Taylor Swift’s biggest insecurity just came to light, and it’s not about her love life with Travis Kelce

Taylor Swift has rewritten just about every headline about her career and now she’s even changing the narrative around her dancing. In a new interview with

The New York Times

, Emmy-winning choreographer

Mandy Moore

opened up about working with Taylor to develop her movement style for

The Eras Tour

, revealing how the singer went from self-conscious to fully confident onstage.

Mandy Moore says Taylor had been “in her head” about dancing for years

According to Moore, Taylor carried years of online chatter that she “can’t dance.” That criticism made her overthink every move. So when Moore came on board, she decided to throw all that pressure out the window.

“She’d gotten a bad rap for a long time about her dancing, so she was really in her head,”

Moore told

The New York Times.

“

We shifted the focus to how movement was already manifesting in her body — the way she naturally wanted to move.”

Instead of trying to make Taylor fit a rigid choreography style, Moore emphasized

authenticity over precision

, fine-tuning only small details like posture or shoulder alignment.

Moore described how Taylor’s approach transformed once they began working together.

“I really admire Taylor’s tenacity. She works so hard. Whatever I was putting down, she was picking up,”

Moore said.She also praised Taylor’s creative leadership, noting that the pop star is

“very clear about what she wants,”

something Moore loves because

“I can’t create unless I have parameters.”

That structure, she explained, helped them build routines that felt personal to Taylor: bold, emotional, and a little quirky, just like her.

A full-circle moment for Taylor Swift’s performance journey

The comments hit differently for fans who’ve watched Taylor grow from the shy teenager in cowboy boots to the commanding headliner who now performs for three hours straight. Moore’s insight shows that Taylor’s stage presence isn’t about perfect choreography, it’s about

owning her individuality

.

And if the viral

Eras Tour

clips are any proof, the “bad dancer” label didn’t just fade away, Taylor completely danced her way past it.Taylor Swift’s evolution isn’t just musical, it’s physical. By embracing her natural movement and teaming up with a choreographer who saw her strengths, she’s redefined what confidence looks like on stage. In Moore’s words, Taylor’s not just following choreography, she’s

feeling it.

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