--- title: Taylor Swift Just Trademarked 'This Sick Beat' description: She has also applied for several other trademarks on song lyrics canonical: https://time.com/3686779/taylor-swift-trademark-lyrics/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-28T22:33:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:57:43.111Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Taylor Swift Just Trademarked 'This Sick Beat' og:description: She has also applied for several other trademarks on song lyrics og:url: https://time.com/3686779/taylor-swift-trademark-lyrics/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00a69b3da57cafb8/69877c73e53aba00174d7480/taylorswift1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Celebrity Sightings In New York City - January 17, 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Just Trademarked 'This Sick Beat' twitter:description: She has also applied for several other trademarks on song lyrics twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00a69b3da57cafb8/69877c73e53aba00174d7480/taylorswift1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift Just Trademarked 'This Sick Beat' by [Miles Raymer / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Miles Raymer / Entertainment Weekly Jan 28, 2015 10:33 PM UTC  Taylor Swift in TriBeCa on Jan. 17, 2015 in New York City. Taylor Swift in TriBeCa on Jan. 17, 2015 in New York City.Alessio Botticelli—GC Images/Getty Images by [Miles Raymer / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Miles Raymer / Entertainment Weekly Jan 28, 2015 10:33 PM UTC Nothing says Taylor Swift like fun times within tightly defined, strictly patrolled parameters, and the reigning queen of pop music–who rules the realm of modern media with an iron fist decorated with kitty stickers–has a cool new way for you to use some of her catchiest catch phrases: only with her explicit permission, under threat of legal action. A recent filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office shows that Swift has applied to trademark several phrases from lyrics to her album 1989, including “Party like it’s 1989,” “‘Cause we never go out of style,” and the notorious [“This sick beat”](http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:dn4ox2.2.1) line from her rapped bridge on “Shake It Off.” This means that if you were planning on selling “This Sick Beat” shirts on Etsy, you should probably scrap them or face Swift’s super perky, _toootally_ chill legal wrath. You might want to stay away from [riffing on Beyoncé](http://www.essence.com/2015/01/24/beyonc%C3%A9-goes-after-etsy-selling-feyonce-mugs/) too. _This_ [_article_](http://www.music-mix.ew.com/2015/01/28/taylor-swift-this-sick-beat-trademark) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](www.ew.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3686779/taylor-swift-trademark-lyrics/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3686779/taylor-swift-trademark-lyrics/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Just Trademarked 'This Sick Beat'","datePublished":"2015-01-28T22:33:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:57:43.111Z","description":"She has also applied for several other trademarks on song lyrics","url":"https://time.com/3686779/taylor-swift-trademark-lyrics/","keywords":["Music","Taylor Swift","shake it off"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00a69b3da57cafb8/69877c73e53aba00174d7480/taylorswift1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Miles Raymer / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00a69b3da57cafb8/69877c73e53aba00174d7480/taylorswift1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - January 17, 2015","caption":"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - January 17, 2015","creditText":"Alessio Botticelli—GC Images/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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3686779/taylor-swift-trademark-lyrics/","name":"Taylor Swift Just Trademarked 'This Sick Beat'"}}]}] ```