Mike Portnoy, Shake It Off and Taylor Swift

Mike Portnoy Drums His Way Through Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’
Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy recently ventured into unexpected territory by reimagining the drumming on Taylor Swift’s 'Shake It Off'.
“I’m sorry I ruined your song!”: Mike Portnoy hears Taylor Swift's Shake It Off for the first time and plays along... with surprising results
After analysing the track for mere moments Portnoy’s keen ear and mind pick out its rhythm and he begins enthusiastically jamming along with a breakneck calypso shuffle beat that, while the perfect accompaniment to the song, is pretty much as far from what anyone familiar with Swift’s track could possibly have ever imagined.
Watch prog metal drum legend Mike Portnoy attempt to play along to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off with absolutely no idea what he's listening to
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Heavy Metal Drummer Plays Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’ Without Ever Hearing The Song Before
I would just like to take a moment that in the year of our lord, 2025, there is still a living and breathing human being on planet earth who had not heard
Drummer Mike Portnoy Performs Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” as He Hears It for First Time: Watch
Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy was tasked with playing along to Taylor Swift's hit "Shake It Off" as he heard it for the first time. Watch.
Mike Portnoy Covers Taylor Swift on Drums, Swears He’s Never Heard It Before
Mike Portnoy may be the only person on the planet not to have heard Taylor Swift‘s 2014 smash “Shake It Off,” but that’s part of the fun as he partakes in Drumeo‘s online video series in which drummers attempt to guess and create parts of songs they’re not familiar with.
See MIKE PORTNOY cover TAYLOR SWIFT's "Shake It Off" for Drumeo
Though Mike Portnoy is all primed to promote Parasomnia – his first album with Dream Theater since 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings – the progressive drum great recently side-stepped his usual duties to deliver a Taylor Swift cover. Specifically, he hit the pop star’s 2014 hit single “Shake it Off” for the good folks at Drumeo.
Presenting Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off (Mike Portnoy’s Version)’
Mike Portnoy gets down to this sick beat on a drum cover of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off."The Dream Theater drummer is featured in the latest edition of the You
Watch MIKE PORTNOY Learn To Play TAYLOR SWIFT's "Shake It Off," Hearing It For The First Time
The first thing that happens when Portnoy is listening to a drumless version of the song, is the prog-metal version of Taylor Swift you never knew you'd get: he turns the pop-infused simplicity of the song into an odd-time signatures drumming fest.
Watch prog metal legend Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) attempt to play along to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off with absolutely no idea what he's listening to
"It sounds like something out of Disneyland in Japan," he muses, after recording a first take drum part which he admits "is like completely pissing all over someone else's art." "In my world you have a guitar solo,
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