Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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
Donate to benefit the Detroit-Windsor Dance Academy: detroitwindsordance.networkforgood.com/projects/137355-support-the-arts-in-detroit
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
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
Donate to benefit the Detroit-Windsor Dance Academy: detroitwindsordance.networkforgood.com/projects/137355-support-the-arts-in-detroit
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
