--- title: Lip Sync Battle The Rock Shake It Off description: The Rock's got moves canonical: https://time.com/3770618/lip-sync-battle-the-rock-shake-it-off/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-03T16:03:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:21.911Z og:title: Watch The Rock Crush Jimmy Fallon With His Lip-Sync Cover of 'Shake It Off' og:description: The Rock's got moves og:url: https://time.com/3770618/lip-sync-battle-the-rock-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: Watch The Rock Crush Jimmy Fallon With His Lip-Sync Cover of 'Shake It Off' twitter:description: The Rock's got moves twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch The Rock Crush Jimmy Fallon With His Lip-Sync Cover of 'Shake It Off' by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 3, 2015 4:03 PM CUT by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 3, 2015 4:03 PM CUT _Lip Sync Battle_, the _Tonight Show_ sketch turned Spike TV show, premiered last night and featured a thrilling throwdown between Jimmy Fallon and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The Rock, fresh off his fantastic _Saturday Night Live_ hosting gig, opened the show with a spirited take on Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off.” The _Furious 7_ star put his massive frame to use while shaking it off to the music and in a move straight out of the WWE taunting playbook, wagging his finger in Fallon’s face. The best part of the performance might be the realization that there is no way The Rock got this good at this song without engaging in a lot of Taylor Swift [car karaoke](http://time.com/3759655/mariah-carey-car-karaoke-james-corden/ "undefined"). Of course he’s not the only celebrity caught singing along to the earworm. (Check out TIME’s list of the [six best celebrity covers of “Shake It Off.”](http://time.com/3592409/taylor-swift-shake-it-off-celebrity-covers/ "undefined")) Round two featured Fallon tackling Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” with a full choir, while Johnson delivered a dazzling, hip-swiveling version of the Bee Gee’s “Staying Alive.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3770618/lip-sync-battle-the-rock-shake-it-off/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3770618/lip-sync-battle-the-rock-shake-it-off/"},"headline":"Watch The Rock Crush Jimmy Fallon With His Lip-Sync Cover of 'Shake It Off'","datePublished":"2015-04-03T16:03:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:21.911Z","description":"The Rock's got moves","url":"https://time.com/3770618/lip-sync-battle-the-rock-shake-it-off/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","jimmy fallon","Taylor Swift","the rock","dwayne johnson","shake it off"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/3770618/lip-sync-battle-the-rock-shake-it-off/","name":"Watch The Rock Crush Jimmy Fallon With His Lip-Sync Cover of 'Shake It Off'"}}]}] ```