The anatomy of Taylor Swift’s “Style”

Taylor Swift's new video for "Style," just one of three of Swift's songs currently in the Billboard top 20, completes Taylor's evolution from country to pop. But what is pop? We broke down both the musical and music video anatomy of "Style" to find out.

Voiceover: Kelsey McKinney, Vox Culture reporter
Edit & Animation: Joe Posner

[janna]

I think a lot of people tend to overlook Taylor’s artistic abilities and clever lyric writing. She’s actually objectively a very good singer-songwriter, even though she gets a lot of hate.

[discohaze]

okay, but this video was gorgeously edited and presented

[ethanormonde]

I don’t think that I’ve met someone who doesn’t ADORE style. Truly is one of her best

[applcjuice]

It's called pop perfection periodt

[Kaice]

And this is why I say this was her best album ever. It transcended Taylor into something we all knew was coming but not in this way. She’s a great composer.

[mindyys]

He didn’t cheat though. They were together on and off and when they’re off they see other people but still think about each other. Hence they never go “out of style”

[M]

As a Taylor Swift fan I must say that this video was actually really good and I honestly liked it. It kinda gives you food for thought about music and why it hits the top 10's on the charts

[andrea-hgzz]

"why are you wearing a little black dress?" MY DIRECTIONER MIND JUST EXPLODED

[Samtember]

the blue eye brown eye thing blew my mind tho

[denilsonjovel]

STYLE a pop perfection
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[pjflxx]

style is one of my fave song it gives me different vibes like something quiet and peaceful like you're driving in the middle of the night and the wind is touching your face something like that.

[ChristianOakes]

I've recently started studying music theory, and am extremely impressed with how well the musical analysis of this song is. The notes on tension building 0:30 the rhythm 0:40 song structure 1:36 and chord structure 2:18 & 2:35 are literally exactly what I've read in Music Theory For Dummies. Way to go Vox for putting an incredibly well informed and accurately explained video out on this rarely examined side of music. Keep up the good work!

[pratyay]

9 years in, and I still come back to this video of Vox. Absolutely love this breakdown/analysis of this amazing song 👍🏼🤓

[earlisonline]

this song is one of the bests she has ever released

[sg_]

Style and blank space are the two songs I never got bored of... Specially style... There is always a time when you have listened a song so many times that by the time you hate it... But I've been listening to style and blank space ever since it came out... But I'm still not bored... It's been years now.

[cocodubois-moore]

Love or hate her this song is a pop masterpiece and Taylor knows what she’s doing

[myBquest]

It is fair that we discuss how talented Taylor is because she wrote this song by herself at the end of the day, but man, this production is perfect, clean, subtle yet so classic and modern. Max Martin never goes out of style, really.

[YoungTheFish]

If only all music videos come with their own rhythm driven infographs...

[Adamhulbert]

I don't even like Taylor Swift that much but this is one of the greatest pop songs ever written and produced, it's masterful

[florrie.]

I would love to have a similar anatomy analysis on Marina and The Diamonds' "Froot". That's the one song that always fascinate me in terms of construction, no matter how many times I listen to it.