WHAT! you say. We've been waiting a month and he brings us a Taylor Swift song?

Well...yeah. But don't click away just yet.

Here's the thing: I want to expand the scope of the show a little bit, and recently I heard a rather high-level discussion of Swift's work on another podcast called Switched On Pop, which looks at songs and artists from a musical standpoint rather than a conceptual one. If you're not well-versed in the language of music (and I'm not), you might find some of it tough to understand (and I do), but it's still a pretty interesting show. Their look at Taylor Swift was one of their earliest episodes, so they were still looking at the 1989 album and "Shake It Off" as a new phenomenon. Anyway, they inspired me to take a modern-day look at her, a few years after her transition from Country to Pop.

And, since some people are kind of stubborn about modern-day artists, I thought it'd be a fun challenge to try and draw those folks in. Not you, of course--you're a very open-minded person. Other people.

But this was the leadoff single from her first purely pop album, and the reaction was generally positive, though there were some people who decried her turning her back on the Country music scene. And I get that--I do miss all that banjo in her music.

As promised, here's the clip of Dwayne Johnson lip-synching along with Taylor Swift:

For what it's worth, later in the show he synchs the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" to win the game. Also, Jimmy Fallon commenting that Johnson probably sings the song in his car proved to be kind of prophetic, because....

...here's Johnson in a clip from his show Ballers, which aired just a few months later. Which means he was probably learning "Shake It Off" for Lip Sync Battle around the time he shot this episode.

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