Style marker
The "T-Drop" (4̂-3̂-6̂)
Swift has her own melodic signature [...]: a three-note melodic motif [usually descending from 4̂ to 3̂ and then to 6̂] that we've termed the "T Drop."
— Nate Sloan & Charlie Harding, Switched On Pop (2020), p. 22
It first appears in You Belong With Me (2008) and is a consistent feature of her writing since then.
Style marker
3̂-7̂-1̂ cadence
Taylor Swift often ends vocal phrases by singing 3̂, dropping to 7̂, then rising to 1̂.
Connection
These songs share
- The first and third measure of their intro guitar riffs (shown)
- A lyrical theme and some similar phrases ("I got him where I want him now" vs "I had him right there where I wanted him")
Connection
These lines have identical lyrics, an identical rhythm, and share four of their seven pitches.
Connection
The choruses of these songs
- Start their first two measures on a high 5̂
- Share identical rhythmes for the first measure and a half
- End their first phrase with a high melisma on 3̂-6̂-5̂, sung on "whoa"
Taylor Swift and Hayley Williams sang That's What You Get together at a concert in September 2011.
Connection
Similarities
These songs share a repeating series of six intervals in similar metric positions, each ending on the word "want."