http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-34010099
https://youtu.be/nfWlot6h_JM (Shake It Off: 998,793,839 hits just now)

Oxford University's debating society (the Oxford Union) is trying to lure Taylor Swift to speak at one of it's world-famous debates (top link above).

They have put together a mash-up of past speakers in their debates as a short YouTube video (those folks speak out the lyrics from “Shake It Up”) and then posted it on Twitter:-

To give you some idea of the calibre of folks that they are able to entice to Oxford, these are some of those in the mashup:-

• Stephen Fry
• FIFA president Sepp Blatter
• actor Sir Ian McKellen
• activist Malala Yousafzai
• Gangnam Style singer Psy
• TV presenter Piers Morgan
• actor Morgan Freeman
• actress Diane Kruger
• actor Sir Patrick Stewart
• actor Jack Gleeson
• biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins

Meanwhile, Officer Davis's YouTube Shake It Off tribute  has now reached 36,277,580 views (21,112,926 back on 21 January, which is a big slowdown since it's release on 16 Jan 2015).

Taylor Swift's own version of Shake It Off is now almost 1 billion views on YouTube!! (494,957,036 on 21 January, released 18 Aug 2014).

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Alex Kemp