Shut Up and Let Me Go

This song about a bitter break-up was featured in an iPod and iTunes TV advert. The deal came as a result of scouts from Apple spotting the band at the South by Southwest music festival in Texas. They were so impressed, they snapped-up this song for their new campaign.

The Ting Tings are a duo, drummer Jules De Martino and singer-guitarist Katie White. White explained in an interview with Three's A Crowd that the duo were named after a former work colleague of hers: "I used to work with a girl called Ting Ting. It means an old bandstand in Mandarin Chinese, and it also means the sound of innovation and an open mind. At first we were quite blasé because we thought we'd just be naming our band to play to our friends at parties, so we didn't spend hours and hours deliberating over the name. I like it, though. I'm quite happy with it."

Katie White told Pop Justice the story of how this song came to appear on the iTunes advert: "Well what happened was that we played at SXSW and we were doing three gigs a day and I was exhausted, and I actually fainted before we were due to play for the Apple people. I managed to play three songs, then we heard that they were interested in using the song and they sent a contract through. But we weren't sure if they were sending it to twenty different bands, or just to us, or whatever. We only found out we were on the advertisement when we saw the ad on YouTube, after it had been on TV! Apparently it comes right down to Steve Jobs deciding, on the day, that he wants it on his TV ad. But until we saw it on YouTube we thought we'd lost it."