Shut up

"Shut up" is a direct command with a meaning very similar to "be quiet"', but which is commonly perceived as a more forceful command to stop making noise or otherwise communicating, such as talking. The phrase is probably a shortened form of "shut up your mouth" or "shut your mouth up". Its use is generally considered rude and impolite.

Initial meaning and development

Before the twentieth century, the phrase "shut up" was rarely used as an imperative, and had a different meaning altogether. To say that someone was "shut up" meant that they were locked up, quarantined, or held prisoner. For example, several passages in the King James Version of the Bible instruct that if a priest determines that a person shows certain symptoms of illness, "then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days". This meaning was also used in the sense of closing something, such as a business, and it is also from this use that the longer phrase "shut up your mouth" likely originated.

Shut Up (And Give Me Whatever You Got)

"Shut Up (And Give Me Whatever You Got)" is a song recorded by British singer Amelia Lily. It was released on 20 January 2013, as her second single, Lily revealed that the track was a stronger release compared to her debut, citing that the track highlighted her attitude, vocals and a representation as an artist. The song was written by Brian Higgins, Luke Fitton, Tim Deal, Matt Gray, Miranda Cooper, Brooke Gengras, Tim Powell, Toby Scott, Owen Parker and Joshua Jenkin.

Background

"Shut Up (And Give Me Whatever You Got)" was the first song Lily ever recorded in the studio. Behind the meaning of the track, Lily revealed; "I wanted to do a ‘girl power’ song, a basically girls could listen to it and be like ‘Yeah, I can stand up for myself, I’m a strong independent woman.’ That’s what I wanted to get out of this song was for girls to feel like they could relate to it." In late October 2012, she revealed to Yahoo! News the title of the single and said it was a lot darker than her previous single. On 2 November 2012, the single premiered via a lyric video which was upload to her official YouTube channel. The artwork for the single, which sees LiIy striking a pose, while an alternative black and white head shot of herself is placed over her face, was released on 12 December 2012.

Shut Up (Kelly Osbourne album)

Shut Up is the debut album of Kelly Osbourne. After its failure and her consequent drop from Epic Records, the album was re-released in 2003 as Changes, featuring her and her father Ozzy's cover of the Black Sabbath song "Changes". The album is also known for featuring Osbourne's cover of Madonna's song "Papa Don't Preach".

Reception

Shut Up received mixed reviews by critics. People magazine said "it takes a whole lot more than the right pedigree and the right haircut to make credible punk rock." The album had sold 155,000 copies in the U.S. by September 11, 2003, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Track listing

All songs written by Kelly Osbourne & PowerPack, except where noted.

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Zodiac

In both astrology and historical astronomy, the zodiac (Greek: ζῳδιακός, zōidiakos) is a circle of twelve 30° divisions of celestial longitude that are centered upon the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year. The paths of the Moon and visible planets also remain close to the ecliptic, within the belt of the zodiac, which extends 8-9° north or south of the ecliptic, as measured in celestial latitude. Because the divisions are regular, they do not correspond exactly to the boundaries of the twelve constellations after which they are named.

Historically, these twelve divisions are called signs. Essentially, the zodiac is a celestial coordinate system, or more specifically an ecliptic coordinate system, which takes the ecliptic as the origin of latitude, and the position of the Sun at vernal equinox as the origin of longitude.

Usage

The zodiac was in use by the Roman era, based on concepts inherited by Hellenistic astronomy from Babylonian astronomy of the Chaldean period (mid-1st millennium BC), which, in turn, derived from an earlier system of lists of stars along the ecliptic. The construction of the zodiac is described in Ptolemy's vast 2nd century AD work, the Almagest.

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