Taylor Swift‘s “Cruel Summer” just secured its second week atop the Billboard Hot 100, a feat that’s impressive also without the understanding that the tune mores than 4 years of ages. And after that there’s the truth that the track, as its title recommends, was initially slated to be a track of the summer season challenger in 2020 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic modified its program — just for it to strike No. 1 days prior to November 2023.
“I’m loving where the music business has gone,” Jack Antonoff, that generated “Cruel Summer” and much of Swift’s 2019 cd Lover, informed Jimmy Fallon throughout his Tonight Show look Wednesday (Nov. 1). “Because it’s melted down into nothing but what people like. You can talk your crap about this or that, but the fans are God. What they say goes.”
“The idea of a single is just, what’s the song that if you could get your friends in the room, you’d play?” the Grammy-winning manufacturer proceeded. “And what happened with ‘Cruel Summer’ is a testament to that. It was always our favorite song on the album. Then with nothing, no gas in the fire, with no one on the business side doing anything, just kids started playing it more and more.”
Antonoff’s beliefs resemble the video message he and Swift uploaded quickly after information damaged late October that “Cruel Summer” had actually gone No. 1. Excitedly discussing each other, the Bleachers frontman claimed that the Lover track had actually constantly been “the song that we said was the best song, but we thought, ‘Oh, you know what? This will be our secret best song.’”
“We just wanted to say thank you so much for making ‘Cruel Summer’ a Hot 100 No. 1, and it’s not even summer anymore,” Swift included the video clip. “It’s deep fall, I’m wearing a sweater.”
Antonoff additionally just recently talked with Billboard concerning the “Cruel Summer” sensation, calling its postponed graph accomplishment “a huge thumbs-up from the universe.” “I take it all as a reminder to do what you believe in, make the songs you believe in,” he included. “You never want to do anything that you don’t believe in for the sake of success … With [‘Cruel Summer’], I loved that it existed, and didn’t need anything more from it. It’s just this bizarre icing on the cake.”
Watch Jack Antonoff open concerning the belated success of “Cruel Summer” over, and the Bleachers’ Tonight Show efficiency listed below.
