Listen: Taylor Swift releases 'Shake It Off,' from new album '1989' - Los Angeles Times
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Listen: Taylor Swift releases ‘Shake It Off,’ from new album ‘1989’

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“It’s finally time to tell some secrets,†Taylor Swift wrote Monday on Twitter. Then she took to the talk-show-like confines of a live stream and began telling them.

The big takeaway: Swift has completed a new album, her follow-up to 2012’s characteristically blockbusting “Red.†The record is called “1989,†which was the year she was born. It comes out Oct. 27.

And, perhaps most important, there’s a single, which you can hear this very instant.

Co-written and co-produced by the singer with Max Martin and Shellback (the same team behind her hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Togetherâ€), “Shake It Off†is an uptempo pop song in which Swift assures the haters and the heartbreakers that they’re no match for her.

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“I keep cruising / Can’t stop, won’t stop moving,†she sings over percussive horn jabs, “It’s like I got this music in my mind saying it’s gonna be all right.â€

Swift also released a music video Monday for “Shake It Off.â€

Directed by Mark Romanek, it has the singer playing several roles, including a ballerina, a Lady Gaga lookalike and a woman wearing Skrillex-style eyeglasses.

There’s also a scene, one sure to generate controversy, in which Swift crawls beneath the legs of several dancers twerking in formation.

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In a statement, Swift called “1989†her first “official pop album†and said she’d been inspired by the music of the late ‘80s, which she called “a time of limitless possibilities.â€

Twitter: @mikaelwood

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