Taylor Swift - Teardrops On My Guitar

What this video is

Released to US country radio on February 20, 2007, 'Teardrops on My Guitar' was the second single from Taylor Swift's self-titled debut album (Big Machine Records, 2006) and became her breakthrough crossover hit, peaking at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching the top 10 on the Pop Songs chart. The music video — set entirely within a Nashville high school — visually codified Swift's early artistic identity: a…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of the country-pop crossover movement of the late 2000s. The video's high school realism and confessional narrative style established a visual grammar for Swift's early career and influenced the aesthetic template for subsequent country-pop female artists. Its dual CMT and MTV…

The director

Trey Fanjoy is an American music video director born in South Carolina who moved to Nashville in the mid-1990s. She studied acting under Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York before transitioning to music video production via Picture…