Dream pop is the first genre listed for Taylor Swift’s “august” on its song article.
The track is also described as incorporating guitar pop and soft rock. Its sound combines reverberant vocals, shimmering guitars, strings, keyboards, and restrained synthesizers, creating a hazy atmosphere that matches the song’s late-summer setting.
Genre labels can overlap, especially for a song that blends pop songwriting with rock instrumentation and atmospheric production. That is why guitar pop and soft rock are also associated with “august,” but dream pop is the first category presented in the article’s infobox.
The song is sometimes broadly called an indie or alternative track because of Folklore’s style, but those broader descriptions are not the specific first-listed genre. The precise answer is dream pop.