We’re happy to bring you the official video for Shortly’s "Dancer," off her new full length of the same name. Get ‘Dancer’ here: http://smarturl.it/shortlymi
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Credits:
Produced By: Ugly Art
Director: Elijah Crawford
Producer: Josh Walker
Director of Photography: Zach Miscavage
Assistant Director: Zoe Nebraska
Styling: Sophia Grosshauser
 
Choreography: Detroit-Windsor Dance Academy
Elderly Woman: Debra White-Hunt
Young Dancer: Michelle Ware
Male Dancer: Demi Shields
Female Dancer: Micah Grant
 
Extras: 
Usher: Alexandria Maniak
Impressed Attendee: Austin Stawowczyk
Also An Impressed Attendee: Kris Herrmann
Audience: Harry Wetzel
Quiet Man: Zayde Wagner
Standing Ovation: Alex Gene Sorenson
Audience: Jack Rossbach
Audience: Darcy Moran
Standing Ovation 2: Sarah Nedam
 
Location: Detroit Repertory Theatre
Lyrics:
When I was seventeen 
My best friend looked at me 
Said Al, I got your back 
But you gotta start eating 
I lost myself in ’15 
To someone else’s driving 
Didn’t make a big scene but 
The road took a part of me from me 
So what if we’re not afraid of living anymore It only means that we found something good to die for I’m a dancer, I know dancing 
Like the back of my hand 
I’m a dancer, Even if I can’t dance 
Was thinking God can’t be real 
But I’ve been crying wolf for a year 
My friends are on drugs again 
So stop complaining 
But then God came to my bed 
He put his foot down on my chest 
And I never stood straight again 
And I never stood straight again 
And I never stood straight again 
And I never stood straight again 
So what if we’re not afraid of dying anymore It only means that we found something good to die for I’m a dancer, I know dancing 
Like the back of my hand 
I’m a dancer, I’m a dancer 
Even if I can’t dance 
I’m a dancer, I know dancing 
Like the back of my hand, 
Even if I can’t 
Live and learn and give and take 
No Fibonacci sequence 
Fate is what you make of all your worst days I’m a dancer, I know dancing 
Like the back of my hand 
I’m a dancer, I’m a dancer 
Even if I can’t dance 
Even if I can’t dance 
Even if I can’t dance 
Even if I’m a dancer 
Even if I can’t