--- title: Watch a Kids Hospital Perform the Most Heartwarming Taylor Swift Lip Synch Ever description: Both patients and staff get in on the action canonical: https://time.com/3745393/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-kids-hospital/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-16T00:36:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:41.302Z og:title: Watch a Kids Hospital Perform the Most Heartwarming Taylor Swift Lip Synch Ever og:description: Both patients and staff get in on the action og:url: https://time.com/3745393/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-kids-hospital/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Kids Hospital Perform the Most Heartwarming Taylor Swift Lip Synch Ever twitter:description: Both patients and staff get in on the action twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Kids Hospital Perform the Most Heartwarming Taylor Swift Lip Synch Ever by [Kathy Ehrich Dowd / People](/author/people/) ## Kathy Ehrich Dowd / People Mar 16, 2015 12:36 AM CUT by [Kathy Ehrich Dowd / People](/author/people/) ## Kathy Ehrich Dowd / People Mar 16, 2015 12:36 AM CUT Prepare yourself for the most touching version of “Shake it Off” ever. In an era that has brought us a [jovial cop](http://www.people.com/article/dover-police-officer-dance-taylor-swift-shake-it-off-video "undefined") and [dancing frat brothers](http://www.people.com/article/frat-boys-lib-dub-taylor-swift-shake-it-off "undefined") offering their renditions of the [Taylor Swift](http://www.people.com/people/taylor%5Fswift "undefined") mega-hit, comes a video from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia that will melt your heart. “Our incredible team of Child Life Specialists, Child Activity Coordinators, Music and Art Therapists, teachers and dedicated volunteers have created something really special and fun to celebrate and spread awareness for #ChildLifeMonth!” CHOP [wrote on its Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/ChildrensHospitalofPhiladelphia "undefined") while releasing the video Thursday evening. The Child Life Team specializes in helping children cope with stressful aspects of their hospital stays, [reports ABC 6](http://6abc.com/health/watch-patients-shake-it-off-at-chop/556167/ "undefined") in Philadelphia. The video features an assortment of kids hamming it up for the camera, some lip synching to the song from their hospital beds with medical equipment attached to their bodies. Various hospital staff members get in on the action, as well as one diminutive pooch who can be seen appropriately shaking (it off) on command. We dare you not to get teary upon viewing. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/shake-it-off-childrens-hospital-philadelphia "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_PEOPLE.com_](http://www.people.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3745393/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-kids-hospital/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3745393/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-kids-hospital/"},"headline":"Watch a Kids Hospital Perform the Most Heartwarming Taylor Swift Lip Synch Ever","datePublished":"2015-03-16T00:36:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:41.302Z","description":"Both patients and staff get in on the action","url":"https://time.com/3745393/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-kids-hospital/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kathy Ehrich Dowd / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/3745393/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-kids-hospital/","name":"Watch a Kids Hospital Perform the Most Heartwarming Taylor Swift Lip Synch Ever"}}]}] ```