Shake It Off (Commentary)

We are celebrating the many milestones of Taylor Swift And right now we're looking at her album 1989 Which is celebrating its fourth year of release And I remeber when she relised the first single of this album, "Shake it Off" People... Went... Nuts... It was so different for Taylor and yet it was such an amazing song And the video, I mean, let's talk about that video So fun, so hilarious. I loved her in the ballerina outfit And Taylor explains what "Shake it Off" is all about to her "Shake it Off" is a song that I wrote about Having to deal with on an everyday basis just kind how human beings treat eachother It's not just me who has to deal with it It's everybody out there living their lives You know, this feeling of humiliation is the same when A girl has a rumor spread around about her at school that isn't true Is the same feeling I feel when I am checking out at the groceries store And I read some crazy headline about me And I think that the way we have to deal with those issues is the same You have to learn to have a sense of humor about things after a while Or else you're just living an endless sea of resentment, and bitterness, and "why are people doing this to me?" And rather than writing a song that was vitimized in nature I wanted to write a song that was joyful And gives people a way to cope with whateve amounts of ridiculousness life is doling out to them But also makes 'em wanna dance Yeah, this song definitely makes you wanna dance It's "Shake it Off" of 1989, on Big Machine Radio