Style

“Style” is a Taylor Swift song whose appearances connect public celebration with private remembrance. At prom, it sends Lara Jean, Peter, and their friends into an exuberant dance; in a photograph later placed in a keepsake scrapbook, it recalls another performance by the couple and the memories attached to it.

Prom and Shared Celebration

At prom, “Style” comes on while Lara Jean and Peter are dancing with their friends. The group screams in one another’s faces and jumps up and down, and Peter is the most exuberant of all. He keeps checking whether Lara Jean is enjoying the night; she answers with her eyes, sharing her happiness without needing to interrupt the music. The song thus accompanies not just a dance but a moment of mutual reassurance, as their delight becomes visible to each other and to the surrounding group.

The song’s place in the evening also belongs to a larger farewell. After the dancing, Lara Jean reflects that the high-school version of the two of them will not return, even though summer still lies ahead. “Style” is part of the prom’s collective energy, while the evening’s last dance brings the approaching end of their shared school life into focus. The song’s exuberance and the dance’s bittersweet finality sit side by side.

A Song Preserved in Memory

A later scrapbook photograph records Lara Jean and Peter singing together at karaoke with Lara Jean’s grandmother. Lara Jean had sung “You’re So Vain” for Peter; Peter sang “Style” by Taylor Swift, then joined her grandmother in a duet of “Unchained Melody.” The photograph preserves more than a performance: the grandmother’s selfies with Peter, her promise that the two would take a Korean-language class at UVA, and her delight in telling friends that Peter looked like a movie star all belong to the remembered occasion.

When Lara Jean gives Peter the scrapbook, he pauses at this page and asks whether she had wanted to keep it. She explains that she thought he should have it and asks him to keep it forever. The song therefore returns not as background music but as part of an image handed from one person to another: Peter looks through a memory of himself with Lara Jean and her grandmother, and the page becomes something for him to keep as their relationship changes.

Recurrence and Meaning

The prom dance and the karaoke photograph give “Style” two distinct settings: a crowded celebration among friends and an intimate family memory. In both, the song is bound to Peter and Lara Jean’s shared experience, but its function shifts. At prom, it animates a present-tense expression of joy; in the scrapbook, it helps make a past gathering available for remembrance.

That shift suits the larger pattern of the story, in which celebrations mark both togetherness and transition. The prom night is a farewell to one particular version of the couple, while the scrapbook carries selected moments forward. “Style” links those moments—not as a guarantee that nothing will change, but as a recognizable thread in the history the couple has made together.