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How You Get the Girl
"How You Get the Girl" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). She wrote it with producers Max Martin and Shellback. An electropop and bubblegum pop song, "How You Get the Girl" is a ballad that features acoustic guitar strums and a heavy disco beat. The lyrics find Swift telling a man how to win his ex-girlfriend back after their breakup, and hint that it worked.
Some music critics praised the song as catchy and energetic; they particularly highlighted the chorus and how the track combines acoustic and electronic elements. Less enthusiastic reviews considered the production generic and the lyrics lightweight. "How You Get the Girl" charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart in the United States and on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. It received certifications in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Swift included "How You Get the Girl" in the set list of the 1989 World Tour (2015), with choreography that evoked the musical film Singin' in the Rain (1952). She performed it on some dates of her later tours, the Reputation Stadium Tour (2018) and the Eras Tour (2023–2024). The track was used in a Diet Coke advertisement prior to its release.
Following a 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of her back catalog, Swift re-recorded the song as "How You Get the Girl (Taylor's Version)" for her fourth re-recorded album, 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023). She produced the new version with Christopher Rowe. Music critics believed that the re-recording had a vibrant sound and an enhanced production quality. The track reached number 29 on the Billboard Global 200 chart and the top 40 on the national charts of Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.
Taylor Swift had identified as a country musician until her fourth studio album, Red (2012). The record incorporates eclectic pop and rock styles beyond the country stylings of her past albums, which led to journalists questioning her country-music identity. 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. Described by Swift as her first "official pop album", it was inspired by 1980s synth-pop and musical experimentation. Big Machine Records released 1989 on October 27, 2014, to critical praise and commercial success; "How You Get the Girl" is the album's tenth track.
In the United States, "How You Get the Girl" reached number four on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart dated November 15, 2014. In July 2018, it received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. The track also reached 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. Shellback additionally played bass guitar, drums, and guitars. 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.
"How You Get the Girl" is four minutes and seven seconds long. Music journalists identified it as an electropop and bubblegum pop track with a midtempo rhythm and a dreamy balladic atmosphere. The track incorporates reverberated acoustic guitar strums, a heavy disco-styled beat, radio-friendly vocal harmonies, and beatboxing vocal percussion. The Quietus's Amy Pettifer likened the "metaphorical distance and melancholy" of the song to the music of Cyndi Lauper, the Bangles, and Stevie Nicks, while Stereogum's Tom Breihan thought that "How You Get the Girl" had the shimmery elements of Debbie Gibson's music.
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". Swift described the track as a tutorial to a man on how to win his ex-girlfriend back, six months after he ruined their relationship. In the second verse, she 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". Swift 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"). 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"). Pettifer found the song's lyrical imagery similar to "saccharine fairy tales".
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How You Get the Girl
"How You Get the Girl" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). She wrote it with producers Max Martin and Shellback. An electropop and bubblegum pop song, "How You Get the Girl" is a ballad that features acoustic guitar strums and a heavy disco beat. The lyrics find Swift telling a man how to win his ex-girlfriend back after their breakup, and hint that it worked.
Some music critics praised the song as catchy and energetic; they particularly highlighted the chorus and how the track combines acoustic and electronic elements. Less enthusiastic reviews considered the production generic and the lyrics lightweight. "How You Get the Girl" charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart in the United States and on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. It received certifications in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Swift included "How You Get the Girl" in the set list of the 1989 World Tour (2015), with choreography that evoked the musical film Singin' in the Rain (1952). She performed it on some dates of her later tours, the Reputation Stadium Tour (2018) and the Eras Tour (2023–2024). The track was used in a Diet Coke advertisement prior to its release.
Following a 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of her back catalog, Swift re-recorded the song as "How You Get the Girl (Taylor's Version)" for her fourth re-recorded album, 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023). She produced the new version with Christopher Rowe. Music critics believed that the re-recording had a vibrant sound and an enhanced production quality. The track reached number 29 on the Billboard Global 200 chart and the top 40 on the national charts of Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.
Taylor Swift had identified as a country musician until her fourth studio album, Red (2012). The record incorporates eclectic pop and rock styles beyond the country stylings of her past albums, which led to journalists questioning her country-music identity. 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. Described by Swift as her first "official pop album", it was inspired by 1980s synth-pop and musical experimentation. Big Machine Records released 1989 on October 27, 2014, to critical praise and commercial success; "How You Get the Girl" is the album's tenth track.
In the United States, "How You Get the Girl" reached number four on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart dated November 15, 2014. In July 2018, it received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. The track also reached 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. Shellback additionally played bass guitar, drums, and guitars. 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.
"How You Get the Girl" is four minutes and seven seconds long. Music journalists identified it as an electropop and bubblegum pop track with a midtempo rhythm and a dreamy balladic atmosphere. The track incorporates reverberated acoustic guitar strums, a heavy disco-styled beat, radio-friendly vocal harmonies, and beatboxing vocal percussion. The Quietus's Amy Pettifer likened the "metaphorical distance and melancholy" of the song to the music of Cyndi Lauper, the Bangles, and Stevie Nicks, while Stereogum's Tom Breihan thought that "How You Get the Girl" had the shimmery elements of Debbie Gibson's music.
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". Swift described the track as a tutorial to a man on how to win his ex-girlfriend back, six months after he ruined their relationship. In the second verse, she 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". Swift 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"). 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"). Pettifer found the song's lyrical imagery similar to "saccharine fairy tales".