Taylor Swift reveals Cruel Summer will be her new single... four years after releasing song on Lover

Taylor Swift revealed which one of her former hit songs will be her next single during her concert in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

While performing at her latest stop on The Eras Tour, the 33-year-old songstress stopped to confirm that she will be re-releasing Cruel Summer from her 2019 studio album, Lover.

The singer-songwriter said she had previously intended to release 'my favorite song' as a single in the summer of 2020.

The Midnights hitmaker — whose father made $15.1 million from the controversial sale of her catalog to Scooter Braun in 2019 — explained that because of the pandemic, the plans were halted.

Now, with the song rising in the streaming charts, she announced that her record label made the decision to make Cruel Summer her next single.

Exciting news: Taylor Swift revealed which one of her former hit songs will be her next single during her concert in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday

'So basically, Cruel Summer was on the Lover album,' the Pennsylvania native began. 'That album came out four years ago.'

'And I just need to let you know something,' she continued. 'Cruel Summer — that song was my pride and joy on that album. That was my favorite song.'

'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,' she explained. 

She added: 'And I'm not trying to blame the global pandemic that we had, but that is something that happened that stopped Cruel Summer from ever being a single.'

Then, the multi-Grammy winner expressed her gratitude to her loyal fans in helping her grant her wish. 

Swift continued: 'So what's happening right now — thanks to you — and honestly, no one understands how this is happening, but you guys have, like, streamed Cruel Summer so much right now in 2023 that it's, like, at the top. 

'It's rising on the streaming charts so crazy,' she said. 'And my label just decided to make it the next single.'

'It's truly, truly perplexing to me because I just haven't had something like this happen in my career,' she added. 'So thank you to anyone who has been listening to that song like 500 times a day because that is my favorite one.'

'My favorite song': While performing at her latest stop on The Eras Tour, the 33-year-old songstress stopped to confirm that she will be re-releasing Cruel Summer from her 2019 studio album, Lover

Many years later: The singer-songwriter said she had previously intended to release 'my favorite song' as a single in the summer of 2020. The Midnights hitmaker — whose father made $15.1 million from the controversial sale of her catalog to Scooter Braun in 2019 — explained that because of the pandemic, the plans were halted

New single: Now, with the song rising in the streaming charts, she announced that her record label made the decision to make Cruel Summer her next single. 'It's rising on the streaming charts so crazy,' she said. 'And my label just decided to make it the next single'

A cruel summer: Four years ago, Swift released the track as part of her seventh studio album. Lover marked her first album release after her departure from Big Machine Records

Four years ago, Swift released the track as part of her seventh studio album.

Lover marked her first album release after her departure from Big Machine Records.

A highly-publicized dispute emerged after Braun bought the record label and acquired the ownership to Swift's old masters.

Due to the acquisition by the music executive, Swift is not allowed the creative freedom of owning her songs and has, since then, taken to releasing her own versions of her older albums.