"It was so much fun. I woke up every day of that shoot and couldn't wait to get to set," Swift tells Rolling Stone about the video shoot. "We had twerking, which was so funny. Those girls were trying to teach me how, and it's just never gonna happen. I tried really hard. They were teaching me what they do, and there's like a science to it – they're like digging their heels into the floor without you seeing their legs move, but their butts' moving. It's mind-blowing to me. They were explaining it all to me, and it's so above my comprehension of how to understand your body."
As for the video's concept, which finds Swift unable to master the art of moshing and ballet among other dance moves, Swift says, "It takes a long time to figure out who you are and where you fit in in the world. I'm putting myself in all these awkward situations where the dancers are incredible, and I'm having fun with it, but not fitting in. They're doing the most beautiful things, and I'm being embarrassingly bad at it. It shows you to keep doing you, keep being you, keep trying to figure out where you fit in in the world, and eventually you will."
Brian Mansfield, Special for USA TODAY
"I never miss a beat," Taylor Swift sings on Shake It Off, the lead single from her forthcoming fifth album, which has a can't-stop-won't-stop beat so massive it's positively inescapable.
Lyrically, Shake It Off is Mean 2.0, with the 24-year-old singer/songwriter taking all the criticisms leveled at her and dismissing them flippantly. It's a total swerve musically, however, with horn-blast grooves grounded in early '60s proto-soul and girl-group pop, plus a spoken-word breakdown that would come off as awkward if it weren't so knowingly funny.
Hate me all you want, Swift seems to be saying, but you're missing all the fun.
not y'all thinking Taylor is gay
one in HK & one in US
Ready for this era of radio domination.
