The first single from 1989, "Shake It Off" finds Taylor Swift dismissing her haters. The song was inspired by how the country-pop princess has learned to deal with all the false rumors that have circulated since her 2012 Red album. "I've had to learn a pretty tough lesson in the past couple years that people can say whatever they want about at any time, and we cannot control that," said Swift. "The only thing we can control is our reaction to that... You can either let it get to you... [or] you just shake it off." Taylor's 2011 single "Mean" previously found her taking aim at her critics.
The song originated from Swift learning to overcome her fear of not being accepted. "I think it kind of takes not caring what people think about you a step further to kind of locking the fact that people don't get you," she explained to BBC Radio 1's Breakfast Show. "Kind of taking pride in the fact that you know you are and it honestly doesn't matter if someone else doesn't want to understand you. We go through these scenarios in so many different phrases of our lives, no matter what it is."
The phrase "shake it off" shows up 36 times in this song, mostly in the chorus. "Shake" appears 70 times.
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