{"id":34477,"date":"2025-02-17T19:23:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=34477"},"modified":"2025-02-17T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T19:23:33","slug":"why-does-taylor-swift-dance-so-much-at-awards-shows-her-comments-about-why-shes-always-busting-a-move-make-me-want-to-shake-it-off-with-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=34477","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Taylor Swift Dance So Much At Awards Shows? Her Comments About Why She\u2019s Always Busting A Move Make Me Want To ‘Shake It Off\u2019 With Her"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taylor Swift is not afraid to \u201cShake It Off,\u201d and if you\u2019ve seen just about any award show \u2013 including the 2025 Grammys \u2013 you\u2019d know that to be very true. Across her career, the pop star has made headlines for busting a move at these high-profile events even when no one else is. Now, an old interview has resurfaced where she explains her unabashed dancing, and it makes me want to get down with her to any sick beat.<\/p>\n

This all came up because Swift was speaking about \u201cShake It Off\u201d and the inspirations for that song during an interview about 1989 <\/em>for Scholastic Web Chat (via tayswiftruclub). The track came to be in part because of how she dances at award shows and the attention she gets for it. However, that attention doesn\u2019t bother her one bit, as she explained while talking about why she loves to bust a move:<\/p>\n

I have like the best time dancing when people are performing. I think it\u2019s so cool that you\u2019re at this award show and there\u2019s so many cool artists up on stage and they\u2019re performing their songs, it\u2019s like you\u2019re at the best concert ever. But you\u2019re sitting there and you\u2019re in the front row of this award show and every artist is like this [makes a scowling face], like as if they\u2019re bored by it. But it\u2019s the coolest thing, those are the greatest artists out right now, they\u2019re performing for you. I just decided I would have fun with it so I\u2019m always up and dancing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She really is \u201calways up and dancing.\u201d At the Grammys this year, she could be seen jamming out to Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX and more. Heck, she even got and wore Janelle Mon\u00e1e\u2019s jacket after her energizing performance. And that was only this year.<\/p>\n

Every year, she makes headlines for this. In 2022, Swift danced with Dylan O\u2019Brien at the VMAs. In 2023, she went viral for busting a move to Demi Lovato, Shakira and more. She also notably made headlines in 2024 for dancing to Katy Perry\u2019s performance. And those are just three examples out of what feels like a countless number.<\/p>\n

To that point, the \u201cOut of the Woods\u201d singer explained that she knows she dances awkwardly, but that doesn\u2019t matter, because she\u2019s having a blast. It was that notion that inspired one of Swift\u2019s best music videos, \u201cShake It Off,\u201d as she explained:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really tall and lanky, so I look a little bit like a baby giraffe learning how to walk while I dance. So, there would be all over the internet it was like \u2018Taylor Swift looks awkward when she dances.\u2019 Like \u2018She\u2019s so bad at dancing.\u2019 And so the way I handle that now, like that criticism, is I wrote a song called \u2018Shake It Off,\u2019 and as soon as I wrote the song, I knew exactly what I wanted to do for the music video. I knew that I wanted to do an entire music video of me awkwardly, badly dancing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Following the 2025 Grammys, this clip of Swift talking about her love for dancing at these shows went viral again on TikTok thanks to swiftstorturedpoetry. Many fans took to the comments to show their support for her actions and the meaning behind them, and I think it\u2019s safe to say we want to \u201cshake it off\u201d with Taylor Swift one day:<\/p>\n

I agree with every single one of these on a spiritual level. Every time Taylor Swift has a new project, I\u2019m always dancing with joy and to the music, and I do so shamelessly, like I\u2019m at an award show with her.<\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s nice to know she\u2019s just as enthusiastic and as much of a fangirl as us. The gal loves music deeply, and that is infectious, especially when we get to see her show it through her award-show dance moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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