--- title: Taylor Swift 1989 Album: Kelly Clarkson Covers Shake It Off description: Tay totally loved it canonical: https://time.com/3541157/kelly-clarkson-covers-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-27T14:37:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:05.008Z og:title: Watch Kelly Clarkson Perform a Gorgeous Cover of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' og:description: Tay totally loved it. og:url: https://time.com/3541157/kelly-clarkson-covers-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf739865e522026c/698762e6a988ca37a46aa0e6/455087610.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Kelly Clarkson og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Kelly Clarkson Perform a Gorgeous Cover of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' twitter:description: Tay totally loved it. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf739865e522026c/698762e6a988ca37a46aa0e6/455087610.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kelly Clarkson Performs a Soulful Gospel Version of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 27, 2014 2:37 PM UTC  Kelly Clarkson performs at the 8th Annual ACM Honors at the Ryman Auditorium on Sept. 9, 2014 in Nashville. Kelly Clarkson performs at the 8th Annual ACM Honors at the Ryman Auditorium on Sept. 9, 2014 in Nashville.Jason Davis—Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 27, 2014 2:37 PM UTC Everybody — especially Kelly Clarkson, we now know — has been _super_ pumped for today’s release of Taylor Swift’s [new album, ](http://time.com/3533569/taylor-swift-1989-review/)[_1989_](http://time.com/3533569/taylor-swift-1989-review/)_._ At a concert in Buffalo, NY, this weekend, Clarkson treated fans to a cover of “Shake It Off,” Swift’s ultra-catchy forget-the-haters anthem from the new album. She starts off with a very soulful, stripped-down, Clarksonian take on the tune before launching into the song’s original, dancey mode during the chorus. Fans were, of course, really into it, as was Tay herself: > [](https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/526201202275803136) Now we just have to wait patiently until Clarkson covers _all_ the songs from the new album. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3541157/kelly-clarkson-covers-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3541157/kelly-clarkson-covers-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/"},"headline":"Kelly Clarkson Performs a Soulful Gospel Version of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off'","datePublished":"2014-10-27T14:37:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:05.008Z","description":"And Tay totally loved it.","url":"https://time.com/3541157/kelly-clarkson-covers-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Taylor Swift","celebrity","country music","pop music","shake it off","kelly clarkson"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf739865e522026c/698762e6a988ca37a46aa0e6/455087610.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/bltbf739865e522026c/698762e6a988ca37a46aa0e6/455087610.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Kelly Clarkson","caption":"Kelly Clarkson","creditText":"Jason Davis—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/3541157/kelly-clarkson-covers-taylor-swift-shake-it-off/","name":"Kelly Clarkson Performs a Soulful Gospel Version of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off'"}}]}] ```