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Cruel Summer
Taylor Swift
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- Album
- Lover
- Released
- 2019
- Genres
- Pop
- Length
- 2:58
- Tempo
- 170 BPM
- Label
- Taylor Swift
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About this song
The song is linked to the summer of 2016, when Taylor Swift was beginning her relationship with Joe Alwyn. Swift's release of Lover came with a personal journal in which she described that summer as painful. The song's theme is similar to the November 2017 track "Delicate."
What it's about
The song narrates the fragility and uncertainty at the start of a relationship, in which the narrator secretly falls in love with a partner she describes as a bad boy during what was meant to be a physical fling.}
Summary written with AI, based on the song's page on Genius.
Fun facts
- Sampled in 2 other songs, like “Cruel Number by David0Mario”.
- Covered 18 times, including “Cruel Summer (Acoustic) by Saph's Story”.
- Written by St. Vincent, Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift.
- Produced by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff.
- Recorded at USA.