Taylor Swift has debuted the video for Style, the third single from her colossal pop album 1989. Set partly on the beach and partly in the woods, it’s a cute, arty promo clip that often looks as if it’s been put through a variety of bleary Instagram filters. Taylor looks great working the “red lip classic thing” from the song’s lyrics, and her English co-star Dominic Sherwood is a suitably beautiful, brooding love interest, but there’s nothing to rival the best bits from her last video, Blank Space – remember Taylor standing on top of a horse? That was amazing. This video delivers the style of the song’s title, but fewer GIF-making opportunities.
The most interesting moment arrives at the 3.23 mark with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it glimpse of Taylor holding a paper airplane necklace. According to Swiftlore, this necklace is a gift Harry Styles gave the singer back when they were dating. Is this Taylor’s way of sneakily confirming that she wrote Style about the One Direction star, or is she just teasing us? Can you imagine Harry with a “James Dean daydream look” in his eye like Taylor sings on the chorus? Let the Twitter debate commence…