Cruel Summer
Song by Jack Antonoff, St. Vincent, and Taylor SwiftWikipedia
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Sep 8, 2026
LisaHOST
So for me, definitely, I'm just going to leave it as it is.
LisaHOST
I was thinking Cruel Summer.
LisaHOST
I think that I'm highly, highly, highly influenced by the era's tour.
LisaHOST
I know that Miss Americana is kind of there as a pre-intro, but it being that first proper fall song that we get from her really does feel, I don't know, it's just, it kind of makes me really, really equate Cruel Summer to the lover era.
LisaHOST
I don't
CameronHOST
know.
LisaHOST
answers to be honest with you
CameronHOST
no it is and that's that's the thing that's so hard is like how do you open an album whereas i feel like Because I thought, oh, OK, Mismar kind of feels like a kind of potentially more like I'm trying to think of like, I don't know, maybe a bit more Lavender Hazy intro into an album.
Stephen Gregory SmithHOST
You were yelling at the TV.
Stephen Gregory SmithHOST
It was a cruel, cruel summer.
Matt ConnerHOST
Yes.
Matt ConnerHOST
Yes,
J-BoGUEST
I don't know.
AnthonyHOST
Cruel Intentions? Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift.
J-BoGUEST
Seriously, how can you start rattling off seasons?
AnthonyHOST
All right, here's what's on the line for you, J-Bo.
ZachHOST
So, like, All Too Well at the Grammys, we've heard this.
ZachHOST
Cruel Summer becoming a single, we've heard this before.
ZachHOST
And th- that's amazing.
ZachHOST
Thank you.
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
I absolutely love her music.
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
um but you know i added you know i i had saxophone solos to a lot of pop songs yeah um i added a saxophone solo to that one and it was just like something about that one just resonated with like the way i want to sound and i felt like i really got something on that that i really liked um but as far as like the big big viral ones that's a tough question i think the Most viral video I had, both on TikTok and Instagram, was adding a saxophone solo to Taylor Swift's Cruel Summer.
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
Yeah, I saw
Imamu TomlinsonHOST
that.
Imamu TomlinsonHOST
Right, because people kind of want to hear...
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
They want to hear what they've heard before.
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
And with Cruel Summer, that was one where I leaned more towards the melody, and I didn't
JordanHOST
do
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
I absolutely love her music.
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
um but yeah i added you know i i add saxophone solos to a lot of pop songs yeah um i added a saxophone solo to that one and it was just like something about that one just resonated with like the way i want to sound and i felt like i really got something on that that i really liked um but as far as like the big big viral ones it's a tough question i think the Most viral video I had both on TikTok and Instagram was adding a saxophone solo to Taylor Swift's Cruel Summer.
Imamu TomlinsonHOST
Yeah, I saw that.
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Imamu TomlinsonHOST
Cause you gotta, you know, people kind of want to hear,
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
they want to hear what they've heard before.
Jeffrey StevensonGUEST
Um, and with Cruel Summer, that was one where I leaned more towards the melody and I didn't do too much of my own thing.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Yeah.
Kaelan StrouseGUEST
Mmm.
Zach Noe TowersHOST
And then, honestly, a banger of one that's still with me is Cruel Summer.
Zach Noe TowersHOST
Great.
Zach Noe TowersHOST
I mean, two of those are big radio hits, but I could list other songs.
Zach Noe TowersHOST
My Tears Ricochet.
Kaelan StrouseGUEST
Okay, so specifically Cruel Summer, are you at all in the Gaylor camp? No.
Kaelan StrouseGUEST
Have you watched the slide deck that's available on Reddit?
Zach Noe TowersHOST
No, but I am in the camp that she is...
LeviHOST
I like love a second track that like continues to pull you in and like doesn't propel you.
LeviHOST
I'm talking about, I literally was thinking Maroon and Cruel Summer.
LeviHOST
That's what I was thinking about.
LeviHOST
Cruel Summer doesn't follow Miss Iconic Opener.
LeviHOST
I mean, I forgot you existed.
LeviHOST
She's cute.
CarlyHOST
And when they're so passionate about something, she's like, I'll give it to them.
CarlyHOST
And then she kind of talked about how All Too Well is an example of that, but also Cruel Summer.
CarlyHOST
And
JessHOST
how
James LampkinHOST
Question 9.
James LampkinHOST
Rather than the smash hit Cruel Summer or the slow dance staple Lover, Taylor Swift chose this song, a collaboration with Brendon Urie, as the lead single of her 2019 album Lover.
James LampkinHOST
Question 10.
James LampkinHOST
Rather than Man I Feel Like a Woman, That Don't Impress Me Much or You're Still the One, this song was chosen as the lead single from Shania Twain's blockbuster Come On Over and originally had the title Goldarn Gone and Done It.
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