How You Get The Girl
1989 (2014)
Background and Release
Taylor teased a little snippet of the song before the release of 1989 in a Diet Coke ad. The commercial co-stars her cat Olivia Benson and finds her surrounded by lots of kittens. She boasted about feline’s new career: “Behold, the Diet Coke ad that depicts my perfect world. Featuring a new song and Olivia, who is now a cat actress.”
Lyrical Theme
«The song ‘How You Get The Girl’ is a song that I wrote about how you get the girl back if you ruined the relationship somehow and she won’t talk to you anymore. Like, if you broke up with her and left her on her own for six months and then you realize you miss her. All the steps you have to do to edge your way back into her life, because she’s probably pretty mad at you. So it’s kind of a tutorial. If you follow the directions in the song, chances are things will work out. Or you may get a restraining order.»
Live Performances
Lyrics
[Intro]
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh
[Verse 1]
Stand there like a ghost shaking from the rain (Rain)
She’ll open up the door and say, “Are you insane?” (‘Ane)
Say, “It’s been a long six months”
And you were too afraid to tell her what you want
[Pre-chorus 1]
And that’s how it works
That’s how you get the girl
[Chorus]
And then you say,
“I want you for worse or for better
I would wait forever and ever
Broke your heart, I’ll put it back together
I would wait forever and ever”
And that’s how it works
That’s how you get the girl (Girl)
Oh, and that’s how it works
That’s how you get the girl (Girl)
[Verse 2]
Remind her how it used to be (Yeah, yeah)
With pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks (Cheeks)
Tell her how you must have lost your mind (Oh)
When you left her all alone, and never told her why (Why)
[Pre-chorus 2]
And that’s how it works
That’s how you lost the girl
[Chorus]
And now you say,
“I want you for worse or for better
I would wait forever and ever (Ever and ever)
Broke your heart, I’ll put it back together (Together)
I would wait forever and ever” (Ever and ever)
And that’s how it works
That’s how you get the girl (Girl)
Oh, and that’s how it works
That’s how you get the girl (Yeah, yeah)
[Bridge]
And you know (Oh-oh oh oh, oh-oh oh oh)
That I don’t want you to go
Remind me how it used to be
Pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks
And say you want me
Yeah
[Chorus Variation x4]
And that’s how it works
That’s how you get the girl (Girl)
Oh-oh oh oh
[Outro]
That’s how it works
That’s how you got the girl
| Album | 1989 | |||
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| Released | October 27, 2014 | |||
| Recorded | January 15, 2013 | |||
| Studio | Conway (Los Angeles) MXM (Stockholm) | |||
| Genre | Bubblegum Pop | |||
| Length | 4:08 | |||
| Label | Big Machine Records | |||
| Songwriters | Taylor Swift Max Martin Shellback | |||
| Producers | Max Martin Shellback | |||
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