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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

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Speaker 2: A new trend has emerged where relatively old songs become

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Speaker 2: current hits, the most infamous being Kate Bush's nineteen eighty

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Speaker 2: five single Running Up That Hill, but Miguel's twenty ten

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Speaker 2: hit Sure Thing and The Weekends Die for You from

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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen are other recent examples, and the latest art

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Speaker 2: is to benefit from an old song being given new

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Speaker 2: life is none other than Taylor Swift with Cruel Summer

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Speaker 2: of twenty nineteen's lover her album. Taylor shared her story

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Speaker 2: with the crowd at a recent Pittsburgh show, saying Cruel

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Speaker 2: Summer was my pride and joy on that album. You

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Speaker 2: have conversations before an album comes out where everyone weighs

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Speaker 2: in on what the single should be. For the first time,

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Speaker 2: I was going to have my favorite song become the single,

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Speaker 2: she explains. When twenty twenty's global pandemic happened, it no

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Speaker 2: longer felt like the right song to put out, so

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Speaker 2: they were forced to scrap the plan. Taylor adds, no

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Speaker 2: one understands how this is happening, but you guys have

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Speaker 2: streamed Cruel Summer so much Right now. In twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: We've decided to make it the next single. So how

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Speaker 2: high can Cruel Summer climb? Right as summer begins, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.