--- title: Taylor Swift Shake It Off Video: Supercut of All Music Video Personas description: All Tay's roles in one handy supercut canonical: https://time.com/3149408/taylor-swift-music-videos/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-20T20:59:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:37.192Z og:title: Watch All of Taylor Swift's Music Video Personas In One Supercut og:description: From ballerina to chemist to stalker og:url: https://time.com/3149408/taylor-swift-music-videos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83e77a2aee6f5ef0/69869abe13c79f0486192f6f/taylor-swift.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5760 og:image:height: 3240 og:image:alt: Taylor Swift og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch All of Taylor Swift's Music Video Personas In One Supercut twitter:description: From ballerina to chemist to stalker twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83e77a2aee6f5ef0/69869abe13c79f0486192f6f/taylor-swift.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Many Music Video Personas of Taylor Swift, From Ballerina to Stalker > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 20, 2014 8:59 PM UTC  Taylor Swift Taylor Swift Li lewei—Imaginechina by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 20, 2014 8:59 PM UTC In the new video for her ultra-poppy “Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift [takes on many roles](http://time.com/3138525/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-1989/): a b-girl, a cheerleader, a rhythmic gymnast… the list goes on. This multitude of T-Swift characters[ inspired The Daily Dot ](http://www.dailydot.com/lol/taylor-swift-music-video-personas/)to create one big supercut of ALL her music video personas. Some are very clear-cut (chemist, princess, office worker) while others are a bit more conceptual (Appalachian ingénue, Old Navy spokesmodel, Zooey Deschanel in _New Girl_.) The video includes 40 personas in total. It’s going to be impossible to pick your favorite. **LIST:** [Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and 7 Other Songs About Haters](http://time.com/3140091/taylor-swifts-shake-it-off-and-7-other-songs-about-haters/) **WATCH:** [Alexander Skarsgård Jammed with Taylor Swift on _The Giver_ Set](http://time.com/3113507/alexander-skarsgard-the-giver-taylor-swift-true-blood/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3149408/taylor-swift-music-videos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3149408/taylor-swift-music-videos/"},"headline":"The Many Music Video Personas of Taylor Swift, From Ballerina to Stalker","datePublished":"2014-08-20T20:59:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:37.192Z","description":"All Tay's roles in one handy supercut","url":"https://time.com/3149408/taylor-swift-music-videos/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Taylor Swift","Music videos","celebrity","country music","pop music","shake it off"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83e77a2aee6f5ef0/69869abe13c79f0486192f6f/taylor-swift.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83e77a2aee6f5ef0/69869abe13c79f0486192f6f/taylor-swift.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Taylor Swift","caption":"Taylor Swift","creditText":"Li lewei—Imaginechina","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3149408/taylor-swift-music-videos/","name":"The Many Music Video Personas of Taylor Swift, From Ballerina to Stalker"}}]}] ```