Taylor Swift’s New Album 1989 – 5 Things to Know - video Dailymotion

Taylor Swift announced details about her upcoming album '1989' and released the music video to her single 'Shake it Off' which features twerking!

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00:00Taylor Swift made her long-awaited big announcement during a Yahoo! livestream on Monday,

00:04and as expected, it was about her upcoming fifth album we now know will be titled 1989.

00:11Besides 1989 being the year of Taylor's birth, what else do we know about the new album?

00:16Here are five things we learned from Monday's announcement.

00:18Number one, the country world will have to do without her for a while because this album

00:22is going to be 100% pop. Specifically, Taylor told the crowd that it would be influenced by

00:2880s pop, saying,

00:30Number two, her first single is called Shake It Off, which is basically another anti-haters

00:38anthem. As Taylor explained, people can say whatever they want about us at any time.

00:43The only thing we can control is our reaction to that.

00:46Number three, in case you didn't think she was serious about the pop thing, her video for Shake

00:50It Off, which she debuted on Monday, includes nods to mega pop stars like Lady Gaga, Fergie,

00:56and Gwen Stefani. And warning, guys, there is some serious awkward twerking involved.

01:14Number four, she didn't officially announce any collaborations yet, but rumors are already

01:19swirling that Taylor may pull in pop acts like One Direction and her new buddy Lorde for the album.

01:24And panic at the disco frontman Brandon Urie recently expressed his desire to work with

01:29the singer. Number five, her album is set to hit scores on October 27th. Now, we already know

01:35Taylor will be performing at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, so it's probably safe to assume

01:40that she's going to perform Shake It Off live for the first time ever. I'm Elena Scantlin,

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