Taylor Swift — You Need To Calm Down

You are somebody that I don't know
But you're taking shots at me like it's Patrón
And I'm just like "Damn, it's 7:00 a.m."
Say it in the street, that's a knock-out

The second single from Lover is back across the global charts during Pride month, tracked across 105 country and platform charts after an eight-day gap. The timing is the story: a synth-pop kiss-off built as an LGBTQ allyship anthem, its video stacked with queer celebrity cameos and closing on a plea to support the Equality Act, the track resurfaces every June as the calendar does the promotional work. Written and produced with Joel Little, it won Swift her second Video of the Year at the 2019 MTV VMAs, per Wikipedia. Its older sibling "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" aside, this is the cut from Lover most explicitly engineered for the season. The Guardian recently ran a 20-year retrospective on Swift's cultural footprint, keeping the catalog in circulation.

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