Taylor Swift at the Taylor Swift “The Eras Tour” held at Allegiant Stadium on March 24, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Christopher Polk for PMC
Taylor Swift took a min prior to vocal singing “Champagne Problems” to take points back a couple of periods Saturday evening (June 17) at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium.
“The weirdest, most magical thing is happening,” Swift stated from the Eras Tour phase. “It’s never happened to me in the whole time I’ve ever been doing this.”
“‘Cruel Summer’ is a song, I just played it a second ago. I don’t know if you remember. We had a blast, yeah? The one with the bridge where we all screamed,” she advised followers, describing the opening Lover area of her online collection.
“‘Cruel Summer’ was on the Lover album. That album came out four years ago. And I just need to let you know something: ‘Cruel Summer,’ that song was my pride and joy on that album,” she stated of the track included on her 2019 cd, a tune that likewise occurs to be a long time fan-favorite.
Swift discussed, “You have conversations before the album comes out. Everybody around weighs in on what they think should be singles. I was finally, finally about to have my favorite song become the single — off of Lover.”
But prior to summer season 2020, which would certainly have been a rational time to go down a cleansing summer season anthem, came COVID-19. “I’m not trying to blame the global pandemic that we had,” Swift stated, “but that is something that happened that stopped ‘Cruel Summer’ from ever being a single.”
She proceeded, “No one understands how this is happening, but you guys have streamed ‘Cruel Summer’ so much right now in 2023” that Republic Records, her tag, “just decided to make it the next single.”
Billboard validated the information on Friday that Republic will formally begin advertising “Cruel Summer” to pop radio terminals since Tuesday, June 20, while remaining to advertise Midnights solitary “Karma.”
“Cruel Summer” went back to the Billboard Hot 100 dated June 3, after it invested 2 weeks on the graph in September 2019. On the June 17 Hot 100, it places at No. 47, with 9.6 million main streams, 2.6 million radio airplay target market perceptions and also 1,500 downloads marketed in the United States June 2-8, according to Luminate.
“Thank you to anyone who’s been listening to that song like 500 times a day,” Swift joked in Pittsburgh.
Taylor speaking about just how Cruel Summer was her favored and also it’s lastly coming to be a solitary!!! 🥹#TSTheErasTour #PittsburghTSTheErasTour #CruelSummer@taylornation13 pic.twitter.com/ceK4Zxc6D1
— Holly Caitlin (@holly_caitlin) June 18, 2023
Taylor speaking about Cruel Summer #PittsburghTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/vMHsS5cGSz
— Bethany (@SwiftBethany13) June 18, 2023
