--- title: Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' Gets a Mellow Cover description: Joel Cross puts out a mellow coffee shop take on Swift's hit song. canonical: https://time.com/4060562/joel-cross-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/ author: Tanya Basu article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-04T14:40:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:34.091Z og:title: Listen to This Mellow Cover of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' og:description: It's going to be on repeat. og:url: https://time.com/4060562/joel-cross-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/ 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: Listen to This Mellow Cover of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' twitter:description: It's going to be on repeat. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Listen to This Mellow Cover of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off'  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Oct 4, 2015 2:40 PM UTC  by [Tanya Basu](https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/)  ## Tanya Basu Oct 4, 2015 2:40 PM UTC Ryan Adams, you’ve got some Taylor Swift-covering competition. Joel Cross, an artist whose voice has been described soulful and appears on Youtube as [“Skuitarist,”](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE9X4MtaHBpCvubnZEjFjYg) was at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens on Saturday and decided to take on Swift’s iconic song “Shake It Off.” He prefaced the video by saying that he wasn’t necessarily used to doing covers of Taylor Swift, but launched into a calming, soothing take on the singer’s first single from her hit _1989_ that took the pop song into new territory. Think Sunday morning, coffee shop, zen-like soundtrack. No word from Swift’s camp on Cross’s take. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4060562/joel-cross-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4060562/joel-cross-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/"},"headline":"Listen to This Mellow Cover of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off'","datePublished":"2015-10-04T14:40:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:34.091Z","description":"It's going to be your new Sunday morning track","url":"https://time.com/4060562/joel-cross-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","viral","Taylor Swift"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanya Basu","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/"}],"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/4060562/joel-cross-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/","name":"Listen to This Mellow Cover of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off'"}}]}] ```