Haim deserves the honorific beside Jepsen. “Forever,” Haim, 2013 – Sorry, Jepsen is tied for the most under-appreciated pop artist of the past decade. “Emotion” is a delicious fluff ball of cotton candy yum that marries Jepsen’s girl-next-door aesthetic with intricate production that winks at Berlin, Belinda Carlisle and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis masterpieces. “Emotion,” Carly Rae Jepsen, 2015 – Jepsen is the most under-appreciated pop artist of the past decade (century?). But if “Cruel Summer” gets a shot at the title, so do a whole bunch of other underappreciated jams and lost gems from years past. So this summer, let’s let Swift and her four-year-old song give “Last Night” some much needed competition. Of course, last summer Kate Bush nearly took the title with a four-decades old song (see the resistance of “Running Up That Hill”).
But Swift is mounting a furious, late-entry challenge with “Cruel Summer.” The twist is “Cruel Summer” originally came out on Swift’s 2019 LP “Lover” and was only released as a single last month. Some background: Morgan Wallen’s thoroughly mediocre “Last Night” looks like a lock for the title (three months at No. Does her hacking of the Song of the Summer “rules” open the field to a flood of awesome potential contenders? Absolutely. Is Taylor Swift cheating in the Song of the Summer race? Probably.
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