Jack Antonoff Says 'Cruel Summer' Is His & Taylor Swift's Favorite Song From 'Lover'

Four years after it was released, Taylor Swift finally released the song "Cruel Summer" as an album single from the album, "Lover."

It has since reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for two consecutive weeks. Now, Jack Antonoff, the Grammy-winning co-writer and producer of the album "Lover" and the song "Cruel Summer," reveals that it was in fact his favorite song from the Grammy-nominated record.

'Cruel Summer' Is Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff's Favorite Song

In a candid interview on "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon, Jack Antonoff revealed that "Cruel Summer" is, in fact, his and Taylor Swift's favorite song from the album, "Lover." (via People Magazine)

In the past few months, the song has received significant acclaim and fanfare, especially on TikTok. When Taylor Swift started her "The Eras" Tour, the song unofficially became one of the most anticipated tracks of the night - with a huge TikTok trend coming about - showing Swifties scream the song's bridge at the top of their lungs while in concert.

Slowly, the song has received huge streaming activity and downloads. Eventually, Taylor Swift, in an unprecedented move, released the song as a single and promoted it on the radio.

Jack Antonoff talked about the interesting phenomena on the show.

"I'm loving where the music business is going because it just melted down into nothing but what people like. And you can talk your crap about this or that, but the fans are God. What they say goes and all this," the Bleachers vocalist shared,.

Antonoff then described that "Cruel Summer" was a song that one would definitely blast in a room with friends and sing non-stop.

"It was always our favorite song on the album," Antonoff revealed. "And then with nothing, with no gas in the fire, with no one on the business side doing anything, just kids started playing it more and more and more."

Taylor Swift 'Cruel Summer'

When the song finally reached No. 1 on the Billboard 100 chart, Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff celebrated the milestone with a video on Instagram.

"Our favorite song from Lover from five years ago. The song that we said was the best song but we thought, 'Oh, you know what? This is going to be our secret best song.' That's what we thought," they said on the video. "We just wanted to say thank you so much for making 'Cruel Summer' a Hot 100 No. 1. And it's not even the summer anymore, it's deep fall. I'm wearing a sweater."

Check out the video below.

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Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift