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Taylor Swift told Gale King what she values in a girl friend, in a video in a Yahoo article on her Birthday. Click the pic at left to read it.

It's been a great year for Taylor. Her video for Shake It Off now has 370 Million views. Shake It Off was at the top of the Billboard music charts for weeks, until Taylor Swift topped her own song with her new song Blank Space which is now at the top of the charts The Blank Space video currently has 186 Million views.

To honor Taylor Swift on her Birthday, we'll talk about 2 Taylor Swift related YouTube videos. First, Shake It Off Outtake #7 where Taylor Swift dances with her fans. Taylor explains to the fans why they were asked to come. They had no idea they would be in her new music video! "You guys are like the climactic sequence ending of it. Throughout the rest of the video, I'm putting myself probably in more embarrassing situations than the entirety of my middle school experience. So just not fitting in, and making an idiot of myself. And then, finally, I find the people that I fit in with, which is you guys!" Moral of the story - Hang in there and shake it off when you're going through a rough period, and you can find your place in this world. Taylor Swift went through things that are similar to what you may be going through, and it worked out for her, so it can also work out for you. Find some good people to fit in with, and you'll get through whatever is happening, and find happiness in your life.

Just smiled so big as I watched this girl joyously dance-bomb a Whole Foods like a champion. https://t.co/1WaYBQPZNK #ShakeItOff

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 7, 2014

Mackenzie's video currently has 1.1 Million views! This is great publicity for someone who loves performing and aspires to be an actor. After you enjoy her store dancing, below, be sure to check our her Agent Showcase video from October 2014. It's great!

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posted by KennyCrane at 12/13/2014 05:20:00 PM 0 Comments

Taylor Swift did an ad for Keds shoes and the picture to the left is from that ad. Click the pic for more about Keds at Amazon.

The Animators

This video shows the filming of the video that features dancers known as Animators. Animation is a subclass of popping which is a jerky style of dance made up of many quick motions followed by poses. The animator variant is named in reference to stop motion animation popular in the days before computer graphics in adventure and monster movies.

The video starts with Taylor Swift in the most sparkly outfit she has ever worn and a wig so tight that it is giving her a headache. The purpose of the segment is the same as the purpose of the entire video. The idea being put forth is that there will always be others who have something to say about you or who are trying to do things to you. But Taylor Swift's advice is to ignore them, shake it off, and do you own thing. Make the moves up as you go, and totally enjoy yourself! This is not a new point of view. Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, "Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." It's not what happens to you, its how you react -- how you handle it, how you process it, what you do in response.

Taylor Swift finds herself among a trained and practiced group of expert Animator dancers. They execute mind blowing moves flawlessly. Taylor knows that these dancers are very controlled and precise, while all she is capable of is spastic motions. How will she handle this? She performs utterly adorkable dance moves based on whatever pops into her mind! She has this music in her mind saying it's gonna be alright. She may not be as good an Animator as the rest, but she is confident and knows she has other unique abilities, so she enjoys herself and that radiates and lights up the stage! She knows she is awkwardly ruining the great performance of the others but she is proud of her moves just like they are proud of theirs. Have a look and enjoy the Animators, and Taylor Swift doing her own dance moves! This 4 minute video already has 1.5 million views and it a must see for fans of Taylor Swift and fans of the song Shake It Off.

Outtake video #1 was the Cheerleader section. Taylor says that sometimes you feel like you don't fit in. But sometimes you can get everything you want in life without ever feeling like you fit in. The most important thing in life is to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the cool kids! Taylor Swift prepared for the shoot by running to build up her cardio endurance. She had to do three straight days of jumping around! Watch Taylor and the other girls shake their pom poms and do various cheerleader moves including a basket toss where Taylor is caught by three guys; this is one fun video! It is nearly 4 minutes and has nearly 3 million views.

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posted by KennyCrane at 10/16/2014 06:20:00 AM 0 Comments

Back in the 80s, when MTV actually still Was Music TeleVision, the concept of music videos was fairly new. No one knew exactly what to do or what could be done with a music video. Before MTV and the Music Video revolution of the very early 80s, videos were made for a very few songs as promotional material, designed to boost record sales. But on 8/1/81 when MTV went on the air, or over cable actually, it seemed that every sing needed to have an accompanying video to make it a legit song. That meant that many videos were made on low budgets. Bigger budget videos tried to outdo each other for attention. By late 1983, Michael Jackson released a 13-minute music video for "Thriller," directed by famous Hollywood film director John Landis.

Taylor Swift goes back through the years and alludes to styles and cliches used in previous songs and videos. This is what happens in the entertainment world. People "borrow" lyrical ideas and video looks that others have used in the past. If done right, with enough modification and injection of personal style, people accept the allusion to past works and it helps them identify with the current offering. However, if people feel that the artist is blatantly ripping off previous works, they will complain of plagiarism. Both opinions are represented in reviews of Taylor Swift's new song, "Shake It Off".

Yesterday saw the release of the new Nicki Minaj video, Anaconda. This video is also controversial, also features elements from the past, and includes lots of dancing. In this case, the connection to the past is deliberate. The song includes samples from the 1986 hit dance song, "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot. That song told of Mister Mix's appreciation of women who had a figure that was little in the middle but having much back. His Anaconda didn't want none unless she had buns. He obviously liked big butts and he could not lie about it.

So Nicki Minaj made a video celebrating the effect of her twerking butt on someone's Anaconda. In addition to twerking scenes, the video features banana eating and whipped cream shooting on Nicki's chest. Some say this video promotes porn and strip clubs. Take a look and decide for yourself. If you are a parent with young children, you might be interested to see this very popular video by Nicki Minaj that got 10 million views on day one, and decide if your children should see this or not.

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Labels: 80s, anaconda, baby got back, controversial, controversy, MTV, Nicki Minaj, nickiminajvevo, sex, sexy, Shake it off, Sir Mix-aLot, Taylor swift, taylorswiftvevo

posted by KennyCrane at 8/20/2014 09:34:00 PM 0 Comments