Taylor: "I hope they play Shake It Off at weddings"
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When Taylor Swift sat down to write her now three-time-GRAMMY-nominated hit “Shake It Off” from her “first documented official pop album,” 1989, she wanted to create a song that got people out of their shells. In an interview with Radio.com, the country singer-turned-pop star explains how the song, which she cowrote with Max Martin and Shellback, came to be.
“Writing ‘Shake It Off’ was something that I wanted to do to basically create a song that was a song for any of us who have felt like we’ve been picked on or gossiped about,” Swift says. “But I didn’t want it to seem like we had been victimized. I wanted it to come from a perspective of strength, but I also wanted it to make people dance.”
“My dream when I was writing this was, ‘I hope they play this at weddings and I hope there’s a wallflower who doesn’t want to dance, and when this song comes in she gets up and goes to the dance floor.’ I’ve heard some stories so far that that’s been happening at weddings, and it’s really nice to see it become realized,” she says with a smile.
