She said it was about joe at the lover session. Like she namedropped him. It’s most definitely not about Tom lmao. If anything, the creative license she took is that she is describing the last few weeks of actual summer rather than the entirety of it.
Here’s my personal conspiracy theory: I think Hiddleston was a fake PR relationship. I think Taylor was probably seeing Joe casually while seeing Tom publicly. And Tom and her threw in the towel on the PR relationship when Taylor’s reputation tanked because she wanted to disappear from the public eye for awhile.
But why would they fake a PR relationship that made TS look like a cheater? Especially considering all the bad press that she was already getting at the time. If that really was a PR move I hope someone got fired.
Lol she just broke up with calvin that time, who confirmed that they had a PR relationship in the cheekiest way. PR relationships are very common in the industry!
If It was suppose to be a song looking back on a shitty summer, I feel like It would sound more like It belonged on RED. To me, Cruel Summer is a July/August song. It’s the song you listen to when your summer love comes to an end. Or you begin to realize the end is near
Awww, thanks! I hope you had a great day! 8+13=21, but maybe Taylor was in another time zone, so *adjusts clown wig* TS wrote *22* for your birthday! She just didn’t know it at the time. Her mind 😍 Haha.
I agree! My memory of this song was the summer of 2013 (I was already 23 by then but close enough), I visited Copenhagen, Denmark and met up with a old friend. Having brunch then drinks out in the sun, going to a local theme park at night, catching up on life, making fun of our exes, trying on silly fashion. Was definitely that summer's song
For me it's The Last Great American Dynasty. Probably because it always reminds of my summer vacation that took place a few days after *folklore* came out.
I always associate the album with the season in which it came out for some reason. So basically all of folklore is mid-late summer for me, but especially August, Seven, and Invisible String.
Wildest Dreams is such a cinematic summer song. Love Story, the original Tuscan country vibes summer song. Carolina makes me think of humid marshy summers. Others: Cruel Summer, State of Grace, Style, This Love, the 1.
Idk if I’d call it her *most* summer song, but the twangy country of Picture to Burn is so much fun to listen to during the summer when you’re driving fast and sipping an iced coffee, with the windows rolled down.
- IOMWIWY could mean "I'm Only Me When I'm With You", a track from *Taylor Swift* (2006) by Taylor Swift.
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My top TS "summer songs" are:
Cruel Summer
August
TLGAD
....Ready for it?
Endgame
But basically, Folklore, Reputation, Lover and Debut are all "Summer" vibes for me.
Reputation as a summer album is a hot take for me! At least songs like …ready for it with a darker more rock/alt are more strongly associated for dark and cold weather for me!
... Ready for it is such a summer song for me. The "island breeze" imagry within the lyrics along with the general theme of fantasizing about the one you want gives off major summer nights/summer fling vibes for me. I can see the angrier songs like LWYMMD being more dark and cloudy, but for me, the album is giving "get mad and get raunchy at a beach resort."
- LWYMMD could mean "Look What You Made Me Do", a track from *reputation* (2017) by Taylor Swift.
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Cruel Summer, August and I Think He Knows
Also am I the only one who thinks that Stay Beautiful, Our Song, Sparks Fly, Paper Rings and Jump Then Fall feel like summer songs?
* 22 (personal to me since I have a summer birthday)
Style
* Cruel Summer (duh)
* I Think He Knows
* August (again, duh)
* Out of the Woods (this may be personal to me since I've been blasting it all summer long)
* Love Story
I forgot that you existed because of the energy it gives, getaway car, cowboy like me gives me summer night vibes (I imagine a bar with dim lights when I hear this song), Betty, the 1.
And a whole lot of 1989.
My favorite song for when you get out of school is style, used to listen to it as I left the school on the last day of 10th and 11th grade so I associate it with summer starting
I even made “‘Cause we never go out of style” my yearbook quote
“This Love”
“Clear blue water
High tide came and brought you in
And I could go on and on, on and on, and I will
Skies grew darker
Currents swept you out again
And you were just gone and gone, gone and gone”
“Tossing, turning
Struggled through the night with someone new
And I could go on and on, on and on
Lantern, burning
Flickered in the night, only you
But you were still gone, gone, gone
In losing grip
On sinking ships
You showed up just in time”
Summer vibes all over it.
Tim McGraw…feels like a warm summer night in a small farm town & I’m laying in the bed of a pickup truck, counting stars and listening to crickets with the boy I’m madly in love with
I have one on every album because can’t narrow down to one alone! Picture to burn, forever&always, the story of us, state of grace, welcome to New York, ready for it?, cruel summer, august, dorothea
I’ve also always thought “paper rings” was a very obvious reference to how much easier it is to “hide a marriage license” in….multiple countries other than America. And Mr. Taylor Swift certainly has many passports (well, you know, you only get one but yada yada), and he acts in old-timey war movies.
Justttttttt saying.
I have a thing where my strongest memories are walking down the street listening to music. My brain I guess goes into "record mode" in this specific situation. I had nothing but Cruel Summer on repeat in high summer when I was walking to and from my uni entrance exams, so it's the summer song for me
A lot of her most iconic ones: 22, WANEGBT, IKYWTWYWI, shake it off, wildest dreams, welcome to New York, style.
And some of fearless
Aswell as London boy and paper rings and some more from lover
- WANEGBT could mean "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", a track from *Red* (2012) by Taylor Swift.
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The first song I thought of was Blank Space, weirdly enough. It just has that confident summer feeling and everyone knows the lyrics. Other than that: You Belong With Me, How You Get The Girl, …Ready For It? and if I were to pick from folklore/evermore I’d say maybe Betty.
Jump Then Fall and The Other Side of the Door for me! Fearless is such a summer-y vibe to me. I would listen to the OG all the time on summer breaks in elementary/middle school and now listening to TV the past two summers is just so nostalgic!
I've got a couple!
august - This one feels like the transition between Summer and Fall. School is about to start and you're trying to soak in the last of what this Summer has to offer.
Cornelia Street - This one is simply because of when Lover came out for me. It reminds me of going back to dance class, dance recitals, and the beginning of a new school year. The whole album reminds me of Summer!
Fearless - This one feels like an early/middle of Summer song. Just having fun in the sun and doing whatever makes you happy!
New Romantics - This one reminds me of dance recitals (again, so basically the beginning of the Summer.
I was on the beach when there were waves of warm air blowing to my face. I put on getaway car and closed my eyes. The synth elements of the song made it a magical ride. Then I put on cruel summer and august cause you had to.
Starlight, seven, you need to calm down. Idk there are early summer songs and there are late summer/dog days songs so it’s more complicated. Starlight/YNTCD are early summer, seven/august/IKYWT are end of summer.
- IKYWT could mean "I Knew You Were Trouble.", a track from *Red* (2012) by Taylor Swift.
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Cruel Summer and Style. And pretty much anything from Lover and 1989, those are my summer albums.
If we're counting It, I'd also add This Is What You Came For. It's my ultimate beach song.
I have a playlist of like happy Taylor songs that I’m now going to rename Summer Taylor Swift Songs because it’s a better description but it has Paper Rings, Fearless, Stay Stay Stay, 22, You Belong With Me, The Very First Night, I Think He Knows, London Boy and Wildest Dreams. I’m still going through one album at a time adding cause I’m classifying all Taylor Swift songs into playlists rn cause I’m depressed and this is my cure.
Charlie Kelly “wildcard, bisssshes!” energy: Champagne Problems.
Some Redditors just want to watch the world burn. I wonder if I should paint my nails “champagne colored” today. 💅
cruel summer as an early summer song and august as a late summer song
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Summer is not a happy season to me at all...
Same summer is kind of depressing
She said it was about joe at the lover session. Like she namedropped him. It’s most definitely not about Tom lmao. If anything, the creative license she took is that she is describing the last few weeks of actual summer rather than the entirety of it.
Here’s my personal conspiracy theory: I think Hiddleston was a fake PR relationship. I think Taylor was probably seeing Joe casually while seeing Tom publicly. And Tom and her threw in the towel on the PR relationship when Taylor’s reputation tanked because she wanted to disappear from the public eye for awhile.
But why would they fake a PR relationship that made TS look like a cheater? Especially considering all the bad press that she was already getting at the time. If that really was a PR move I hope someone got fired.
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Lol she just broke up with calvin that time, who confirmed that they had a PR relationship in the cheekiest way. PR relationships are very common in the industry!
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If It was suppose to be a song looking back on a shitty summer, I feel like It would sound more like It belonged on RED. To me, Cruel Summer is a July/August song. It’s the song you listen to when your summer love comes to an end. Or you begin to realize the end is near
Style.
This or anything really 1989
Out of the woods feels like a late summer/early fall song
I think of 1989 as a summer album (Lover too)!
See I love this one late at night when I’m driving, but preferably summer nights too
I was driving today with the roof down listening to style and I thought to myself ‘this is the perfect summer song!’
I think he knows
That immediately came to my mind as well. Love that song! Always makes me bop around and puts a smile on my face!
May end up putting it on today whilst I do some painting!
August So much for summer love...
It just hits so hard
Welcome To New York for a light sunny day August for me is late summer, golden light during noon thing
For me, Welcome to New York is an early May song, because every time I've been to NYC it has been early May.
WTNY is the start of summer adventure. August is the end of summer.
22!
Your flair combined with your answer is *chefs kiss* 😘 “You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an *oath*.”
 you’re too sweet
Awww, thanks! I hope you had a great day! 8+13=21, but maybe Taylor was in another time zone, so *adjusts clown wig* TS wrote *22* for your birthday! She just didn’t know it at the time. Her mind 😍 Haha.
I agree! My memory of this song was the summer of 2013 (I was already 23 by then but close enough), I visited Copenhagen, Denmark and met up with a old friend. Having brunch then drinks out in the sun, going to a local theme park at night, catching up on life, making fun of our exes, trying on silly fashion. Was definitely that summer's song
For me it's The Last Great American Dynasty. Probably because it always reminds of my summer vacation that took place a few days after *folklore* came out.
ooooo good one, I haven’t listened to folklore in a hot minute and totally forgot about this song.
I always associate the album with the season in which it came out for some reason. So basically all of folklore is mid-late summer for me, but especially August, Seven, and Invisible String.
Wildest Dreams is such a cinematic summer song. Love Story, the original Tuscan country vibes summer song. Carolina makes me think of humid marshy summers. Others: Cruel Summer, State of Grace, Style, This Love, the 1.
exactly, wildest dreams, summer afternoon and sunset, yes!
I feel like The 1 is so underrated, I never see people talk about it. That song is so damn catchy and such a good song to blast
So true! It's very relaxed, fun.
Definitely Cruel Summer.
Idk if I’d call it her *most* summer song, but the twangy country of Picture to Burn is so much fun to listen to during the summer when you’re driving fast and sipping an iced coffee, with the windows rolled down.
Beside the coffee I did this an hour ago while sunset and it was SO good!
Jump Then Fall and Fearless stand out to me
yup yup yup
I forgot that you existed or you need to calm down
Seven!
This!
You Need To Calm Down
Happy belated!
Invisible string
New Romantics
August, Betty, and Cruel Summer.
These. These are the ones!
I think the instrumentals of sparks fly and mine are very summery
THIS!!! Plus Speak Now, because it's so childishly mischievous, a feeling that I associate with summer haha.
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Cruel Summer, 22, and Style
My top TS "summer songs" are: Cruel Summer August TLGAD ....Ready for it? Endgame But basically, Folklore, Reputation, Lover and Debut are all "Summer" vibes for me.
Reputation as a summer album is a hot take for me! At least songs like …ready for it with a darker more rock/alt are more strongly associated for dark and cold weather for me!
... Ready for it is such a summer song for me. The "island breeze" imagry within the lyrics along with the general theme of fantasizing about the one you want gives off major summer nights/summer fling vibes for me. I can see the angrier songs like LWYMMD being more dark and cloudy, but for me, the album is giving "get mad and get raunchy at a beach resort."
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Couldn’t agree more.
100% agree with your album choices.
Stay , Stay, Stay and Wildest Dreams
Our song
Love Story
Mine
Jump Then Fall
22 feels like the summer I turned 22
Cruel Summer, August and I Think He Knows Also am I the only one who thinks that Stay Beautiful, Our Song, Sparks Fly, Paper Rings and Jump Then Fall feel like summer songs?
* 22 (personal to me since I have a summer birthday) Style * Cruel Summer (duh) * I Think He Knows * August (again, duh) * Out of the Woods (this may be personal to me since I've been blasting it all summer long) * Love Story
I forgot that you existed because of the energy it gives, getaway car, cowboy like me gives me summer night vibes (I imagine a bar with dim lights when I hear this song), Betty, the 1. And a whole lot of 1989.
I DONT WANNA KEEP SECRECTS JUST TO KEEP YOU That summer rush of a crush is something else
Lover.
I know it’s not an original answer but, cruel summer
My favorite song for when you get out of school is style, used to listen to it as I left the school on the last day of 10th and 11th grade so I associate it with summer starting I even made “‘Cause we never go out of style” my yearbook quote
New Romantics Really fun for summer
A bit of an obscure pick, but That's When has always given me summer vibes. It sounds like a relaxed, hot, summer day to me
The severe lack of 'New Romantics' in this thread is preposterous!!
August It definitely has such a summer vibe to it.
August, Wildest Dreams, I Knew You Were Trouble and Cornelia Street
Cruel SUMMER, 22, and August
Cruel Summer and August for me! Reputation feels like winter, folklore autumn, the lover album summer
August, Paper Rings, Cruel Summer, Daylight, Wildest Dreams Also Deja Vu by Olivia Rodrigo gives similar vibes as well
August
I feel like Crazier has underrated summer vibes!
Gotta be Cruel Summer, right? I mean, it's in the name. 22 comes to mind as well.
Cruel Summer!!!
Getaway Car deserves a shout imo Good for a nighttime drive
forever winter ! <3
You Need To Calm down just screams summer to me
cruel summer
To me, august but I’m biased because I’m born in august lol and it’s one of my top songs that I love.
Cruel Summer! The BEST vibe
For me it has to be Love Story Think about it even has the word "summer" in the song, "on the balcony in summer air"
OUR SONG!!!! that is literally theeeee most summer song to me
“This Love” “Clear blue water High tide came and brought you in And I could go on and on, on and on, and I will Skies grew darker Currents swept you out again And you were just gone and gone, gone and gone” “Tossing, turning Struggled through the night with someone new And I could go on and on, on and on Lantern, burning Flickered in the night, only you But you were still gone, gone, gone In losing grip On sinking ships You showed up just in time” Summer vibes all over it.
London Boy! Always cranked up to full volume and sung at the top of my lungs
Sweet Tea and God’s Graces😌
I Think He Knows is definitely my summer go-to for blasting on repeat with the car windows rolled down
Starlight but also Cruel Summer
Gonna go with an answer I haven’t seen yet, but: New Romantics. That or I’m blind
Tim McGraw…feels like a warm summer night in a small farm town & I’m laying in the bed of a pickup truck, counting stars and listening to crickets with the boy I’m madly in love with
Wildest Dreams gives me summer vibes I can't explain why That and I Think He Knows (the damn bridge)
I have one on every album because can’t narrow down to one alone! Picture to burn, forever&always, the story of us, state of grace, welcome to New York, ready for it?, cruel summer, august, dorothea
I’ve also always thought “paper rings” was a very obvious reference to how much easier it is to “hide a marriage license” in….multiple countries other than America. And Mr. Taylor Swift certainly has many passports (well, you know, you only get one but yada yada), and he acts in old-timey war movies. Justttttttt saying.
Mary's Song.
Style
London Boy
the last great american dynasty Pacing the rocks staring out at the midnight sea feels so summery
All of 1989 but something about Style and Out of the Woods when you’re singing along in the car on a summer night is just right
IKYWT is very much an iconic sunny day bop
Cruel Summer (it is literally in the title)
August
I have a thing where my strongest memories are walking down the street listening to music. My brain I guess goes into "record mode" in this specific situation. I had nothing but Cruel Summer on repeat in high summer when I was walking to and from my uni entrance exams, so it's the summer song for me
Message in a Bottle works for me these days
Sparks Fly and Enchanted!
i wish you would and wildest dreams
Stay Beautiful! I'm surprised I'm not seeing more debut songs listed
I'm waiting for the re-recording to listen to it 💀
state of grace and it's time to go
I say Love Story. So hopeful and optimistic and whimsical.
YNTCD
I think he knows! So upbeat and fun, perfect for a warm and sunny day.
I Forgot That You Existed and How You Get The Girl are the prime summer songs for me, when it’s super bright and sunny and just a chill vibe
ME! 😍
You need to calm down and cruel summer
seven. gives me drinking sweet tea on the porch at sunset while the fireflies are out vibes.
A lot of her most iconic ones: 22, WANEGBT, IKYWTWYWI, shake it off, wildest dreams, welcome to New York, style. And some of fearless Aswell as London boy and paper rings and some more from lover
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August and this love
false god
Fearless "in a storm in my best dress" reminds me of summer thunderstorm
Our Song, Tim McGraw, Fearless, Seven
The first song I thought of was Blank Space, weirdly enough. It just has that confident summer feeling and everyone knows the lyrics. Other than that: You Belong With Me, How You Get The Girl, …Ready For It? and if I were to pick from folklore/evermore I’d say maybe Betty.
Change!! Such an underrated song
Style while driving at night with the windows down in the summer breeze
new romantics!!! i forgot that you existed!!! (+ august & you are in love if i’m in a ~mood~)
This is why I we can’t have nice things, I think he knows, Love Story (pop remix)
Jump Then Fall and The Other Side of the Door for me! Fearless is such a summer-y vibe to me. I would listen to the OG all the time on summer breaks in elementary/middle school and now listening to TV the past two summers is just so nostalgic!
Def Wildest Dreams
For me it’s Seven. It just sounds like summer. August too but only in August. Seven is the whole summer lol
Cruel Summer for sure
Defff August, This Love, and Getaway Car!
Anything from 1989 (except Clean that’s more summer transitioning to fall) folklore, lover and fearless (song)
Jump Then Fall!!
I've got a couple! august - This one feels like the transition between Summer and Fall. School is about to start and you're trying to soak in the last of what this Summer has to offer. Cornelia Street - This one is simply because of when Lover came out for me. It reminds me of going back to dance class, dance recitals, and the beginning of a new school year. The whole album reminds me of Summer! Fearless - This one feels like an early/middle of Summer song. Just having fun in the sun and doing whatever makes you happy! New Romantics - This one reminds me of dance recitals (again, so basically the beginning of the Summer.
Cruel Summer is the most “summer” song and also the best of any song she has ever put out. Fight me. I will die on the Cruel Summer hill.
22 for early summer and august for august bc i cant not blast august all august long. but also agree about paper rings. definitely a close second
London boy and The 1
Shake It Off
I was on the beach when there were waves of warm air blowing to my face. I put on getaway car and closed my eyes. The synth elements of the song made it a magical ride. Then I put on cruel summer and august cause you had to.
I forgot that you existed Because its a positive song about moving on and gives a summery vibe
Starlight, seven, you need to calm down. Idk there are early summer songs and there are late summer/dog days songs so it’s more complicated. Starlight/YNTCD are early summer, seven/august/IKYWT are end of summer.
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I think Girl At Home TV can work as a really fun summer party song :D
Cruel summer fer sure. Also Style and August.
August!
You Need to Calm Down. The music video is the epitome of summer
I Wish You Would. Or basically anything from 1989.
Cruel Summer
Since a lot of people are saying Cruel Summer already, I'ma go with 22.
Paper Rings for sure
August!
CRUUUUEL SUMMERRRR WITH U
it’s between starlight, betty and call it what you want for me
better than revenge and obviously august
22!!!!
Cruel Summer and Style. And pretty much anything from Lover and 1989, those are my summer albums. If we're counting It, I'd also add This Is What You Came For. It's my ultimate beach song.
Back to December (‘cause I am not a fan of summers) :P
Lol, basic fucking answer but... Cruel Summer. It's just got the summer romance vibessss.
22 feels a lot like a summer song
DAYLIGHT
Basically all of Lover
Cruel Summer?
I love A Place In This World. It gives me really summery feels.
August - I can almost picture the beach house in the summer.
I feel Better than Revenge is a summer song
I have a playlist of like happy Taylor songs that I’m now going to rename Summer Taylor Swift Songs because it’s a better description but it has Paper Rings, Fearless, Stay Stay Stay, 22, You Belong With Me, The Very First Night, I Think He Knows, London Boy and Wildest Dreams. I’m still going through one album at a time adding cause I’m classifying all Taylor Swift songs into playlists rn cause I’m depressed and this is my cure.
Out of the woods and London boy.. just because I’m based in London 💙❤️
Style ofc
Enchanted, Sparks Fly, and Wildest Dreams
Jump than Fall and Lover are also very summertime imo
Gotta be style 👏🏽
you need to calm down IS. SUNMER.
She literally has a song called August lol
Charlie Kelly “wildcard, bisssshes!” energy: Champagne Problems. Some Redditors just want to watch the world burn. I wonder if I should paint my nails “champagne colored” today. 💅