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Florence and the Machine

"Shake It Out"

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October 19, 2011

Florence Welch continues her superhero morph from arty rocker to pop diva with this mighty single. "All of the ghouls come out to play/And every demon wants his pound of flesh," she sings over a pregnant drone, like Glinda the Good Witch about to be very bad, indeed.

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