--- title: Taylor Swift Mash-up Video of Shake It Off From Oxford Union description: It features more famous people than a Taylor Swift concert canonical: https://time.com/4006082/oxford-union-mash-up-taylor-swift/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-21T12:31:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:41.444Z og:title: Taylor Swift Mash-up Video of Shake It Off From Oxford Union og:description: It features more famous people than a Taylor Swift concert og:url: https://time.com/4006082/oxford-union-mash-up-taylor-swift/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Mash-up Video of Shake It Off From Oxford Union twitter:description: It features more famous people than a Taylor Swift concert twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Oxford Union's Mash-Up Invitation to Taylor Swift by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 21, 2015 12:31 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 21, 2015 12:31 PM CUT The Oxford Union has issued and invitation to singer Taylor Swift — using her own words. The Oxford University student debating society created a video mash-up of past prominent speakers — including Malala, Stephen Fry, Psy and Morgan Freeman — whose speeches are edited to recreate Swift’s song “Shake It Off.” Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart, who recently [asked to join Swift’s “squad” of famous friends](http://time.com/3962150/taylor-swift-ian-mckellen-patrick-stewart/ "undefined"), also appear. The video was offered up as an invitation to the pop star to give her own lecture. Oxford Union tweeted the video, along with an invitation, out on Wednesday: > [](https://twitter.com/OxfordUnion/status/634049073390161920) The union’s president, Charles Vaughan, told [_The Independent_](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/taylor-swift-oxford-union-shake-it-off-mashup-video-featuring-famous-speakers-in-plea-for-star-to-appear-10463854.html "undefined") that they hadn’t been able to book Swift because of her busy touring schedule and were hoping to attract her attention with the video. So far, however, there’s been no word from Swift. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4006082/oxford-union-mash-up-taylor-swift/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4006082/oxford-union-mash-up-taylor-swift/"},"headline":"Watch the Oxford Union's Mash-Up Invitation to Taylor Swift","datePublished":"2015-08-21T12:31:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:41.444Z","description":"It features more famous people than a Taylor Swift concert","url":"https://time.com/4006082/oxford-union-mash-up-taylor-swift/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4006082/oxford-union-mash-up-taylor-swift/","name":"Watch the Oxford Union's Mash-Up Invitation to Taylor Swift"}}]}] ```