Style (song)
| Style | |
|---|---|
| Taylor Swift | |
| publication | February 9, 2015 |
| length | 3:51 |
| Genre (s) | Pop , pop-rock |
| Author (s) | Taylor Swift , Max Martin , Shellback , Ali Payami |
| Label | Big Machine Records , Republic Records |
| album | 1989 |
Style is a song by the American singer Taylor Swift . The song is the third single from Swift's 1989 album and was released on February 9, 2015. Style was alone in the United States sold more than 1.59 million times, making the song by the Recording Industry Association of America with 3-times platinum award.
background
Like Swift's fifth studio album in 1989 , which includes Style , the song was written and produced by Swedish music producers Max Martin and Shellback , alongside Swift himself . Ali Payami also co-produced this song.
Musical and content
Style is written in D major and has a tempo of 92 beats per minute . Swift's vocal range ranges from B 3 to D 5 . According to Swift, the song describes a relationship in which both partners meet other people, but always think of the other partner. This is also made clear by the following passage in the bridge :
- Bridge, original excerpt
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- Bridge, German translation
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Some media suspected that Swift was addressing her former boyfriend Harry Styles with this song , which Swift neither confirmed nor denied.
Reviews
Style received a positive response from the critics. Kai Butterweck from Laut.de wrote in the context of the album review for 1989 about Style : "Songs like the" Style "pepped up with funky guitars [...] prove that a studio in which good pop music is to be created does not necessarily have to look like this Interior of a space shuttle cockpit. Less is sometimes more". The Guardian described Style as "a leaked funk-pop number that satisfies on every level". Jon Caramanica of the New York Times called the song the highlight of the album and compared it to the Miami Vice soundtrack. The Los Angeles Times called Style a "sensual funk pop song".
Music video
The music video for Style was directed by Kyle Newman . In addition to Swift himself, Dominic Sherwood plays Swift's friend in the music video . The video starts with a silhouette of Swift's head showing her boyfriend standing on a coast. This is followed by scenes with various flashbacks, interrupted by scenes in which the friend wakes up in a bed. When the chorus begins, the Dominic holds a shard in front of his face in which Swift's lips can be seen overlaying his lips. More scenes follow in which images of Swift and her boyfriend are superimposed through the mirror. In the further course of the video you can see both people in a room with dimmed lights where they are kissing. The video ends with the man stopping his car and Swift, who was sitting on the ground in the forest in front of the car, gets up and walks over to him. Currently (as of October 2018) the video has been viewed over 354 million times on Vevo and over 558 million times on YouTube.
Commercial win
Due to the release of the album in 1989 and the resulting high digital purchases by Style , the song was already able to enter the Billboard Hot 100 at number 60 on November 15, 2014 , but fell out of these charts again in the coming week. By appearing at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2014, the song was able to enter these charts again. Style achieved the highest ranking on the Billboard Hot 100 at # 6 and spent a total of nine weeks in the top 10. It was Swift's seventeenth top 10 hit in the United States at the time and the third top 10 song from their 1989 album. In December 2015, Swift was awarded triple platinum for Style by the Recording Industry Association of America .
Style entered the UK single charts on February 21, 2015 at number 65 and stayed in the charts for a total of 19 weeks. Although it did not reach the top 20 in these charts, Style was still sold over 400,000 times, which earned the song a gold record from the British Phonographic Industry . In the German music charts was style less successful. With interruptions, the song spent a total of seven weeks in these charts, with number 76, the highest ranking was reached on April 21, 2015. In Austria the song reached number 28, and entry into the Swiss charts was missed. Style achieved further top 10 placements in Australia and Canada.
Trivia
In addition to other lines of text from her 1989 album , Swift also had the text line “Cause we never go out of style” from Style protected by trademark law. The use of these lines of text, for example as a print on merchandise clothing, is therefore not permitted without Swift's consent.
Chart placements
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Awards for music sales
Style has so far been awarded 2 × gold and 8 × platinum worldwide. According to awards, the single was sold more than 3.7 million times.
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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 Australia (ARIA)
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 2 × platinum
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140,000 |
 Canada (MC)
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3 × platinum
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240,000 |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
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 gold
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7,500 |
 United States (RIAA)
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3 × platinum
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3,000,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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gold
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400,000 |
| All in all |
2 × gold 8 × platinum |
3,787,500 |
Main article: Taylor Swift / Music Sales Awards
Formats
Style is only available as a download, with a CD single released only in the UK as a promotional record .
Download
- Style - 3:51
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2015 YEAR-TO-DATE MARKETSHARE AT THE FOUR-MONTH MARK. HITS Daily Double, May 22, 2015, accessed December 15, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Gold and Platinum. Recording Industry Association of America , accessed December 15, 2015 .
- ^ Taylor Swift 'Style' Sheet Music. Musicnotes.com, accessed December 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Taylor Swift's "Style" Music Video debuts. (No longer available online.) E! Entertainment Television , archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; accessed on December 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christine Distasio: Taylor Swift's "Style" From '1989' Is Probably About Harry Styles - LISTEN. Bustle.com, October 23, 2015, accessed December 15, 2015 .
- ^ Neil McCormick: Ryan Adams, 1989, review: 'beautifully evokes the ghosts in Taylor Swift's pop machine'. In: The Telegraph . September 22, 2015, accessed December 16, 2015 .
- ^ A b Mikael Wood: Review Taylor Swift smooths out the wrinkles on sleek '1989'. In: Los Angeles Times . October 27, 2014, accessed December 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Josh Eels: The Reinvention of Taylor Swift. In: Rolling Stone . September 8, 2014, accessed December 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Kai Butterweck: From the country success track to pop heaven. Laut.de , accessed on December 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Taylor Swift: 1989 review - a bold, gossipy confection. In: The Guardian . October 26, 2014, accessed December 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Jon Caramanica: A Farewell to Twang. In: The New York Times . October 23, 2015, accessed December 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Music video Taylor Swift - Style. VEVO , accessed on December 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Music video Taylor Swift - Style. YouTube , accessed December 16, 2015 .
- ^ Gary Trust: Taylor Swift Leads Billboard Hot 100, Ed Sheeran Soars to Top 10. In: Billboard . December 17, 2014, accessed December 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Overview chart positions Taylor Swift - Style. Chartsurfer.de, accessed on December 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Taylor Swift - Style Chart Placement Australia. In: Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien, accessed December 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Carolin Gasteiger: My crazy beats. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 30, 2015, accessed December 15, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Hot 100 Songs Year End 2015. Billboard , accessed December 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Taylor Swift - Style Promo CD. Discogs , accessed December 16, 2015 .
