Gregory Brothers Give Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' The Gloomy Minor Key Makeover It Needed

Already Tired Of Taylor Swift's Cheery 'Shake It Off'? Try This Instead.

It sounds shocking, we know, but sometimes the key you play a song in is, well, key.

Taylor Swift's new music video "Shake It Off" is a peppy, upbeat response to all the criticism that's been lobbed at her over the years -- at least when it's sung in major.

When The Gregory Brothers bring Swift's song down to minor, the response to the catalog of haters and other ne'er-do-wells starts to sound, well, a little depressing.

To top things off, poor Sarah Fullen Gregory has to crawl beneath the guys while they, uh, attempt to twerk.

As the Brothers note helpfully in the video description, "It's very difficult to shake things, when you are very very sad."

Before You Go

"Lose Yourself"
At 17, Taylor Swift attempted to cover Eminem's "Lose Yourself" live on "The Danger Show" in 2006.
"Thug Story" ft. T-Pain
This Auto-tuned collaboration between Swift and T-Pain was a skit for the 2009 CMT Music Awards that poked fun at Swift's good-girl image. She called herself T-Swizzle, and it was actually kind of adorable.
"Super Bass"
Taylor Swift rapped a verse of Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" while stopping by Nashville radio station 107.5 The River in 2011.
"Lose Yourself"
Taylor tried "Lose Yourself" again at her Grand Rapids, Michigan, show in 2011.
"Shake It Off"
And, of course, Taylor's latest attempt ...

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