Worlds collide.

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Shake It Off - Vintage Motown Taylor Swift Cover ft. Von Smith

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Z.O.M.G.  I want a Sinatra version from 1960 - a huge hit, doubt.

Certainly easier to understand the words.  -The only note they missed was having the two backup singers do the cheerleader part...

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Screaming Females cover Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off"

It's like Janis Joplin had a punkish daughter.  Not a perfect arrangement, but that young lady can sing.

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Turns out there's a lot of covers out there - I've passed up two for not being different enough, and very nearly this one for not being good enough.  Less 'Hey. Hey!'s would have been nice.

Charli XCX covers Taylor Swift's Shake It Off in the Live Lounge

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Killer Kilkakon, the no-pants wonder, found this:

Sad Shake It Off.

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Okay, this cover is pure win.  I'm not familiar with an African Hipster genre, but different, has much visual and musical style.  -And then they did what they did with the cheerleader part after they'd already won...

Taylor Swift - Shake It Off - 1989 (African Hipster Version) ft. Alex Boye' & Changing Lanes

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The sister in the fright wig is otherwise hot...

SHAKE IT OFF - CHARGAUX VIOLIN COVER (KILLED IT)

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-AHEM- 

Taylor Swift - Shake It Off Disney Style

Definitely struck some gold tonight on the yootoob...

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Okay there's no end to it, apparently, of just people dancing and lipsynching versions, so this is all I'll post...

Security Forces Shake it off

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I read an article this morning about how racist the original Shake it Off video is.


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...Ooookay, the argument extended was not without merit taken on its own terms ---  but talk about a wrong reading.  I find it glaringly obvious that the visuals of the video are heavily, heavily humorous parody of various pop trends - and that Ms. Swift, who clearly likes to play dress-up, but seems rather modest, personally, was mocking her own discomfort with the blingbling look (which she rocked pretty hard, actually).  I don't know what crawling under the booty-shaking has to do with anything but humor - or rather, I do see that there's black culture and black dancers used in the joke, but think that reading anything but an attempt to humorously entertain with the fish-out-of-water image of whitest-of-white-girls Taylor Swift in a blingbling routine is really extreme, unfair, and reaching beyond all reason.

The world's more interesting for having people who are wrong in it, but there are limits....

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Joel Cross "Shake It Off" 10-03-15

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Not that anyone but me's interested, but I'm gonna leave these here, not least so I can find them later.

Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Outtakes Video #1 - The Cheerleaders (Behind The Scenes Video)

Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Outtakes Video #2 - The Ballerinas

Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Outtakes Video #3 - The Modern Dancers (Behind The Scenes Video)

Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Outtakes Video - The Animators (Behind The Scenes Video) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
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Taylor Swift – Shake It Off Outtakes Video - The Ribbon Dancers (Behind The Scenes Video) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32b8wz_taylor-swift-shake-it-off-outtakes-video-8-the-director_music (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

(Stumbled over these, and about to re-visit/try-to-win an old argument elsewhere on the nets.)