Cruel Summer
Brutal hot months
Cruel Summer is a 1983 song by the British band Bananarama, later revived through Taylor Swift's 2019 track of the same name.
The phrase captures the particular ache of summer romance gone wrong or longing unfulfilled—heat and heartbreak intertwined: It was a cruel summer without you.
The Swift song's popularity spawned a TV series and made the phrase shorthand for any season of romantic torment.
- heat waveExtended extreme warmth
- dog daysHottest summer weeks
- heatwaveProlonged abnormally high temperatures
- swelteringExtremely hot, uncomfortably so
- relentlessContinuing without pause
scorching · brutal · merciless · Taylor Swift · pop anthem · love song · Bananarama · heartbreak · sunburn · burning up · drought · oppressive · blistering · sweat · humid · unforgiving · endless · torture
- summer songsMidsummer Night
- Taylor SwiftTaylor Swift, albums, Red, 1989, Speak Now
- CW ShowsGossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Arrow, Supergirl
- Kanye WestThe College Dropout, Yeezus, Donda, Yeezy