St. Vincent on how the song she wrote with Taylor Swift became a huge hit four years later

The power of a song is one thing, but the power of Swifties is quite another. St. Vincent – ​​aka Texas alt-rock powerhouse Annie Clark – can attest to both. Towards the latter half of the last decade, Clark went into the studio with Taylor Swift and producer Jack Antonoff and the trio wrote Swift’s song Cruel summer It appeared on the pop superstar’s 2019 album “Lover” and that was it.

But that was not the – last year, on the back of Cruel summer performed at Swift’s record-breaking Eras Currently touring the UK, Swift fans caused the song to go viral, leaving Swift’s record label Republic with virtually no choice but to re-release it as a single some four years after it was first released. Recently, Clark told this writer in an interview for Music Week what it was like to see the Swifties show off their full power.