![]() “I think that’s a really relatable, universal thing. “I thought it’d be interesting to write a song, using ‘deja vu,’ about how sometimes when somebody moves on in a relationship and they get with a new partner, you watch it and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, that was all of the stuff that I did,'” Rodgrio told American Songwriter of the song. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, credits Clark, Taylor Swift, and Jack Antonoff for its heavy interpolation of Swift’s “Cruel Summer” (see above). Well before Olivia Rodgrio released her 2021 debut, Sour, it was already a massive hit with singles “driver’s license” and “deja vu.” The latter track summons the tastes, sounds, and smells of a more repetitive moment in time, from cruising in Malibu, strawberry ice cream, and watching Glee on TV.Ĭlark technically didn’t have a hand in penning Olivia Rodrigo’s “deja vu,” but her name is on it for good reason. Written by Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro also credited St. ![]() What doesn’t kill me makes me want you more I’m always waiting for you to be waiting belowĭevils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes You have conversations before the album comes out and everyone around weighs in on what they think should be singles and I was finally about to have my favorite song become the single off of ‘Lover.’”įever dream high in the quiet of the night Initial D - Deja Vu Metal Cover (Eurobeat Goes Metal) Alex Yarmak 9. ![]() “‘Cruel Summer,’ that song was my pride and joy on that album,” said Swift to the audience. Stream songs including 'Deja Vu (2020 Version)', 'Initial D Hell (2020 Version)' and more. The resurgence of the song “Cruel Summer” led to streams of the song jumping 120 percent on Spotify. Listen to Deja Vu: The Gold Collection by Dave Rodgers on Apple Music. The song experienced a boost in the spring of 2023 when it was featured in the 2022 Amazon Prime series The Summer I Turned Pretty. Swift decided to release “Cruel Summer” as a single in 2023, four years after the release of Lover. 1 on the Billboard 200 with its initial singles hitting the Top 10 and Top 40 of the Hot 100, “Cruel Summer,” the story about a secret romance - Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes / What doesn’t kill me makes me want you more - was somewhat of a sleeper hit until it began climbing up the streaming charts in 2023. When Taylor Swift released her seventh album, Lover, in 2019, she always wanted to release “Cruel Summer,” a song she wrote with Clark and co-producer Jack Antonoff, as a single.
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