| "Shake It Off" | ||||
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| Single by Taylor Swift | ||||
| from the album 1989 | ||||
| Released | August 19, 2014 | |||
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| Genre | Dance-pop | |||
| Length | 3:39 | |||
| Label | Big Machine | |||
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| Lyricist(s) | Taylor Swift | |||
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| "Shake It Off" on YouTube | ||||
"Shake It Off" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and the lead single from her fifth studio album, 1989. She wrote the song with its producers, Max Martin and Shellback. Inspired by the media scrutiny on Swift's public image, the lyrics are about her indifference to detractors and their negative remarks. An uptempo dance-pop song, it features a looping drum beat, a saxophone line, and a handclap–based bridge. Big Machine Records released "Shake It Off" on August 19, 2014, to market 1989 as Swift's first pop album after her previous country–styled sound.
Initial reviews mostly praised the catchy production, but some criticized the lyrics as weak and shallow. Retrospectively, critics have considered "Shake It Off" an effective opener for 1989 as an album that transformed Swift's image from country to pop; it was ranked among the best songs of the 2010s decade by NME and Consequence. The single topped charts and was certified multi-platinum in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and it was certified platinum in countries across Europe, the Americas, and Asia–Pacific. In the United States, the single peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 and received a Diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Mark Romanek directed the music video for "Shake It Off", which portrays Swift as a clumsy person unsuccessfully attempting several dance moves. Critics accused the video of cultural appropriation for featuring dances associated with people of color such as twerking. Swift performed the song on three of her world tours: the 1989 World Tour (2015), the Reputation Stadium Tour (2018), and the Eras Tour (2023–2024). "Shake It Off" won Favorite Song at the 2015 People's Choice Awards and received three nominations at the 2015 Grammy Awards. Following the 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she re-recorded the song as "Shake It Off (Taylor's Version)" for her 2023 re-recorded album 1989 (Taylor's Version).