This amusing shot-by-shot recreation of the Shake it Off music video starring 50 adorable residents of a New Zealand retirement home went viral across the interwebs. Proving that just because you’re old, doesn’t mean you can’t have fun!
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Taking a week to put together, the elderly group learnt the words to the song and as many of the dance moves as they could to recreate the stylings from each scene in the video. The video has since racked up more than 100,000 views on YouTube.
Staff from the retirement village and grandchildren of the parody stars made cameos in the professionally shot and produced video. With the average age of the dancers being 82, the video astonishingly stars a cast of dancers with a combined aged 4,000!
“Just because we’re in a retirement village, doesn’t mean we can’t have fun,” said Margaret Gregory, 72, who was cast as Swift in the video. “We still have life and energy, and sometimes I feel I do more now than when I was younger, because I have more time.”
This isn’t the first the Julia Wallace Retirement Village made an attention-grabbing outing. In 2015 they produced a nude calendar to raise funds for the Red Cross, and in 2014 their sister village in Christchurch did a flash mob rendition of Pharrell Williams’s Happy at a local mall.
As much as we want to to show you the nude calendar, here’s the Happy video instead.
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