Ultimately, we’re just kind of hoping somebody acknowledges that it’s us in the video, since that’s never really happened.” “We’ve never gotten a response to a couple of inquiries. “I would love to actually have a chat with someone from Taylor’s group,” chuckles Grimm. When speaking to Rolling Stone, Greenville Drive-In owner Dwight Grimm said that the discovery of the video - which sees the Folklore lyrics playing across their screen - came as a “pleasant surprise.” The theater allegedly reached out to Swift’s team “to politely ask if they might identify and credit” the location, but has yet to receive a response from her reps, three years later. The drive-in says that one of their “eagle-eyed Swiftie staffers” saw the lyric video and realized it was their place of employment. It turns out that at some point in 2018 or 2019, a freelance photographer allegedly entered the drive-in’s property “without permission and began filming,” labeled the footage on Shutterstock as “abandoned upstate NY drive-in theatre,” put it up for $75, and - “voila! Instant music video.” (It’s a lyric video, to be clear.) “It has taken us a little time to unwind what happened, but it is a distinctly modern tale.” At the time, this scenario caught us off-guard as we were not even remotely aware of this possibility,” the post read. “It has now been seen nearly 18 million times on YouTube around the planet. On Monday, the Instagram account behind the Greene County, New York drive-in celebrated its third annual Taylor Swift Appreciation Day in honor of the singer featuring their theater screen in the lyric video for Folklore song “ This Is Me Trying.” The business recapped the “distinctly modern tale” (or folklore, if you will) of how they allegedly never received official credit for being in the visual. Greenville Drive-In hopes to get proper kudos for appearing in a Taylor Swift lyric video.
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