I'd dance like an idiot when it came on on a music channel... Good God...

@thuglife6703

3y↑23

This guy was so underrated

@arriealexis

2024 here

@deedee8678

25w↑2

Had to rock the song in 2023 this song so good❤ so many memories 😢

@olaraay

8y↑16

this was the beats of the naughties

@Claire-fg2rf

4y↑5

Used to love this one. And Dane. Have no idea why I just thought of this hidden gem, but still as good as the first time I heard it!! 👏

@babycakes1213

4y↑5

Wow how comes I am hearing this song now ... Sick track 😍😍

@davehanley4776

4y↑1

It come out in 2001 good old days

@babycakes1213

@@davehanley4776 I know I didn't realize until i looked underneath it

@davehanley4776

4y↑1

@@babycakes1213 God 19 years a go I was 20 😭

@mikekaraoke

Where you from exactly then?

@babycakes1213

@@mikekaraoke Sheffield

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@AlexClarke619

8y↑31

The underdogs produced this track and they sounded like the Darkchild production in the early 2000s

@ais3566

6y↑1

this sounds like tyrese i like them girls...bot sound like darkchild productions

@Chrizmooo

4y↑3

I think it sounds like the underdogs they created loads of songs around 2001-2002 with this sound. Check out Olivia "you've got the damn thing I like", exactly the same sound.

@shh711

@Fabian81 I feel like the minimal media outlets at the time is why he isn't heralded as a creator of an era.

@almazhasseyn

Cool dancers, good memories! Hi from Russia 2000-x!

@neilstorton146

4y↑2

superb track

@davehanley4776

3y↑1

Good old days not like today

@DaneBowersCowboyHat

11y↑1

OMFG Bwahahahahhah!!! LOL!!!!! WOW!!!! I needed that hearty morning laugh!

@davidhanley1962

6y↑4

Was my jam😁

@twindram21

6y↑4

Early naughties fashion was the bomb! Baggy combats, bright white superstars, long sleeved jumpers..... so much better than the shit we habe now!

@fajarzakri4936

True ... there was rawness to the approach that felt endearing. Everything is too slick and prim now.

@davehanley4776

4y↑1

Wow 19 years a go

@magicmoonlight

14y

Thanks for sharing Wolf =) can't shut up and forget about me ... lol ;)

@davehanley4776

4y↑1

2020 hit like 👍

@IceKoldAuto

5y↑1

reminds me of cry me a river or cry me a river reminds of this

@gemmalouw3925

Tracks Nevoy except this was before “cry me a river” both great songs though

@patrice58

12y↑1

This tune is big even now! Ah the memories.

@davidhanley1962

5y↑3

2019

@orton900

12y↑3

This is amazing!

@heatherpullan9519

Tuuuunnneee!!

@DaneBowersCowboyHat

11y↑2

I know. I shoulda been in pictures, huh? Thats what my father said, too! He scoffed at the music industry & when I got the Bowers' gig, I raced him excitedly to tell him! Imagine how piecing the blow when he simply chortled & said "When I was your age, I was being shot off the top of Mr. Eastwood's head in the classics! They didn't use stunt hats back then! Psh I raised a pantywaste!" I tried to brush it off, but we were never close after that. Then he died of brim cancer. So I am alone, adrift.

@thecoyotespeaks9649

6y↑22

This was before Dane Bowers ate all his dancers

@todayyesterday

Oh my gosh Stop lol

@fearfiaz

13y

big up to dancer Eszteca!

@spikegonzales873

11y

There I go, putting my foot in it again. I didn't know Mr Hat, or are you a Miss Hat? I haven't even asked your name. I apologise, I don't know if this makes you feel better but I googled 'Bomb Diggy' & found this snippet from a Royston DeLang - 'Bowers' hat is striking & gives a tour de force performance in Bomb Diggy. It stays firmly atop Bowers' head with effortless apomb as Dane performs some his most accomplished dance routines yet'. You made your mark. I hope your father can see that.

@poplova

11y↑1

well the same applies to my brother. his ex was always too good for him

@farky42

Hahahahha

@Willlll1m

I actually used to quite like the song checked Spotify but it's not there only a remix

@R0BCRAM

4y↑1

What with Buggin he seems to not keep the girls for too long. A true Lothario.

@fajarzakri4936

3y↑1

He's a Sagittarius after all 😌

@KaydeyRai

6y↑6

‘Shut up and forget about it’ it’s ok Dane, most people already have

@SL-ud7tf

🤣

@lorrainemorgan833

4y↑3

wasn't this song about jordan aka katie price???

@davehanley4776

Yes

@itsjemmabond

Yes, she confirmed it in her book.

@marvinbrown2356

1y↑1

He did have a half decent singing voice but half decent could get you a hit record then that just goes to show you how the rest of the world saw England and the best we could offer back then...........thank god Craig David came along a little later with his S..t show & he had platinum albums!

@DaneBowersCowboyHat

11y↑2

I'm terribly sorry, but who are you? If my name didn't give it away, I'm Mr. Bowers' retired cowboy hat. I escaped his cranium after a drunken brawl he had circa his Upper Street days. What a mess. I do apologize. See, I was a complete lush for all of Another Level & much of Dane's subsequent work. I don't recall the evening you harrowingly chronicled, but I don't recall much from the past 15 years... Sad. I grew up idolizing stars like Dane, & I end up a lowly fart & puke receptacle!? Sigh...

@Irishpete1000

Dane your a legend but whom is that half cast-lady, she a babe mate😎

@patrice58

7y↑2

Peter Dolan You mean mixed race girl yeah? SMH.

@mikekaraoke

2y↑1

@@patrice58 I know this was 5 very long years ago, but how about Coffee lol

@patrice58

@@mikekaraoke Lol I'm still here. 👍 Well he could have said coffee coloured woman but that would sound odd. Who's that light skinned girl or brown skinned girl that would be better. Half cast is an incredibly old fashioned way of describing mixed-race people. Anyway the song is still a banger. 😁😉

@mikekaraoke

2y↑2

@@patrice58 Very good to know lol
Where you from? 😁

Never said about saying: coffee coloured woman just coffee 😉

Yea half cast is an old fashioned term!

Yep the song/video is still a banger 🕺🏻🎶

@patrice58

2y↑1

@@mikekaraoke I'm from the United Kingdom and what about youself? Lol touché about the coffee. 😁

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@Pete-xi5my

14y↑2

i want those shades... anybody know of a designer who makes a similar design?

@davidhanley1962

Yes d.g

@IndiesoulMusik

18w

Is this the son of Christopher Cross?? Looks and sounds just like his dad especially in the high register.

@steamyboy69

I think Dane is wearing a pair of Chanel sunglasses

@tommygan2211

2y↑1

Nic : guys UU I got a lot
U go enjoyed
I NO NEED U SAVE
IM NOT WEAK ✓

@DaneBowersCowboyHat

11y↑2

No, it wasn't you. Fate put me in Mr. Bowers' path & fate extracted me. I was laid out w wardrobe for the Bomb Diggy video shoot & when Mr. Bowers passed by to inspect, I inched up to the front & made sure I was extra tall & hat-like! Oh, when I was plopped atop his dome, how I beamed! & there I remained for nearly a decade til my boozing got so out of control *I* puked all over Dane's beautiful, sable-hued locks! That was the final straw, I was kicked to the curb! Now I wander this earth alone.

@osbert

lol

@thepopfiles4294

9y↑2

You'd never guess now that the girl is the vid was supposed to look like Jordan (Katie Price)

@sanctuarysharon6413

just reading about this song being about her in her autobiography Being Jordan

@clevergamer6704

7y↑1

any idea ho the angry woman is? she's hot

@genie121

11y↑1

Dane Bowers... lol

@PedroVallesPVC

35w

@poplova

11y↑1

going out with who? dane bowers or my bro lmao

@genie121

11y

and what was she thinking?..

@afrochaltey

3y↑3

And I used to think this song was cool. Oh the puberty.

@Mandon97

10y↑1

who is that asian dancer?

@clevergamer6704

he's pretty cool right?

@Mandon97

I remember him from the S Club 7 tour, and some early Spice Girs tour.

@clevergamer6704

oh shit, yeah you're right! one of the very few asians in the industry

@Mandon97

2y↑1

@@clevergamer6704 I think his name is Takao Baba. A Japanese dancer.

@poplova

12y↑1

my brother's ex girlfriend used to go out with him

@davehanley4776

Ok🤔

@chepebeto3876

25w

He was kinda like Justin Timberlake and way better than any of the westlife guys solo or together. What’s wrong with UK people?

@spikegonzales873

11y↑1

I'm sorry Mr Hat. It was probably me that ended your career on top of his head. I can't see Dane taking a hat full of fart & puke to the dry cleaners so it could sit on his head once again. I apologise from the bottom of my heart. It was no disrespect to you, Mr Hat. It wasn't a hate crime against hats. I understand you can't help who's head you end up on or been made. It's out of your control. I just wanted £5, to impress me mates & show up Dane. Seems like I ruined your life. I'm sorry.

@spikegonzales873

11y

I bet you were so proud the day you got picked. It's like getting picked first in sports at school only in the major leagues of show business & for hats! Though please stop me if I'm wrong but perhaps it was for the best? You didn't belong in Dane Bowers / Jordan sex tapes & may I say even in Bomb Diggy. A hat like you was made for Hollywood, you should've sat on top of the heads of John Wayne, Gary Cooper, & Clint Eastwood. Are you alone now? I have a hat stand that would love to keep you.