ABOVE: Here’s a few highlights from the video posted by the Dover Police Department.
TORONTO — A fake “dash cam” video showing a Delaware police officer lip-synching Taylor Swift‘s “Shake It Off” has gone viral — and earned a stamp of approval from Swift.
Posted last Friday on YouTube by the Dover Police Department, the video of Master Cpl. Jeff Davis performing the infectious hit had nearly 8 million views in its first 36 hours.
“While reviewing dash cam footage, we come across some interesting sights to say the least,” reads a message on the force’s Facebook page. “We decided we would share some with you in a new web series called ‘Dash Cam Confessional.’
“We hope you enjoy this…and Taylor Swift if you’re watching…we’re sorry.”
Swift was, it turns out, watching. The singer, who has 50.8 million followers on Twitter, posted a link to the video and commented: “LOLOLOLOL THE SASS.”
Despite being promoted as “dash cam footage,” the department has admitted the video was staged and produced.
“We had it done just as a publicity thing for not only our police department but police worldwide,” Davis told Fox News on Saturday. “We just wanna kind of make a funny video to show that we’re all human.”
Dover Police said Davis, a 19-year veteran of the department and a 48-year-old father of four, has been busy doing interviews with media outlets around the world since the video went viral.
Dover, located about two hours east of Washington, D.C., has a population of about 36,000 people.
BELOW: Watch the full video of the lip-synching officer.
The video is only the latest lip dub of Swift’s “sick beat” to go viral and to be endorsed by the 25-year-old pop star.
Last September, members of the Delta Sigma Phi Beta Mu fraternity at Transylvania University in Kentucky posted their version, which prompted Swift to invite them to a concert on her upcoming tour.
“Nailed it, bros!, “she tweeted.
BELOW: Watch frat boys in Kentucky lip-synch “Shake It Off.”
Swift’s original video for “Shake It Off” has been viewed more than 484 million times. The song is off her 1989 album, which has sold over 4 million copies worldwide and topped the Billboard charts for nine of its first 11 weeks of release.
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