--- title: Taylor Swift Shake It Off: Lip Dub Video by Fraternity description: Taylor Swift invites Delta Sigma Phi frat brothers to concert after lip dub video of Shake It Off. canonical: https://time.com/3378024/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-delta-sigma-phi-lip-dub-video/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-15T15:01:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:11.514Z og:title: Taylor Swift Shake It Off: Lip Dub Video by Fraternity og:description: The lip dub video was good enough to earn them an invite to one of her concerts og:url: https://time.com/3378024/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-delta-sigma-phi-lip-dub-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb65f4e0a32f1777/6986a0bb3bc99982a31a505d/454102640.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2366 og:image:height: 1331 og:image:alt: 2014 MTV Video Music Awards - Roaming Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Shake It Off: Lip Dub Video by Fraternity twitter:description: The lip dub video was good enough to earn them an invite to one of her concerts twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb65f4e0a32f1777/6986a0bb3bc99982a31a505d/454102640.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Even Taylor Swift Loved This Video of Frat Bros Performing 'Shake It Off' > Sponsored content. 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Singer Taylor Swift performs onstage during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 24, 2014 in Inglewood, California.Kevin Winter—Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 15, 2014 3:01 PM UTC A casual [one hundred million people](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h%5FJM) have watched Taylor Swift’s music video for her newest single “Shake It Off” since it debuted last month. The infuriately catchy song has been in everybody’s head — including, we now know, a group of fraternity brothers at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. The Delta Sigma Phi brothers performed a spirited and well-choreographed [lip dub video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3TXVLvKHv4) that shows them ducking in and out of their fraternity’s houses many rooms. They dance, they sing, they play instruments and give off a vibe that very much suggests _forget the haters._ A link in the YouTube description also encourages viewers to donate to a [fundraising campaign](http://pages.lightthenight.org/ky/Lexingtn14/TeamTorsie) for a [Transylvania alum](https://www.facebook.com/TransylvaniaUniversityAlumni/posts/10152703528179254) suffering from lymphoma. The video is so good that T-Swift herself caught wind of it and promised to invite the bros to one of her shows: > [](https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/510518853412343808) Although if Taylor had been a hater and said mean things about the video, we’re sure these dudes would have taken her advice and shaken it off. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3378024/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-delta-sigma-phi-lip-dub-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3378024/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-delta-sigma-phi-lip-dub-video/"},"headline":"Even Taylor Swift Loved This Video of Frat Bros Performing 'Shake It Off'","datePublished":"2014-09-15T15:01:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:11.514Z","description":"The lip dub video was good enough to earn them all an invite to one of her concerts next year","url":"https://time.com/3378024/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-delta-sigma-phi-lip-dub-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Fraternity","Taylor Swift","Kentucky","celebrity","concerts","shake it off"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbb65f4e0a32f1777/6986a0bb3bc99982a31a505d/454102640.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/bltbb65f4e0a32f1777/6986a0bb3bc99982a31a505d/454102640.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2014 MTV Video Music Awards - Roaming Show","caption":"2014 MTV Video Music Awards - Roaming Show","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","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/3378024/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-delta-sigma-phi-lip-dub-video/","name":"Even Taylor Swift Loved This Video of Frat Bros Performing 'Shake It Off'"}}]}] ```