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At the end of the year, it was announced that Taylor Swift became the first female artist to succeed herself on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Still, we consider her 2014 career highlight to be her awkward attempts at dancing, which we savored for all their cringeworthy goodness. Below, 15 times our girl T. Swift displayed her best (or shall we say worst) dance moves at the risk of worldwide humiliation.

1. Tay even surprised herself when she gyrated like so.

2. The side effects of a live Beyoncé performance are so serious…

3. …that later T. Swift also experienced a tingling sensation in her fingers.

4. She’s going to need a neck brace if she keeps this up.

5. Twist and turn and oops, don’t mind if I just step on your shoes.

6. Dancing may not be her forte, but hula-hooping clearly is.

7. Nuh-uh Harry, you can’t bring me down…

8. …I’m stayin’ alive…

9. …and shimmy-shimmying until I die.

10. Ah, the invisible flute—a T-Swizzle classic.

11. More gawky hand gestures, of which Sam Smith approves.

12. She wasn’t kidding when she said she makes the moves up as she goes.

13. Hm, we wonder why Jordin Sparks is pretending she doesn’t know Tay Tay and Lorde.

14. Fire doesn’t even stop her from busting a move.

15. And the award for most awkward caress goes to…

Cue a big round of applause.

Which one of T. Swift’s totes awkward dance moves this year made you laugh the hardest, collegiettes?

Nina Aghadjanian is a versatile multimedia journalist who graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with a Bachelor's Degree in Literary Journalism and minor in Management. She is a former Fashion and Lifestyle Production intern at E! News, an editor at UC Irvine's Her Campus chapter and an on-camera reporter at Anteater Television, a student-run news program. Nina's other previous roles include remote Contributing Writer and Blogger at Her Campus, the number one global online community for college women; editorial intern at Byrdie, an online magazine devoted to all things beauty that was launched by the creators of WhoWhatWear.com; and social media manager at Party Bravo, an online wedding directory. Nina is an aspiring on-camera entertainment news correspondent and digital magazine editor with an obsessive attention to detail in writing and superb reporting, interviewing and interpersonal communication skills. She is equally adept at managing multifarious projects and meeting tight deadlines, always doing so with an intent to increase productivity without cutting quality. When Nina isn't monitoring celebrity whereabouts, new haircuts and breakups like a hawk, she's perusing glossy and digital fashion magazines and thinking of more reasons why Los Angeles, not Disneyland, is the happiest place on earth. Nina is eager to build on her love for editorial and encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture, celebrity, beauty and fashion. Contact Nina directly at aghadjanian102@gmail.com or connect with her via Instagram @sincerely_ninaa.