Teddy Swims Covers Taylor Swift’s ‘Cruel Summer’ for BBC Radio 1 – Billboard

Teddy Swims introduced a “Cruel Summer” to the winter season on the BBC Radio 1 on Thursday (Jan. 10), performing a canopy of Taylor Swift’s Lover hit on the Live Lounge.

The 31-year-old singer put a soulful spin on the observe, including his raspy vocals to the hook. “It’s new, the shape of your body / It’s blue, the feeling I’ve got / And it’s ooh, whoa, oh / It’s a cruel summer,” he sang.

Back within the fall, “Cruel Summer” rose to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart dated Oct. 28, 2023 — 4 years after its preliminary launch. With “Cruel Summer,” Swift joins an elite membership of artists with 10 or extra No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. In response, Swift and her co-writer Jack Antonoff shared their pleasure over the accomplishment on Instagram, speaking over one another as they thank followers for all their help. “The song that we said was the best song, but we thought, ‘Oh, you know what? This will be our secret best song.’ That’s what we thought,” Antonoff stated of “Cruel Summer,” earlier than Swift chimes in: “We just wanted to say thank you so much for making ‘Cruel Summer’ a Hot 100 No. 1, and it’s not even summer anymore. It’s deep fall, I’m wearing a sweater.”

Watch Teddy Swims’ cowl of “Cruel Summer” beneath.