:How You Get the Girl

Taylor Swift had identified as a country musician until her fourth studio album, Red (2012).{{sfn|McNutt|2020|p=78}}{{Cite news |last=Hunter-Tilney |first=Ludovic |date=October 27, 2023 |title=Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor's Version)—Our Critic Changes His Mind on the Pop Star's Magnum Opus |newspaper=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/44c4ae65-9de9-4f5d-a56e-6bb4facd3ff2 |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=September 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027052744/http://www.ft.com/content/44c4ae65-9de9-4f5d-a56e-6bb4facd3ff2 |archive-date=October 27, 2023}} The record incorporates eclectic pop and rock styles beyond the country stylings of her past albums,{{sfn|McNutt|2020|p=77}}{{Cite news |last=Bream |first=Jon |date=June 20, 2023 |title=Our Music Critic Ranks Taylor Swift's Albums From Worst to Best |url=https://www.startribune.com/taylor-swift-jack-antonoff-aaron-dessner-grammy-folklore-1989-red-speak-now-kanye-west-harry-styles/600283837/ |url-access=limited |access-date=September 29, 2024 |newspaper=Minnesota Star Tribune |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721103804/https://www.startribune.com/taylor-swift-jack-antonoff-aaron-dessner-grammy-folklore-1989-red-speak-now-kanye-west-harry-styles/600283837/ |url-status=live }}{{efn|Namely, Taylor Swift (2006), Fearless (2008), and Speak Now (2010).}} which led to journalists questioning her country-music identity.{{cite web |last=Sclafani |first=Tony |date=November 6, 2013 |title=Red Alert: Is Taylor Swift Country Enough for the CMAs? |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/red-alert-taylor-swift-country-enough-cmas-8c11535562 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240618021540/https://www.today.com/popculture/red-alert-taylor-swift-country-enough-cmas-8c11535562 |archive-date=June 18, 2024 |access-date=November 7, 2024 |website=Today.com }}{{Cite news |last=Lewis |first=Randy |date=October 18, 2012 |title=Taylor Swift Makes a Grown-Up Move On Red |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-xpm-2012-oct-18-la-et-ms-taylor-swift-red-20121021-story.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=November 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230109014737/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-xpm-2012-oct-18-la-et-ms-taylor-swift-red-20121021-story.html |archive-date=January 9, 2023 }}{{Cite web |last=Wisnicki |first=Nathan |date=October 29, 2012 |title=In Defense of Taylor Swift and Gen-Y Pop Music |url=https://www.popmatters.com/164733-taylor-swift-red-2495802583.html |access-date=November 7, 2024 |website=PopMatters |archive-date=February 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201091844/https://www.popmatters.com/164733-taylor-swift-red-2495802583.html |url-status=live }} She began writing songs for her fifth studio album in 2013 while embarking on the Red Tour (2013–2014) and named it 1989 after her birth year to signify an artistic reinvention.{{cite news |last=Talbott |first=Chris |date=October 13, 2013 |title=Taylor Swift Talks Next Album, CMAs and Ed Sheeran |agency=Associated Press |url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/taylor-swift-talks-next-album-cmas-and-ed-sheeran |access-date=July 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026093555/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/taylor-swift-talks-next-album-cmas-and-ed-sheeran |archive-date=October 26, 2013}}{{cite magazine |last=Eells |first=Josh |date=September 16, 2014 |title=Taylor Swift Reveals Five Things to Expect on 1989 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/taylor-swift-reveals-five-things-to-expect-on-1989-65750/ |url-status=live |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116173655/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/taylor-swift-reveals-five-things-to-expect-on-1989-65750/ |archive-date=November 16, 2018 |access-date=July 8, 2024|url-access=limited}} Described by Swift as her first "official pop album",{{cite news |last=Sisario |first=Ben|author-link=Ben Sisario |date=November 5, 2014 |title=Sales of Taylor Swift's 1989 Intensify Streaming Debate |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/arts/music/sales-of-taylor-swifts-1989-intensify-streaming-debate.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=July 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111032635/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/business/media/taylor-swifts-1989-carries-high-hopes-but-no-country-music.html |archive-date=November 11, 2014}} it was inspired by 1980s synth-pop and musical experimentation.{{Cite web |last=Barnes |first=Kelsey |date=October 27, 2023 |title=7 Ways Taylor Swift's 1989 Primed Her for World Domination |url=https://www.grammy.com/news/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-pop-stardom |access-date=November 16, 2024 |website=Grammy.com |archive-date=October 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241005211827/https://www.grammy.com/news/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-pop-stardom |url-status=live }} Big Machine Records released 1989 on October 27, 2014, to critical praise and commercial success;{{Cite magazine |last=Caulfield |first=Keith |date=October 29, 2014 |title=Taylor Swift's 1989 Surging Toward 1.2 Million Debut |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-1989-1-million-plus-debut/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=November 19, 2024 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315195935/https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-1989-1-million-plus-debut/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Levine |first=Nick |date=August 21, 2019 |title=Taylor Swift's Lover: The Struggle to Maintain Superstardom |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190820-taylor-swift-and-the-struggle-to-maintain-pop-superstardom |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301114553/https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190820-taylor-swift-and-the-struggle-to-maintain-pop-superstardom |archive-date=March 1, 2021 |access-date=November 9, 2024 |publisher=BBC}} "How You Get the Girl" is the album's tenth track.{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/taylor-swift-unveils-1989-tracklisting-finally-__6299/|title=Taylor Swift Unveils 1989 Tracklisting... Finally!|author=Liv|publisher=Official Charts Company|date=October 23, 2014|access-date=November 17, 2024|url-status=live|archive-date=June 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160619162805/http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/taylor-swift-unveils-1989-tracklisting-finally-__6299/}}

In the United States, "How You Get the Girl" reached number four on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart dated November 15, 2014. In July 2018, it received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. The track debuted at number 81 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart in Canada. "How You Get the Girl" was certified platinum in Australia, gold in New Zealand, and silver in the United Kingdom.

Max Martin and Shellback produced seven of the thirteen tracks on 1989{{'s}} standard edition, including "How You Get the Girl". Swift co-wrote the song with Martin and Shellback, who both programmed it and played electronic keyboards. The track was recorded by Sam Holland at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles and by Michael Ilbert at MXM Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. It was mixed by Serban Ghenea at Mixstar Studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound in New York.{{cite AV media notes |title=1989 |first=Taylor|last=Swift|author-link=Taylor Swift |year=2014 |type=CD liner notes |publisher=Big Machine Records |id=BMRBD0500A}}

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"How You Get the Girl" is four minutes and seven seconds long.{{Cite web |last=Swift |first=Taylor |author-link=Taylor Swift |date=October 27, 2014 |title=1989 |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/1989/1440935467 |publisher=Apple Music (US) |access-date=November 20, 2024 |archive-date=October 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005110614/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/1989/id907242701 |url-status=live }} Music journalists identified it as an electropop and bubblegum pop track with a midtempo rhythm and a dreamy balladic atmosphere.{{efn|Attributed to The A.V. Club{{'s}} Marah Eakin,{{cite web |last=Eakin |first=Marah |date=October 28, 2014 |title=With 1989, Taylor Swift Finally Grows Up |url=http://www.avclub.com/review/1989-taylor-swift-finally-grows-211047 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028063859/http://www.avclub.com/review/1989-taylor-swift-finally-grows-211047 |archive-date=October 28, 2014 |access-date=November 8, 2024 |work=The A.V. Club}} PopMatters{{'s}} Corey Beasly,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.popmatters.com/187585-taylor-swift-1989-2495596654.html|title=Taylor Swift: 1989|magazine=PopMatters|first=Corey|last=Beasley|date=October 30, 2014|access-date=September 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240530084256/https://www.popmatters.com/187585-taylor-swift-1989-2495596654.html|archive-date=May 30, 2024|url-status=live}} The Quietus{{'s}} Amy Pettifier, and Annie Zaleski.{{Sfn|Zaleski|2024|p=121}}}} "How You Get the Girl" incorporates acoustic guitar strums, a heavy disco-styled beat, and beatboxing vocal percussion. The Quietus{{'s}} Amy Pettifier likened the "metaphorical distance and melancholy" of the song to the music of Cyndi Lauper, the Bangles, and Stevie Nicks,{{cite web|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/16790-taylor-swift-1989-review|title=Taylor Swift – 1989|work=The Quietus|first=Amy|last=Pettifier|date=November 27, 2014|access-date=November 8, 2024|archive-date=February 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207165110/https://thequietus.com/articles/16790-taylor-swift-1989-review|url-status=live}} while Stereogum{{'s}} Tom Breihan thought that it had the shimmery elements of Debbie Gibson{{'s}} music.{{Cite web |last=Breihan |first=Tom |date=October 27, 2014 |title=Premature Evaluation: Taylor Swift 1989 |url=https://www.stereogum.com/1714688/premature-evaluation-taylor-swift-1989/reviews/premature-evaluation/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716092508/https://www.stereogum.com/1714688/premature-evaluation-taylor-swift-1989/reviews/premature-evaluation/ |archive-date=July 16, 2024 |access-date=November 9, 2024 |website=Stereogum}}

In the physical booklet of 1989, Swift provided a secret message for each track which collectively tells a short story that reflects the album's theme of self-discovery. The secret message for "How You Get the Girl" was "then one day he came back".{{Cite magazine |last=Strecker |first=Erin |date=October 27, 2014 |title=Taylor Swift's 1989 Liner Note Messages & Reference Guide |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-1989-liner-notes-6296676/ |access-date=December 5, 2024 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=January 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111182323/https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-1989-liner-notes-6296676/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Grady |date=October 27, 2014 |title=Taylor Swift: The Hidden Meaning in 1989{{'s}} Album Notes – and an Aphex Twin Mashup |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/oct/27/taylor-swift-1989-album-notes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240730085625/https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/oct/27/taylor-swift-1989-album-notes |archive-date=July 30, 2024 |access-date=November 8, 2024 |work=The Guardian}} She described the track as a tutorial to a man on how to win his ex-girlfriend back, six months after he ruined their relationship.{{Cite web |last=Ahlgrim |first=Callie |date=July 10, 2023 |title=43 Taylor Swift Songs, Interpreted From a Queer Perspective |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-gay-songs-queer-lyrics-2022-9 |access-date=September 29, 2024 |website=Business Insider |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925140909/https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-gay-songs-queer-lyrics-2022-9 |archive-date=September 25, 2024 |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}{{cite web|last=Cash|first=Rachel|date=December 18, 2023|url=https://www.thelist.com/1469249/real-meaning-behind-taylor-swifts-how-you-get-the-girl/|title=The Real Meaning Behind Taylor Swift's 'How You Get The Girl'|work=The List|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820144611/https://www.thelist.com/1469249/real-meaning-behind-taylor-swifts-how-you-get-the-girl/|archive-date=August 20, 2024|access-date=November 9, 2024|url-status=live }} In the second verse, Swift tells the man to remember the good times between him and the woman ("Tell her how you must have lost your mind/ When you left her all alone/ and never told her why"). She explains in the pre-chorus: "That's how you lost the girl". She instructs him in the chorus in the form of cue cards that in order for the woman to forgive him, he needs to show his commitment in the relationship ("Then you say/ I want you for worse or for better/ I would wait for ever and ever/ Broke your heart, I'll put it back together/ I would wait for ever and ever").{{Cite web |last=Hopper |first=Alex |date=November 3, 2023 |title=The Meaning Behind the Apologetic 'How You Get The Girl' by Taylor Swift |url=https://americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-behind-the-apologetic-how-you-get-the-girl-by-taylor-swift/ |access-date=September 29, 2024 |website=American Songwriter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820133946/https://americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-behind-the-apologetic-how-you-get-the-girl-by-taylor-swift/ |archive-date=August 20, 2024 |url-status=live }} The outro, which is written in past tense, suggests a reunion between the two lovers and a happy ending ("And that's how it works/ that's how you got the girl"). Pettifier found the song's lyrical imagery similar to "saccharine fairy tales".

When "How You Get the Girl" was first released, some music critics praised the song as catchy and for having an ability to combine Swift's old and new sounds. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone selected "How You Get the Girl" as one of the three best tracks on the album and thought that it combined the best of Swift's "old and new tricks": her acoustic arrangements and Martin's disco-heavy production.{{Cite magazine |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |date=October 24, 2014 |title=Taylor Swift 1989 Album Review |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/1989-90808/ |url-status=live |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621221231/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/taylor-swift-1989-20141024 |archive-date=June 21, 2018 |url-access=limited |access-date=September 29, 2024}} In a retrospective ranking of Swift's discography in 2024, he ranked the song at number 107 out of 274 tracks.{{Cite web |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |date=April 25, 2024 |title=All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/taylor-swift-songs-ranked-rob-sheffield-201800/how-you-get-the-girl-2014-195643/ |access-date=September 29, 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909201824/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/taylor-swift-songs-ranked-rob-sheffield-201800/how-you-get-the-girl-2014-195643/ |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |url-status=live |url-access=limited}} Nylon{{'s}} Leila Brillson similarly said that "How You Get the Girl" matched the "new Taylor with the old" and described it as "the most familiar-feeling Taylor song" on 1989. She questioned Swift's decision over not having released the song as the album's lead single.{{cite web |last=Brillson |first=Leila |date=October 24, 2014 |url=https://www.nylon.com/articles/taylor-swift-1989-review |title=Taylor Swift's 1989 Is Totally Unexpected |work=Nylon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523032002/https://www.nylon.com/articles/taylor-swift-1989-review |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |access-date=November 9, 2024 |url-status=live }} Philadelphia{{'s}} Brandon Baker dubbed "How You Get the Girl" an "earworm" and picked it as one of the songs that made 1989 the "catchiest and most radio-ready pop album of the year",{{cite web |last=Baker |first=Brandon |date=October 27, 2014 |url=https://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/10/27/playdar-1989-taylor-swift-takes-form-perfect-dive-1980s-pop/ |title=Playdar: On 1989, Taylor Swift Takes a Form-Perfect Dive into 1980s Pop |work=Philadelphia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127211344/https://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/10/27/playdar-1989-taylor-swift-takes-form-perfect-dive-1980s-pop/ |archive-date=January 27, 2023 |access-date=November 9, 2024 |url-status=live }} and Ken Tucker, in a review for NPR, considered it one of the songs that "nod fondly at youth while yielding the pleasures of adult artistry", which he thought to be the key to the album's success.{{cite web |first=Ken |last=Tucker |author-link=Ken Tucker |title=Taylor Swift: The Peppiest Pop Star We Have Right Now |url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/360134771?storyId=360134771?storyId=360134771 |publisher=NPR |access-date=November 9, 2024 |format=Audio upload and transcript |date=October 30, 2014 |archive-date=October 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031060525/https://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360134771/taylor-swift-the-peppiest-pop-star-we-have-right-now |url-status=live}} Several critics praised the chorus of "How You Get the Girl", including Brillson, MusicOMH{{'s}} Shane Kimberlin, and PopMatters{{'s}} Corey Beasley.{{cite web|url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/taylor-swift-1989|title=Taylor Swift – 1989|work=MusicOMH|date=November 3, 2014|first=Shane|last=Kimberlin|access-date=November 8, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105103600/https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/taylor-swift-1989|archive-date=November 5, 2014|url-status=live|url-access=limited}}

Other critics considered the theme and production of "How You Get the Girl" generic and unremarkable.{{efn|Attributed to reviews by Eakin, The New York Times{{'}} John Caramanica, and The Guardian{{'s}} Alexis Petridis.}} John Caramanica of The New York Times regarded the song as ineffective,{{Cite news |last=Caramanica |first=John |date=October 23, 2014 |title=A Farewell to Twang |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/arts/music/taylor-swift-1989-new-album-review.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=September 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927095551/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/arts/music/taylor-swift-1989-new-album-review.html |archive-date=September 27, 2024 |url-access=limited |url-status=live }} and Alexis Petridis of The Guardian described it as "a knowing checklist of the kind of love-song platitudes that Swift's peers might easily punt out with a straight face".{{cite web |last=Petridis |first=Alexis |author-link=Alexis Petridis |date=October 24, 2014 |title=Taylor Swift: 1989 Review – Leagues Ahead of the Teen-Pop Competition |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/24/taylor-swift-1989-review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101060229/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/24/taylor-swift-1989-review |archive-date=November 1, 2014 |access-date=November 8, 2024 |work=The Guardian}} Marah Eakin from The A.V. Club found the song's midtempo balladic production similar to Swift's other works and inconspicuous compared to the rest of the album, saying that it seemed "out of place". Spin{{'s}} Andrew Unterberger similarly believed that it was one of the tracks that deviated from the album's 1980s pop sound and viewed it as a "breezy-but-slight acoustic romp".{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Andrew|date=October 28, 2014|url=https://www.spin.com/2014/10/taylor-swift-new-album-1989-review/|title=Taylor Swift Gets Clean, Hits Reset on New Album 1989|work=Spin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119025551/https://www.spin.com/2014/10/taylor-swift-new-album-1989-review/|archive-date=November 19, 2018|access-date=November 8, 2024|url-status=live }}

Some critics considered the lyrics straightforward and underwhelming.{{efn|Attributed to reviews by the Los Angeles Times{{'}} Mikael Wood and Business Insider{{'s}} Courteney Larocca.}} Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times described the lyricism as "clunky and bland at the same time",{{cite web |last=Wood |first=Mikael |date=October 27, 2014 |title=Taylor Swift Smooths Out the Wrinkles on Sleek 1989 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-review-taylor-swift-smooths-out-the-wrinkles-on-sleek-1989-20141027-story.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141115075319/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-review-taylor-swift-smooths-out-the-wrinkles-on-sleek-1989-20141027-story.html |archive-date=November 15, 2014 |access-date=November 8, 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times}} and Courteney Larocca of Business Insider thought that the lyrics were disappointing to Swift's female fans.{{Cite web |last=Larocca |first=Courteney |date=October 30, 2019 |title=17 of the Best and 17 of the Worst Taylor Swift Songs of All Time |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/best-worst-taylor-swift-songs |access-date=September 29, 2024 |website=Business Insider |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412223411/https://www.businessinsider.com/best-worst-taylor-swift-songs |archive-date=April 12, 2024 |url-status=live |url-access=limited}} She highlighted the problematic nature of encouraging men to persistently pursue their ex-girlfriends, arguing that relationships typically end for valid reasons. Allie Volpe of The Seattle Times and Eakin deemed "How You Get the Girl" one of 1989{{'s}} fillers that Swift made in order to make it have a total of thirteen tracks.{{Cite news |last=Volpe |first=Allie |date=October 31, 2014 |title=Taylor Swift, 1989: A Track-by-Track Review |newspaper=The Seattle Times |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-lsquo1989rsquo-a-track-by-track-review/ |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=November 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327131805/https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-lsquo1989rsquo-a-track-by-track-review/ |archive-date=March 27, 2023 }} In 2019, Larocca considered it one of her 17 worst songs, while Vulture{{'s}} Nate Jones placed it at number 126 out of 245 songs in a 2024 ranking of her discography, dubbing it the "breeziest and least complicated" song out of her "guy-standing-on-a-doorstep" songs.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Nate |date=May 20, 2024 |title=All 245 Taylor Swift Songs, Ranked |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/all-taylor-swift-songs-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html |access-date=September 29, 2024 |website=Vulture |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240920043247/https://www.vulture.com/article/all-taylor-swift-songs-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html |archive-date=September 20, 2024 |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}

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Prior to its release, "How You Get the Girl" was used in a Diet Coke advertisement in which the number of cats increased whenever Swift took a sip from a can of Diet Coke. The advertisement featured her cat, Olivia Benson.{{cite magazine |last=Zuckerman |first=Esther |date=October 15, 2014 |title=Taylor Swift's Diet Coke Ad Features New 1989 Song and a Lot of Cats |url=https://ew.com/article/2014/10/15/taylor-swifts-diet-coke-ad-features-new-1989-song-and-a-hundred-or-so-cats/ |access-date=September 28, 2024 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |archive-date=August 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820150941/https://ew.com/article/2014/10/15/taylor-swifts-diet-coke-ad-features-new-1989-song-and-a-hundred-or-so-cats/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Eames |first=Tom |date=October 16, 2014 |title=Taylor Swift Magically Creates Kittens in New Diet Coke Ad |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a603852/taylor-swift-magically-creates-kittens-in-new-diet-coke-ad/ |access-date=September 28, 2024 |website=Digital Spy |archive-date=March 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320195631/https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a603852/taylor-swift-magically-creates-kittens-in-new-diet-coke-ad/ |url-status=live }} Swift included "How You Get the Girl" in the set list of the 1989 World Tour (2015).{{cite web |last=Corner |first=Lewis |date=May 5, 2015 |title=Take a Look at Taylor Swift Dazzling Tokyo on Opening Night of 1989 World Tour |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/music/a645753/take-a-look-at-taylor-swift-dazzling-tokyo-on-opening-night-of-1989-world-tour/ |access-date=November 18, 2024 |website=Digital Spy |archive-date=November 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241118155716/https://www.digitalspy.com/music/a645753/take-a-look-at-taylor-swift-dazzling-tokyo-on-opening-night-of-1989-world-tour/ |url-status=live }} She sang it wearing a glowing pink polka dot two piece dress, accompanied by choreography performed by backup dancers with neon umbrellas.{{cite magazine |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |date=July 11, 2015 |title=Taylor Swift's Epic '1989' Tour: Every Night with Us Is Like a Dream |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/taylor-swifts-epic-1989-tour-every-night-with-us-is-like-a-dream-191845/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413001431/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/taylor-swifts-epic-1989-tour-every-night-with-us-is-like-a-dream-191845/ |archive-date=April 13, 2020 |access-date=September 28, 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}{{cite web |last=Pollock |first=David |date=June 27, 2015 |title=Taylor Swift, Hydro Glasgow, Gig Review: Two-Hour Hyperactive Spectacle Is a Triumph for Both the Artist and Her Fans |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/taylor-swift-hydro-glasgow-review-two-hour-hyperactive-spectacle-triumph-both-artist-and-her-fans-10340800.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106070008/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/taylor-swift-hydro-glasgow-review-two-hour-hyperactive-spectacle-triumph-both-artist-and-her-fans-10340800.html |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |access-date=September 28, 2024 |work=The Independent}} According to several media publications, the choreography evoked the themes of the musical film Singin' in the Rain (1952).{{efn|Attributed to The Independent{{'s}} David Pollock, The Observer{{'s}} Kitty Empire,{{cite web |last=Empire |first=Kitty |author-link=Kitty Empire |date=June 28, 2015 |title=Taylor Swift Review – Poet of Kiss and Tell |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/28/taylor-swift-review-poet-laureate-life-art-cusp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024024336/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/28/taylor-swift-review-poet-laureate-life-art-cusp |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |access-date=November 9, 2024 |work=The Observer}} The San Diego Union-Tribune{{'s}} George Varga,{{Cite news |last=Varga |first=George |date=August 24, 2016 |title=Taylor Swift Sweats It Off at Steamy Petco Park Show |newspaper=The San Diego Union-Tribune |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2015/08/30/taylor-swift-sweats-it-off-at-steamy-petco-park-show/ |url-status=live |access-date=November 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240702061906/https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2015/08/30/taylor-swift-sweats-it-off-at-steamy-petco-park-show/ |archive-date=July 2, 2024 }} Vulture{{'s}} Claire Landsbaum,{{Cite web |last=Landsbaum |first=Claire |date=June 9, 2015 |title=We Re-Created Taylor Swift's 1989 World Tour for You |url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/06/we-re-created-taylor-swifts-1989-world-tour.html |access-date=November 9, 2024 |website=Vulture |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411053537/https://www.vulture.com/2015/06/we-re-created-taylor-swifts-1989-world-tour.html |archive-date=April 11, 2023 |url-status=live |url-access=limited }} and BBC News{{'}} Neil Smith.{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Neil |date=June 28, 2015 |title=Taylor Swift and Friends Leave Their Mark on Hyde Park |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33303397 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206093250/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33303397 |archive-date=December 6, 2021 |access-date=November 9, 2024 |publisher=BBC News }}}} Swift performed "How You Get the Girl" on acoustic guitar during the second Dublin show of the Reputation Stadium Tour (2018) and the first Sydney show of the Eras Tour (2023–2024).{{cite magazine |last=Iasimone |first=Ashley |date=November 20, 2018 |title=All the Surprise Songs Taylor Swift Has Performed on Her Reputation Stadium Tour B-Stage |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8458025/taylor-swift-reputation-tour-b-stage-songs-list |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227045220/https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/taylor-swift-reputation-tour-b-stage-songs-list-8458025/ |archive-date=February 27, 2024 |access-date=September 28, 2024 |magazine=Billboard }}{{Cite news |last=West |first=Bryan |author-link=Bryan West (journalist) |date=February 16, 2024 |title=All the Mashups Taylor Swift Played In During Her Eras Tour Secret Set in Australia |newspaper=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/02/16/eras-tour-in-australia-tracking-taylor-swifts-secret-songs/72607816007/ |url-status=live |access-date=September 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220234200/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/02/16/eras-tour-in-australia-tracking-taylor-swifts-secret-songs/72607816007/ |archive-date=February 20, 2024 }} She played the track on piano during the final Atlanta and New Orleans shows of the Eras Tour, the latter performance in a mashup with her song "Clean" (2014).{{cite web |last=Gomez |first=Dessi |date=August 20, 2024 |title=All the Surprise Songs Taylor Swift Has Played on Her Eras Tour So Far |url=https://deadline.com/feature/taylor-swift-surprise-songs-eras-tour-1235928594/ |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=September 28, 2024 |archive-date=September 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240920043301/https://deadline.com/feature/taylor-swift-surprise-songs-eras-tour-1235928594/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Katie Louise |date=October 28, 2024 |title=Every Surprise Song Performed on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour So Far |url=https://www.capitalfm.com/artists/taylor-swift/eras-tour-surprise-songs-setlist/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909171138/https://www.capitalfm.com/artists/taylor-swift/eras-tour-surprise-songs-setlist/ |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |access-date=October 27, 2024 |publisher=Capital}} During the final Stockholm show of the tour, Swift performed "How You Get the Girl" on acoustic guitar as part of a medley with her singles "Message in a Bottle" (2021) and "New Romantics" (2016). She dedicated the performance to Martin, who was present in the audience.{{Cite news |last=West |first=Bryan |author-link=Bryan West (journalist) |date=May 19, 2024 |title=Taylor Swift Performs 'Max Martin Medley' in Sweden on Final Night of Stockholm Eras Tour: Watch |newspaper=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/05/19/taylor-swift-eras-tour-stockholm-max-martin-medley/73696672007/ |url-status=live |access-date=September 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923062015/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/05/19/taylor-swift-eras-tour-stockholm-max-martin-medley/73696672007/ |archive-date=September 23, 2024 }}{{cite magazine |last=Legaspi |first=Althea |date=May 19, 2024 |title=Taylor Swift Debuts 'How Did It End?' at Final 2024 Eras Tour Date in Sweden |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-how-did-it-end-live-debut-max-martin-medley-sweden-1235023740/ |url-status=live |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240623003953/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-how-did-it-end-live-debut-max-martin-medley-sweden-1235023740/ |archive-date=June 23, 2024 |access-date=November 8, 2024 |url-access=limited }}

Ryan Adams, an American singer-songwriter, recorded "How You Get the Girl" as part of his track-by-track cover album of 1989, which was released on September 21, 2015.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Nate |date=September 17, 2015 |title=Ryan Adams Is Finally Releasing His 1989 Covers Album; Listen to His 'Bad Blood' |url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/09/ryan-adams-is-releasing-his-1989-covers-album.html |url-access=limited |access-date=November 9, 2024 |website=Vulture |archive-date=December 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231229050331/https://www.vulture.com/2015/09/ryan-adams-is-releasing-his-1989-covers-album.html |url-status=live}} He stated that Swift's 1989 helped him cope with emotional hardships and that he wanted to interpret the songs from his perspective "like it was Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska".{{Cite magazine |last=Browne |first=David |author-link=David Browne (journalist) |date=September 21, 2015 |title=Ryan Adams on His Full-Album Cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ryan-adams-on-his-full-album-taylor-swift-cover-you-just-have-to-mean-it-59783/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925011831/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ryan-adams-on-his-full-album-taylor-swift-cover-you-just-have-to-mean-it-59783/ |archive-date=September 25, 2023 |access-date=November 9, 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone}} Described by Swift as a "neat twist on the original", Adams's version of "How You Get the Girl" forgoes the original's upbeat production in favor of an acoustic guitar and string arrangement.{{cite magazine |last=Linker |first=Damon |date=October 23, 2015 |title=Taylor Swift and the Rise of Robot Music |url=https://theweek.com/articles/584633/taylor-swift-rise-robot-music |url-status=live |magazine=The Week |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511100345/https://theweek.com/articles/584633/taylor-swift-rise-robot-music |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |access-date=November 9, 2024 |url-access=limited }}{{cite web |last=Cragg |first=Michael |date=September 22, 2015 |title=Ryan Adams's Take on Taylor Swift's 1989 – First Listen Track-by-Track Review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/22/review-ryan-adams-taylor-swift-1989-first-listen-track-by-track |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240618194010/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/22/review-ryan-adams-taylor-swift-1989-first-listen-track-by-track |archive-date=June 18, 2024 |access-date=November 9, 2024 |work=The Guardian }} Adams kept the pronouns that Swift had used in the song the same as her version. Entertainment Weekly{{'s}} Leah Greenblatt described his version as a "pretty, ruminative ballad",{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2015/09/21/ryan-adams-1989-review/|title=1989 by Ryan Adams: EW Review|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|first=Leah|last=Greenblatt|date=September 21, 2015|access-date=November 20, 2024|archive-date=August 27, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827052434/https://ew.com/article/2015/09/21/ryan-adams-1989-review/|url-status=live}} while Unterberger considered the balladic production unremarkable.{{cite web|last=Unterberger|first=Andrew|date=September 23, 2015|url=https://www.spin.com/2015/09/ryan-adams-1989-a-worthwhile-disappointment-taylor-swift/|title=Ryan Adams' 1989: A Worthwhile Disappointment|work=Spin|access-date=November 8, 2024|archive-date=November 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127134635/https://www.spin.com/2015/09/ryan-adams-1989-a-worthwhile-disappointment-taylor-swift/|url-status=live}} Billboard{{'s}} Chris Payne picked it as his sixth-favorite track on the cover album, adding that "flipping the song's speaker and subject elicits all kinds of dynamics worth pondering".{{Cite magazine |last=Payne |first=Chris |date=September 21, 2015 |title=We Ranked All of Ryan Adams' Covers of Taylor Swift's 1989 |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/taylor-swift-ryan-adams-1989-ranked-worst-best-cover-6700825/ |access-date=November 20, 2024 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=August 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802081252/https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/taylor-swift-ryan-adams-1989-ranked-worst-best-cover-6700825/ |url-status=live }}

Credits shown below are adapted from the liner notes of the album 1989.

• Taylor Swift – lead vocals, background vocals, songwriter
• Max Martin – producer, songwriter, programmer, keyboards
• Shellback – producer, songwriter, programmer, bass guitar, drums, guitars, keyboards
• Michael Ilbert – recording engineer
• Sam Holland – recording engineer
• Cory Bice – assistant recording engineer
• Serban Ghenea – mixer
• Tom Coyne – mastering engineer

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{{Infobox song

| name = How You Get the Girl (Taylor's Version)

| type = song

| artist = Taylor Swift

| album = 1989 (Taylor's Version)

| released = October 27, 2023

| studio = * Kitty Committee (New York)

| genre =

| length = {{Duration|m=4|s=7}}

| label = Republic

| writer = *Taylor Swift

• Max Martin
• Shellback

| producer = *Taylor Swift

• Christopher Rowe

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|rnwD7veCoFQ|"How You Get the Girl (Taylor's Version)"}}|type=song|header=Lyric video}}

}}

Swift departed from Big Machine and signed with Republic Records in November{{nbsp}}2018.{{Cite magazine |last1=Willman |first1=Chris |last2=Aswad |first2=Jem |date=November 19, 2018 |title=Taylor Swift Signs Landmark New Deal with Universal Music Group |url=https://variety.com/2018/music/news/taylor-swift-news-alert-1203032124/ |access-date=September 29, 2024 |magazine=Variety |archive-date=November 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119184301/https://variety.com/2018/music/news/taylor-swift-news-alert-1203032124/ |url-status=live }} She began re-recording her first six studio albums in November{{nbsp}}2020.{{Cite magazine |last=Aniftos |first=Rania |date=November 17, 2020 |title=Here's Everything Taylor Swift Has Said About Re-Recording Her Songs |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/everyone-taylor-swift-said-re-recording-her-songs-9485702/ |access-date=November 7, 2024 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=November 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231112205619/https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/everyone-taylor-swift-said-re-recording-her-songs-9485702/ |url-status=live }} The decision followed a public dispute in 2019 between her and the talent manager Scooter Braun, who acquired Big Machine including the masters of her albums which the label had released.{{Cite news |date=August 22, 2019 |title=Taylor Swift Wants to Re-Record Her Old Hits |publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49432817 |url-status=live |access-date=September 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822202321/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49432817 |archive-date=August 22, 2019}}{{cite news |last=Finnis |first=Alex |date=November 17, 2020 |title=Taylor Swift Masters: The Controversy Around Scooter Braun Selling the Rights to Her Old Music Explained |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/music/taylor-swift-masters-scooter-braun-selling-rights-music-rerecording-row-explained-762411 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212170953/https://inews.co.uk/culture/music/taylor-swift-masters-scooter-braun-selling-rights-music-rerecording-row-explained-762411 |archive-date=February 12, 2021 |access-date=September 29, 2024 |newspaper=i}} By re-recording the albums, Swift had full ownership of the new masters, which enabled her to control the licensing of her songs for commercial use and therefore substitute the Big Machine–owned masters.{{Cite news |last=Shah |first=Neil |date=April 9, 2021 |title=Taylor Swift Releases New Fearless Album, Reclaiming Her Back Catalog |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/taylor-swift-releases-new-fearless-album-reclaiming-her-back-catalog-11617945524 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008111731/https://www.wsj.com/articles/taylor-swift-releases-new-fearless-album-reclaiming-her-back-catalog-11617945524 |archive-date=October 8, 2021 }}

The re-recording of "How You Get the Girl", subtitled "Taylor's Version", was released as part of Swift's fourth re-recorded album, 1989 (Taylor's Version), on October 27, 2023.{{cite web |last=D'Souza |first=Shaad |date=October 30, 2023 |title=Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor's Version) Album Review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030073002/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version/ |archive-date=October 30, 2023 |access-date=October 30, 2023 |website=Pitchfork}} She produced the track with Christopher Rowe, who recorded her vocals at Kitty Committee Studio in New York. It was engineered by Derek Garten at Prime Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee; mixed by Ghenea at MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia; and mastered by Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound in Edgewater, New Jersey. "How You Get the Girl (Taylor's Version)" is four minutes and seven seconds long.{{Cite web |last=Swift |first=Taylor |author-link=Taylor Swift |date=October 27, 2023 |title=1989 (Taylor's Version) |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/1989-taylors-version/1708308989 |publisher=Apple Music (US) |access-date=November 20, 2024 |archive-date=October 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231024235308/https://music.apple.com/us/album/1989-taylors-version/1708308989 |url-status=live }}

Reviewing "How You Get the Girl (Taylor's Version)", critics praised the song's production and energetic sound.{{efn|Attributed to reviews by The Atlantic{{'s}} Spencer Kornhaber, Slant Magazine{{'s}} Jonathan Keefe, and Rolling Stone UK{{'s}} Mark Sutherland.}} The Atlantic{{'s}} Spencer Kornhaber deemed it one of 1989 (Taylor's Version){{'s}} adrenaline-pumping and centerpiece tracks,{{Cite magazine |last=Kornhaber |first=Spencer |date=October 31, 2023 |title=Taylor Swift's Tinder Masterpiece |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/10/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-review/675853/ |url-access=limited |access-date=November 10, 2024 |magazine=The Atlantic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007101151/https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/10/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-review/675853/ |archive-date=October 7, 2024 |url-status=live }} and Slant Magazine{{'s}} Jonathan Keefe commented that the production "packs even greater heft" on the new version and considered it one of the tracks that validates the re-recorded album.{{Cite magazine |last=Keefe |first=Jonathan |date=October 30, 2023 |title=Taylor Swift 1989 (Taylor's Version) Review: A Poptimist Through Line |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-album-review/ |access-date=September 29, 2024 |magazine=Slant Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417180101/https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-album-review/ |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |url-status=live}} Mark Sutherland from Rolling Stone UK lauded the song's "irresistible groove" and wrote although "How You Get the Girl (Taylor's Version)" was not originally released as a single, it sounded like a "monster hit".{{Cite magazine |last=Sutherland |first=Mark |date=October 27, 2023 |title=Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor's Version) Could Be the Best Pop Album of 2023 |url=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/album-reviews/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-could-be-the-best-pop-album-of-2023-33809/ |access-date=September 29, 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone UK |archive-date=October 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029065149/https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/album-reviews/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-could-be-the-best-pop-album-of-2023-33809/ |url-status=live }} In a less enthusiastic review, Callie Ahlgrim of Business Insider likened the song's production to music on Radio Disney, describing the track as "cloying and juvenile" and regarding it as one of the album's five worst songs.{{Cite web |last=Ahlgrim |first=Callie |date=October 27, 2023 |title=The 5 Best and 5 Worst Songs on Taylor Swift's New Album 1989 (Taylor's Version) |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-1989-best-worst-songs-taylors-version-2023-10 |access-date=September 29, 2024 |website=Business Insider |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923055951/https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-1989-best-worst-songs-taylors-version-2023-10 |archive-date=September 23, 2024 |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}

"How You Get the Girl (Taylor's Version)" reached number 29 on the Billboard Global 200 chart dated November 11, 2023. It debuted at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, extending Swift's record for the most top-40 chart entries by a female artist.{{Cite magazine |last=Zellner |first=Xander |date=November 6, 2023 |title=Taylor Swift Charts All 21 Songs From 1989 (Taylor's Version) on the Hot 100 |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-all-songs-hot-100-1235464591/ |access-date=November 8, 2023 |magazine=Billboard |archive-date=November 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106204255/https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-all-songs-hot-100-1235464591/ |url-status=live }} "How You Get the Girl (Taylor's Version)" charted in Canada and New Zealand, with peaks of 34 and 31, respectively.

Credits shown below are adapted from the liner notes of the album 1989 (Taylor's Version).{{Cite AV media notes |last=Swift|first=Taylor|author-link=Taylor Swift |title=1989 (Taylor's Version) |year=2023 |publisher=Republic Records |id=0245597656 |type=Compact disc liner notes}}

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• Taylor Swift – lead vocals, background vocals, songwriter, producer
• Christopher Rowe – producer, vocals recording
• Derek Garten – additional programmer, engineer, digital editor
• Dan Burns – synth bass programmer, synth programmer, drums programmer, additional engineer
• Randy Merrill – mastering engineer
• Ryan Smith – mastering engineer
• Serban Ghenea – mixer
• Bryce Bordone – engineer for mix
• Matt Billingslea – drums programmer, percussion programmer
• Brian Pruitt – drums programmer, percussion programmer
• Max Bernstein – electric guitar, synthesizer
• Mike Meadows – acoustic guitar, synthesizer
• Amos Heller – bass guitar
• Paul Sidoti – electric guitar
• Max Martin – songwriter
• Shellback – songwriter

{{div col end}}

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• {{cite journal |last=McNutt |first=Myles |year=2020 |title=From 'Mine' to 'Ours': Gendered Hierarchies of Authorship and the Limits of Taylor Swift's Paratextual Feminism |journal=Communication, Culture and Critique |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=72–91 |doi=10.1093/ccc/tcz042 |publisher=International Communication Association }}
• {{Cite book |last=Zaleski |first=Annie |author-link=Annie Zaleski |title=Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs |publisher=Thunder Bay Press |year=2024 |isbn=978-1-6672-0845-9 |pages=106–131 |chapter=The 1989 Era}}

{{Taylor Swift songs}}

Category:2010s ballads

Category:2014 songs

Category:Song recordings produced by Chris Rowe

Category:Song recordings produced by Max Martin

Category:Song recordings produced by Shellback (record producer)

Category:Song recordings produced by Taylor Swift

Category:Songs written by Max Martin

Category:Songs written by Shellback (record producer)

Category:Songs written by Taylor Swift

Category:Taylor Swift songs

Category:Electropop ballads

Category:Bubblegum pop songs

Category:Ryan Adams songs