The video focuses on flashbacks by Swift's love interest, among cut scenes that feature Swift lying on a lake shore. The video received a nomination for Number One Streamed Video From a New Artist at the 2006 CMT Online Awards.[1] At the 2007 CMT Music Awards, it won Breakthrough Video of the Year.[2]
Swift is seen performing in various settings, including a front porch. At the 2008 CMT Music Awards, the video earned Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year.[6]
Swift performs with her band in a ballroom. An alternate version of the video features footage from the United States Olympic team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[12]
Based on William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the music video is a period piece focusing on Swift meeting her boyfriend in a current-day university campus while also remembering meeting each other and falling in love in a past life. The video replaces the original novel's tragic conclusion with a happy ending. At the 2009 CMT Music Awards, the video won the awards for Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year.[14]
The video was filmed using green screen with heavy usage of special effects. Swift walks through a garden, where she relives many school memories with her best friend.
When Pickler sees her boyfriend cheating on her, she leaves him. He finds his life miserable with his new girlfriend and misses being with Pickler instead.
Swift does not appear in the music video, but her vocals are still heard. The video shows the story of a couple's relationship while Boys Like Girls are shown performing in what appears to be an empty hangar.
The video documents the lives of four different people being bullied in different stages and time settings. However, their lives get better in the end of the video.
Swift is seen narrating the eponymous book in a college library. The scenes cut back and forth between her and her ex-boyfriend and students in the library.
It primarily takes place in an office with Swift working and seeing various videos of her and her boyfriend. It ends with them embracing each other as he returns from the military.
The video features Swift walking barefoot through a gloomy forest while The Civil Wars are inside a cottage in front of a fireplace singing along to the song. The video contains multiple references to The Hunger Games, including Swift finding a mockingjay pin.
The music video was filmed to appear as if Swift and Fernandes were performing the song at the same time while connected via satellite, with scenes featuring Fernandes filmed in Brazil and scenes featuring Swift filmed during a show in the United States.
The video highlights the dangers of driving while distracted, particularly texting and driving. It sees an accident as a result of a similar situation.
Two children, a girl resembling Swift and a boy resembling Sheeran, meet each other on a bus to elementary school and become friends. Throughout the video, they are seen painting their faces, pretending to be a princess and knight, and dancing with each other in the empty school gym.
The video is different from Swift's previous work, featuring her in a darker, more abstract, light. The video is a recollection of memories of Swift's love interest, played by model Dominic Sherwood, amongst some flashing scenes of beaches, forests and car rides.
Set in the 1950s, the video focuses on Swift and her acting leading man love interest filming a romance movie. At the film's premiere, Swift is heartbroken when she sees her love interest with his wife and flees the premiere. All of the proceeds from the video went to wild animal conservation efforts through the African Parks Foundation of America.[55]
The video finds Swift running from the elements on several locations, such as a beach, the snowy mountains, an ocean, a barren landscape, a muddy swamp, and a burning forest, all in an effort to find herself.
The video features several of her previous public personas—including a ballet dancer, a circus marshall and a studious high school student—and takes jabs at the fictionalized portrayals of her in the media. The Neil Lane diamonds used in the video were revealed to be authentic and costed over US $10 million.[60] The music video for the song broke the 24-Hour Vevo Record with over 43 million views on its first day.[61]
Swift fights her deceptive hooded, dark, robotic counterpart for freedom from an invisible prison in which she is trapped. The video is set in a futuristic atmosphere and features sci-fi and anime references.
The video features Swift discovering that she is invisible after a mystery man hands her a note. She is later seen dancing carelessly through a hotel, public transportation and rainy streets.
The video is filmed in one take in a vertical format and features Swift singing the song in a park. It was released exclusively on Spotify in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Latin America.[68]
The video features Brandon Routh and Jennifer Nettles as a married couple while Swift plays the role of a secretary who is in an affair with her married boss (Routh).
The video features Swift and Urie as a couple who get into a fight before Swift storms out into a colorful wonderland. The video broke the Vevo record, as well as the YouTube record for most views in the first 24 hours for a lead female video, and the third most-viewed overall earning 65.2 million views.[72]
Swift lives in a trailer park, hanging out in a swimming pool as her trailer burns behind her. A pop queen pageant is also held and Swift reunites with Katy Perry as she hugs her wearing a french fries costume while Perry wore a hamburger costume.
Swift and dancer Christian Owens portray a couple who live in a colorful house inside a snow globe, which they later give to their daughter as a Christmas present.