Cruel summer, there I saved you a minute of useless rambling.

The way we all agree that cruel summer should've been the lead single for Lover era. Edit: Thank you everyone, we did it with Anti-Hero. Now I'm so happy cruel summer has its own moment rn.

4 years later, Cruel Summer got #1!

Swifties streamed cruel summer so much it became a single 💀💀💀 (Edit: omg 2.8k likes!? Tysm!) (Edit: OML HOW DID this get 3.2k!?!? TYSM!)

Was anyone expecting Dont Blame Me, it’s literally her number one song rn on Spotify

4 years later and Cruel Summer is now #3 on Spotify…you were so ahead on this one!! 🎉

she actually just did release it as a single in 2023. finally it got the recognition it deserved. and is now #1 hit

It was re-released during the Eras Tour and went to #3 and now it IS a single

I KNEW it would be Cruel Summer!!!! Cruel Summer and Getaway Car are criminally underrated

Enchanted is a literal masterpiece and should’ve been a hit

Now Cruel Summer is among the top ten longest-charting songs on the Billboard hot 100

This video could’ve been summed up in literally 10 seconds

It’s been 3 years and I’m still not over the fact that ME! was the lead single when Cruel Summer was RIGHT THERE

She already said that she wanted to make it a single but, Covid happened. She also said this one was her favorite for that album & she’s so proud of it.

Im so happy that cruel summer its now her biggest hit, it is one of my favorite songs from the lover album, it its perfect for being her most popular song

Real swifties know cruel summer was absolutely set to be a single until covid happened

It didn't flop, everyone loves it. It just wasn't made a single.

after 4 years, cruel summer got no. 1 on the HOT 100 that too for 2 weeks!!

You were about one year too soon. It finally made it. She said that she didn’t release it due to the pandemic but we kept playing it and pushed it to be a breakout. She’s so good that her fans are beyond happy for her and way beyond loyal. ❤❤❤

Not only is Cruel Summer the most single-like non-single, it's almost like the beginning of her and Joe's story and fits well at the start of the era.

don't blame me, i did something bad and cruel summer could've all been smash hits if they were made singles.

Now cruel summer is her most listened song

have you predicted the future? :)

Tell me how we all KNEW it was gonna be cruel summer

It really should have been Cruel Summer or Don’t blame me.

and now it's currently battling for #1 spot in the hot 100 4 years later. oh cruel summer that hit that you are

Laughs in October 2023

Bro testing everyone's patience 💀

Taylor finally made Cruel Summer a single! She also said that Cruel Summer was going to be a single but then COVID happened which delayed it.

AND NOW IT HIT #1

I like what he says” I love this song, but do we really think it should be the biggest hit?” 😂😂😂 Cruel summer deserves it

I feel like “I did something bad” & “I Know Places” were both missed opportunities

I thought you were gonna talk about Getawar Car, that one and Cruel Summer are definitely the missed oportunities she had

It's No. 1 now Cruel Summer

this aged well

new romantics and cruel summer should be the leaders for lover

'I Did Something Bad' and 'Cruel Summer' for me. Honourable mentions are 'Don't Blame Me'

its a hit single now in 2023!

She made it a single and made it to the top 🤝

If Covid didn’t happen then Cruel Summer would have been a single. There’s no way Taylor could have released a song singing about a Cruel Summer when thousands of people were dying.

Cruel Summer is undoubtedly a fan favorite from Lover, so I wouldn't say it kind of 'flopped' at all. I wish so badly that we could've seen a full Lover tour 💔

THE WAY YOU WERE AHEAD WITH THIS

I think that New Romantics would’ve been a hit song if she released it as a single

OMG Cruel Summer is my favourite song!!! Should've been a single. The world deserved to hear it!

THERE ARE NO FLOPS IN THE NAME OF TAYLOR SWIZZLE

ITS 1 ON BILLBORD NOW YESS KEEP STREAMING SWIFTIES also for her birthday pls stream all the Taylor versions albums for a week around 13 th December to get them ALLL UP ❤️❤️🤍

we all knew it would be cs lol

You know what, I think about this a lot since way back when you uploaded it and I believed you. Now I come back here and yes, you were totally correct and it's now one of her biggest/best songs ever.

Am I the only one who thought it would be getaway car? Literally NO ONE who isn’t a Swiftie knows this song, but it’s SO GOOD!

It's a strategy she uses, a very smart one. If you release your best songs as singles you'll end up with an album with about 3 songs that most people really like. But if you choose to release the other songs you don't find that appealing what will happen is, people will come to like them anyway because of the repeated times they listened to them as well as they'll like the other great songs that were not singles, so people will have an album where they will most certainly love at least 6 or 7 songs. You may not buy an album if you like just a few songs in it, but 6 or 7 you most definitely will. People say she doesn't know how to pick her singles, she knows exactly what she's doing 😉

The fact that it was her #1 streamed song on Spotify for like ever is crazy like he Fr predicted that it was going to go crazy 😂

This aged liked milk out of the refrigerator.

Cruel Summer is definitely up there, but the song that does it for me is I Did Something Bad, like god I hope it gets good promo when Reputation TV comes out

I think songs from the Lover album that should’ve been hits should’ve been “Miss Americana”, “The Man”, “Paper Rings” and “Cruel Summer”.

it never left the top 100's chart in like YEARS

STOP WHY WAS THINKING ITS GONNA BE CRUEL SUMMER

It’s “Cruel Summer” for anyone who came to the comments bc they didn’t want to watch the whole video

For me, "DON'T BLAME ME" should have been the biggest hit 😌😌

It was originally meant to be the single for the album but the pandemic threw everything for a loop. There's an interview with Jack Antonoff about it, I *think* on the Jimmy Fallon show?

She originally wanted to release it as the single for the album but something happened and she didn’t

I know delicate was big for sometime, but it was a really good song! I thought it should have been up their. And yes, cruel summer is also amazing!

When you mentioned the bridge, I knew immediately which song.

NOT THIS GUYS SAYING THAT CRUEL SUMMER FLOPPEED EVEN THOUGH SHE SINGS IT AT EVER FRICKIN ERAS TOUR

Style, Delicate and Lover should have been bigger Cruel Summer, So It Goes and Exile should have been singles

I expected you to say Getaway Car! Cruel Summer is a big hit despite not being a single

I thought he was going to say Getaway Car for the background 😭

IT’S ALREADY NUMBER 1!!!!! ON BILLBOARD HOT 100

so glad that she’s releasing it as a single now 💪

I am obsessed with Reputation, to me it’s her best album

They streamed cruel summer so much that it became a.... BLUE SUMMER!!! kidding, a single💀

me watching this when she made cruel summer a single: 🤭😏💅

Cruel summer, Getaway car, August all should've been singles.

I've always been bummed "Clean" from 1989 wasn't a single. I'd love to see the imagery she would choose for that song. I can always imagine her in a house and it's raining and filling it up.

Cruel summer is doing so good now

fun fact: i guessed cruel summer before he revealed the song

ok but when has a taylor swift song ever "flopped"?

Getaway car is the correct answer tho

4 years later and this song has reached 1 on billboard and is on track to become her most streamed song

"Cruel Summer" is her most streamed Spotify song, ahead of "Shake It Off," "Blank Space," and "Anti-Hero." It'll most likely be her first song to reach 2,000,000,000 plays (it needs 102 mil more plays), and it will coincidentally hit that milestone just before summer...where it will then probably take off into the stratosphere for the season.

Honestly, I've had her song "I Bet You Think About Me" ft. Chris Stapleton stuck in my head for the past 24 hours straight lmao

Cruel summer deserved to have a banger music video, it deserved to go diamond platinum UGHHH WHY DIDNT SHR RELEASE IT AS A SINGLE

5 years later, cruel summer is now taylor swift's most streamed song

The woman is a GENUIS. Hits after hits ❤❤❤❤

It should've been "dont blame me" like that is epic! Is that even a question? Ughh! 🙄

Cruel Summer if promoted properly could have been a smash hit for sure, but it never would have been bigger than SIO

It became a single because of the eras tour and now it has over 1 billion streams and stayed on the charts for ~50 weeks

I LOVE THE STRANGER THINGS MUSIC IN THE BACKROUND

bro this is literally the fans' favorite and has over 300 millions streams on spotify, I wouldn't call it a flop but it truly deserves to be a single

Pov: it’s 2023 and this song is one of the worlds biggest hits

What we have to remember is WHEN Lover came out. She released it and “Me”..... giving us all Easter Eggs and seeing non-scary Taylor back from the grave... so to speak. Then she released “You Need To Calm Down” And then “Lover”.... now the WHEN happened... COVID Pandemic hits. If you all go back, she was planning festival type concerts for that album. Then everything shut down. We do not know if she would have released it next.

And now the song is close to 1 billion streams on Spotify and is currently top 5 on billboard hot 100, challenging for #1 🤭🤭

Cruel Summer and Getaway Car should've happened.

for people who don't have patience like me, the song is Cruel Summer

And now Cruel Summer is indeed her biggest week and has been #1 4 YEARS after its release!!

Watching this now after cruel summer being her most streamed song ever 👁👄👁

OMG so true! Cruel Summer was such a missed opportunity.

AND DON’T BLAME ME. don’t get me STARTED on that one being underrated- should’ve been a single.

Cruel Summer was 2023's #1 song!

cruel summer is finally getting its moment in the spotlight

JUSTICE FOR CRUEL SUMMER