Swemos, This One Is For You: Sleep Theory Just Dropped a Cover of Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer"
If you've been living in the overlap between Taylor Swift and the alternative scene, congratulations, Swemos, this is your moment.
Sleep Theory (Cullen Moore, Daniel Pruitt, Paolo Vergara, and Ben Pruitt) have quietly become one of the most interesting bands when it comes to re-imagining songs you never expected to hear with crushing guitars and soaring vocals. Their latest move? Taking one of the defining songs of the Eras Tour and giving it the full Sleep Theory treatment.
Today, the band surprise released their new covers EP, (E)motional (S)upport (C)are (P)ackage via Epitaph.
For the SWEMO crowd, though, there's one track stealing the spotlight.
Sleep Theory have unleashed their version of Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer," and it's exactly the kind of crossover that reminds us the line between Swifties and elder emos gets blurrier every year.
Watch the video here: "Cruel Summer" Music Video
Whether you came from Warped Tour, The Eras Tour, or both (and let's be honest... a lot of us did), this cover feels like it belongs in that growing library of songs proving pop songwriting and heavy music have always spoken the same emotional language.
"Cruel Summer" joins Sleep Theory's previous studio covers of NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" (already a fan favorite in their live set) and Paramore's "My Heart," creating a covers collection that bounces effortlessly between pop, nostalgia, and post-hardcore emotion.