Songfacts®:

• Born and raised in Accra, Ghana, Moliy has a musical sensibility that carries the humidity of both West Africa and South Florida, where she lived after turning 18. Her sound is what people call "Afrofusion," which essentially means she picks the best bits from Afrobeat, pop, soul, dancehall, and whatever else is lying around, and stirs it all into something fresh and distinctly hers.
  
  Moliy first popped onto the global radar after featuring on Amaarae's 2020 song "Sad Girlz Luv Money" alongside Kali Uchis. The track charted worldwide, and she found herself becoming a bit of a star.
  
  "Shake it to the Max (FLY)" is a collaboration with the South Florida-based Jamaican dancehall producer Silent Addy.
• "Shake It to the Max (FLY)," is exactly the sort of song you'd want playing while doing anything mildly celebratory: dancing in your room, trying on an outfit you can't afford, or pretending your kitchen is a music video set. It's a self-confidence anthem for the rest of us, with lyrics that shout empowerment but still manage to feel breezy: "I wanna fly, hands in the sky," Moliy sings, followed closely by the sort of dance-floor instructions you'd get from a very supportive aerobics instructor: "Go and bend your back, go and bend your knees, baby shake it to the max."
• The song is not so much a narrative as it is a manifesto. There are mentions of being "number 1 in command," "dressed to kill," and refusing to wait for anyone's approval Silent Addy and his fellow Jamaican producer Disco Neil give it all a potent dose of Afro-dancehall bounce, and the result is a track that makes you want to book a tropical holiday.
• Released on December 3, 2024, the song quickly blew up on TikTok with a dance challenge and thousands of videos using it as a soundtrack.
• The song got a dancehall-heavy remix in early 2025 featuring dancehall stars Skillibeng and Shenseea. Skillibeng had already made a splash by hopping on the remix of Tyla's "Jump." The new version of the track took the original's celebratory vibe and turned it up several degrees: the temperature of a good street party in Kingston.
• "Shake It To The Max" came together over the course of a year through a series of spontaneous collaborations and long-distance sessions.
  
  "I was in Orlando when I first connected with Tejiri - he'd worked with Tems on 'Wait For U,' and I'd found him on Instagram," Moliy told Billboard. "I reached out like, 'Hey, let's work,' and we tried to make it happen. I even flew to LA to link up. Then he hit me again saying he'd be in Miami working with a bunch of producers - Mr. NaisGai, who works with Rauw Alejandro, plus Silent Addy and Disco Neil - and told me to pull up. At the time, they were working on songs for other artists, but we figured, 'Why not create something for Moliy, too?' So we just vibed and made records together."
  
  "After three separate sessions, we landed on a few songs, and in the final one - around August - we made 'Shake It to the Max.' At that point in 2024, I hadn't released anything solo, so my manager, Therese Jones, and I were brainstorming ways to build momentum. She suggested teasing some tracks, so I posted snippets of three or four songs on Instagram. When I added 'Shake It to the Max,' I remember thinking, this one's kind of a vibe.
  
  Funny enough, no one specifically called that one out right away. But I kept making TikToks using the song, experimenting with how I posted. That's when it started to take off."