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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2019 0:16:41 GMT
Taylor Swift has fans putting on their detective hats once again. A new Amazon Music ad featuring her single "You Need to Calm Down" focuses on a set of singing lips with a backdrop of plenty of Lover era flowers and butterflies -- but one of those things is not quite like the other. http://instagram.com/p/B1WlJxkjOpi In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in the ad posted on social media Monday (Aug. 19), one butterfly's wings spell out "Cruel Summer," which is a track on Swift's new album, set for release this week. http://instagram.com/p/B1ZYmlmD5Pt No details have been confirmed about "Cruel Summer," other than it being the second song on Lover's track list, but its appearance in this clip has left many speculating that it could be an upcoming single. http://instagram.com/p/B1T6yOQj2QM The "Cruel Summer" butterfly is black and white in a video that is full of color, leading to further suspicions: will the song reference the theme or time period of Swift's Reputation? (In short, as one fan on Twitter pointed out: "Why does the Cruel Summer butterfly look like it's still living in the rep era?") "Cruel Summer" was also an Easter egg in Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" music video. Around the 2:00 mark, co-star Ellen DeGeneres is seen getting tattooed with the phrase.
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Post by Admin on Aug 22, 2019 20:30:21 GMT
Apple Music and iTunes have revealed many of the contributors to Taylor Swift’s new album Lover, as fan account @tswiftnz notes. Among the notable collaborators is Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), who worked on the song “Cruel Summer” with Swift and Jack Antonoff. “Cruel Summer” is also one of eight Lover songs to which Antonoff contributed. Check out the list of primary songwriters below. Lover is out at midnight via Republic. The album’s led by “ME!,” “You Need to Calm Down,” “The Archer,” and “Lover.” St. Vincent recently produced Sleater-Kinney’s new album The Center Won’t Hold. She released MASSEDUCTION in 2017, and then followed it last year with the reworked MassEducation.
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Post by Admin on Aug 22, 2019 22:06:22 GMT
If this tracklist is legit, then Clark co-wrote “Cruel Summer,” the second track on Lover, with Swift and Jack Antonoff. (Apparently, it’s not a Bananarama cover.) This shouldn’t be a huge shock. Swift has welcomed St. Vincent to the stage before. In 2015, when Swift was on her 1989 tour and bringing out surprise guests every night, St. Vincent and Beck joined Swift for a performance of Beck’s single “Dreams,” and Clark shredded all over it. And of course, Swift’s regular collaborator Antonoff produced St. Vincent’s 2017 album MASSEDUCTION. Still: Pretty cool! Most of the Lover songwriting credits are about what you’d expect. Swift co-wrote every song on the album, and she has sole writing credit on two of them. Antonoff is credited on eight of the 18 songs. Pop insiders Louis Bell, Frank Dukes, Joel Little, and Mark Anthony Spears. (Spears is better known as Sounwave, the TDE producer who is also Antonoff’s bandmate in the new Red Hearse project.)
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Post by Admin on Aug 24, 2019 5:44:57 GMT
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn didn’t start dating until the fall of 2016, but she reveals in her new song, “Cruel Summer,” that she was falling for him the entire summer before that — which is when she was in a highly-publicized romance with Tom Hiddleston! On Taylor’s last album, she revealed that she first met Joe at the 2016 Met Gala, while she was still with Calvin Harris. Now, on Lover, she’s sharing that she never stopped thinking about him in the months after, before they officially got together. The most obvious reference to these feelings come in the bridge, when Taylor sings, “I’m drunk in the back of a car, and I cried like a baby coming home from the bar, said I’m fine but it wasn’t true, I don’t want to keep secrets just to keep you, snuck in through the garden gate every night that summer just to seal my fate.” Taylor hints that she was only able to be with Joe because she was keeping whatever relationship they had a “secret” during that summer together. She also insinuates that she may have been ‘sneaking out’ from her time with Tom to be with Joe, which is what ‘sealed her fate’ with the British actor. After that line, she sings, “I scream for whatever it’s worth, ‘I love you’ ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard.” If Taylor was saying ‘I Love You’ to Tom after she snuck back in, this would be the ‘worst thing’ Joe ‘ever heard….’ because he wanted to be with her. Ah! Taylor also references her feelings for Joe during summer 2016 on the song “Paper Rings.” She sings, “I hate accidents, except when we went from friends to this,” in the chorus. It seems the two stayed friends after the Met Gala, but it eventually turned into something more. In the first verse of “Paper Rings,” Taylor also says, “The wine is cold like the shoulder I gave you in the street, cat and mouse for a month, or two, or three.” This appears to reference a time she ran into Joe while she was with Tom, but had to ignore him. The ‘cat and mouse’ lyric makes it seem like she and Joe were chasing each other for the summer, until she finally gave Tom up for him.
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Post by Admin on Sept 16, 2019 4:08:19 GMT
Just like all her other songs, Taylor Swift’s one of “Lover” track ‘Cruel Summer’ had made it to the headlines and managed to create a buzz. The reason for this song to grab the eyeballs are more than one. Apart from it being a great piece of musical work, the revelations that Swift made through her latest release are astonishing. Cruel Summer’s lyrics have given a hint to many, that it was just months before writing and recording this song that she had started to fall for Joe Alwyn. But it is also well-known to her fans that at this time she was already in a relationship with Tom Hiddleston. Frankly, the lyrics of the song seem to validate this public perception. Some lines convey the secrecy which was maintained for a relationship that the singer was in. It is now evident that the lyrics were based on the real-life relationship status of Taylor Swift. But this portrayal of her feelings for Joe through songs is not new. Some say that her song ‘Paper Rings’ which talked about a lovely ‘accident’ that makes people go from being friends to lovers was also made for Joe, around the time when rumors of them being together were starting to gain the hype. Tom Hiddleston was also asked about these rumors back then and ever since. His reply was that he could not control what others do or think. After breaking up with Tay Tay, Tom had maintained that Swift was an amazing woman and he spent quality time of his life with her. He refrains from speaking much about the issue, but now that Swift has made serious revelations, we may get to hear something from his side. Swift, on the other hand, also teased her engagement in the song’s official video.
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