Shake It Off

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• The music video received mixed reception, and was additionally criticized for the twerking scene.
• "Shake It Off" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week ending September 6, 2014, becoming Swift's second number one single in the United States.
• Regarding the video Swift has said, “We had twerking, which was so funny. Those girls were trying to teach me how, and it's just never gonna happen. I tried really hard.”
• Taylor Alison Swift was born December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania.
• Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music.
• She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house.
• Swift is the youngest ever Album of the Year winner.
• Swift's achievements include seven Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, eleven Country Music Association Awards and seven Academy of Country Music Awards.
• At the age of eleven, after many failed attempts,[21] Swift won a local talent competition by singing a rendition of LeAnn Rimes's "Big Deal", and was given the opportunity to appear as the opening act for Charlie Daniels at a Strausstown amphitheater.
• When Swift was fourteen, her father transferred to the Nashville office of Merrill Lynch and the family relocated to a lakefront house in Hendersonville, Tennessee. "My parents took all the pressure off by saying, 'We're just moving because we love the area, so don't worry.'
• Shania Twain, both as a songwriter and performer, was her biggest musical influence. Influences also include Faith Hill, the Dixie Chicks, Miranda Lambert, Dwight Yoakam, George Strait,[ Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, Alan Jackson, Martina McBride, LeAnn Rimes, Tim McGraw and Brad Paisley.