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.

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

By his own admission, Dream Theater 's Mike Portnoy doesn't listen to pop music, so when the good people at ever-entertaining drummer's website Drumeo set him a challenge of playing along to Taylor Swift's global mega-hit Shake It Off,