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"I don't want to keep secrets just to keep you" This week on AP Taylor Swift, we're going line-by-line through Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer" (Lover, 2019). This episode turns into a deep dive into fever dreams, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, attachment theory, and the surprising twist that the real red flag in this song might be Taylor herself.
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Mentioned in this episode:
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Episode Highlights:
[04:02] How we do a deep dive
[06:48] “Fever dream high in the quiet of the night”
[11:34] “Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes”
[13:20] “It’s blue, the feeling I’ve got”
[19:20] “Hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine”
[25:10] “Cut the headlights, summer’s a knife”
[29:47] “I’m drunk in the back of the car”
[34:15] “He looks up grinning like a devil”
[40:08] Purpose of the song
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