Taylor Swift, Give Us the ‘Cruel Summer’ Music Video, You Coward
"Cruel Summer" is inching its way up the charts again... Please, Taylor!!
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Travel back with me, for a brief moment, to February 27, 2020: Maria Sharapova has announced her retirement from tennis; Donald Trump had just put Mike Pence in charge of the nascent pandemic response; it’s 40 degrees in New York City; the moon’s in Aries; Mercury’s in retrograde; and Taylor Swift releases the music video for “The Man,” her latest single off Lover.
And it’s filled with Easter eggs—as is everything Swift does—but there’s one giant, glowing, promising, Easter egg that really out-easter-eggs them all. There’s a quick cameo from Loren Gray, the TikTok star whose fans refer to themselves as (this is important) “angels.” And at two minutes and 43 seconds, Gray ROLLS HER DAMN EYES. In the Swiftverse, this all but confirms that “Cruel Summer” will be the next single: “Angels roll their eyes” is one of the lyrics. (I know this probably all sounds insane if you’re not a Swiftie but trust me, it’s not.) Life is good, the future is bright, and you’re raring to cartwheel into summer 2020 screaming “I love you, ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard???” until your lungs explode.