--- title: Taylor Swift Names Signature Awards Show Dance Move the Mom Croon description: She defined it and put it in a sentence canonical: https://time.com/4003401/taylor-swift-awards-show-dancing-mom-croon/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-19T19:55:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:01.838Z og:title: Taylor Swift Finally Named Her Signature Dance Move og:description: Say hello to the "Mom-Croon" og:url: https://time.com/4003401/taylor-swift-awards-show-dancing-mom-croon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d83238831f6e85a/69886010f887dce1f7e91f41/gettyimages-463041344.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: GettyImages-463041344 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Finally Named Her Signature Dance Move twitter:description: Say hello to the "Mom-Croon" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d83238831f6e85a/69886010f887dce1f7e91f41/gettyimages-463041344.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift Finally Named Her Signature Dance Move ## Video: The Power of Taylor Swift [Watch (HLS stream): The Power of Taylor Swift](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mUgZx3qP.m3u8) (2:04)  _Published 2015-06-22. One day after Taylor Swift publicly blasted Apple Music for not paying artists during the service’s free, three-month trial period, Apple reversed its position_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 19, 2015 7:55 PM UTC  Taylor Swift really, really loves to dance at awards shows. Taylor Swift really, really loves to dance at awards shows.Kevin Mazur—Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 19, 2015 7:55 PM UTC Incessant dancing at awards shows is one of the many things that make Taylor Swift who she is. [Grammys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yW%5Fjcyo3pg)? [VMAs](http://www.mtv.com/news/1910244/taylor-swift-dancing-2014-vmas/)? [ACMs?](http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20906362%5F20916662,00.html) You can always count on Tay to dance like nobody’s watching. She’ll shimmy, she’ll shake, she’ll jump around, she’ll wave her hands in the air like she just don’t care. This week, fans took to Tumblr to post[ a GIF](http://31.media.tumblr.com/4735d86ff78a4478a8c8b7345f2aefcb/tumblr%5Fnjo9m0JMRs1u1av6jo1%5F400.gif) of Tay dancing at this year’s Grammys to try to figure out what Swift calls the move. “Taylor this is so important,” one Swiftie [wrote](http://swiftiesinfundon.tumblr.com/post/120333857045/swiftiesinfundon-the-way-ed-just-turns-around), “we need a name for this move.” Well, Taylor[ has spoken](http://taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/127022055165/swiftiesinfundon-swiftiesinfundon-the-way-ed), and she revealed that the name of her signature move is the Mom-Croon. Allow her to explain: --- > “” --- Swift explains that haters may “judge the Mom-Crooners (MC’s as they are commonly referred to in the dance world) as it is a form of dance only perfected by those willing to be absolutely swept away by the feels you get when you hear a certain song.” Mom-Crooners, you see, “have reached a level of musical transcendence that is hater-proof.” If you need further clarification, she also offered an example sentence: “Oh look, Taylor’s being embarrassing again– just mom-crooning away in the corner by herself because ‘Sometimes’ by Britney Spears came on. Oh God. Now she’s crying.” _Read next:_ [_Watch This 7-Year-Old Piano Prodigy Master Taylor Swift’s Hits_](http://time.com/4004589/taylor-swift-songs-piano-prodigy/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Download TIME’s mobile app for iOS to have your world explained wherever you go_](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-mobile/id328218429) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4003401/taylor-swift-awards-show-dancing-mom-croon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4003401/taylor-swift-awards-show-dancing-mom-croon/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Finally Named Her Signature Dance Move","datePublished":"2015-08-19T19:55:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:03:01.838Z","description":"Say hello to the \"Mom-Croon\"","url":"https://time.com/4003401/taylor-swift-awards-show-dancing-mom-croon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d83238831f6e85a/69886010f887dce1f7e91f41/gettyimages-463041344.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/blt7d83238831f6e85a/69886010f887dce1f7e91f41/gettyimages-463041344.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GettyImages-463041344","caption":"onstage during The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards at the STAPLES Center on February 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.","creditText":"Kevin Mazur—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/4003401/taylor-swift-awards-show-dancing-mom-croon/","name":"Taylor Swift Finally Named Her Signature Dance Move"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Power of Taylor Swift","description":"One day after Taylor Swift publicly blasted Apple Music for not paying artists during the service’s free, three-month trial period, Apple reversed its position","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/mUgZx3qP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T20:13:13.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mUgZx3qP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4003401/taylor-swift-awards-show-dancing-mom-croon/","duration":"PT2M4S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4003401/taylor-swift-awards-show-dancing-mom-croon/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```