Taylor Swift‘s choreographer Mandy Moore said her “bad rap” for dancing made her “really in her head”.

Moore is an esteemed choreographer who, along with choreographing Swift’s Eras tour and ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ music video, also created routines for movies like La La Land and Silver Linings Playbook.

She made the remarks about Swift in an interview with the New York Times, where she spoke about the singer’s journey with becoming more confident in dancing.

“She’d gotten a bad rap for a long time about her dancing, so she was really in her head.,” Moore told the publication. “We shifted the focus to how movement was already manifesting in her body — the way she naturally wanted to move. And then we fine-tuned that: ‘OK, that looks a little weird with your shoulders,’ or, ‘Let’s straighten your knee here.’”

Moore went on to praise Swift, adding: “I really admire Taylor’s tenacity. She works so hard. Whatever I was putting down, she was picking up. And she’s very clear about what she wants, which I love. I find I can’t create unless I have some parameters. The ‘do whatever you want’ thing, for me, it just feels like chaos.”

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Swift recently released her twelfth album ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’, which NME gave three stars. “To seek escapism is not a sin, but the best pop music makes the personal feel like life or death,” we wrote. “‘Speak Now’, ‘Reputation’, ‘Folklore’: her greatest works could be genuinely transformative. For the first time, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ sees Swift not catalysed into artistic growth by love, but merely comfortably secured by it.”

Swift has addressed some of the negative feedback she has received, telling Apple Music: “I welcome the chaos. The rule of show business is if it’s the first week of my album release, and you are saying either my name or my album title, you’re helping.”

She continued: “I have a lot of respect for people’s subjective opinions on art — I’m not the art police. Everybody is allowed to feel exactly how they want and what our goal is as entertainers is to be a mirror. Oftentimes an album is a really, really wild way to look at yourself — what you’re going through in your life is gonna affect whether you relate to the music I’m putting out at any given moment.”

Elsewhere, Elizabeth Taylor’s son has responded to Taylor Swift naming a song after his mother.