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Amazon Prime just dropped a teaser trailer for The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3, and keeping apart how beautiful the Belly and Jeremiah montages are for a moment, what really caught our eye was the Taylor Swift music that graced the background of this teaser trailer.
The creators made a very clear artistic choice when they decided to use one Taylor Swift song, Daylight, for the Jeremian and Belly montages and abruptly shifted into Red, just as Conrad makes an appearance at the very end of the teaser.
Here's what the two Taylor Swift songs could mean for the future of Belly's relationships in The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3.
Is Taylor's music a metaphor for Belly in The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 teaser?
Daylight by Taylor Swift
The minute-long teaser starts with Daylight playing while Jeremiah and Belly are incandescently happy in their little bubble. They are having the time of their life with their three-legged races and dances in the middle of campus.
"I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you (I could never look away), and I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you (Things will never be the same)."
Taylor Swift sings while the happy couple in The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 have movie nights in their pool and make out all around the campus and the Cousins Island.
In the song Daylight, Taylor entertains the idea that in her previous relationships, she was surrounded by darkness, and that she has been unlucky in her past relationships. But, now that she has stepped outside of these relationships into the "daylight", she can see those relationships for what they were, and she can accept that
"Everyone looked worse in the light / There are so many lines that I've crossed unforgiven."
Taylor experiences a growth in this song as she learns to let go of all the things that have gone wrong before, and not vilify her past; she tries to move towards the light, and focuses on the positives and the people in her life that she loves.
This song playing in the background of The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 teaser, while Belly and Jeremiah are in their bubble, could mean that this relationship is the 'daylight' for Belly, where she is learning to accept herself and her past. She's trying to look at her history with Conrad in a more forgiving light while falling more in love with Jeremiah.
The Season 2 ending hotel room scene where Conrad says goodbye to Belly and Jeremiah with Exile (feat. Bon Iver) by Taylor playing is the most devastating description of acceptance. Conrad accepts the fact that Belly and Jeremiah are together, despite his feelings for her, and asks them if he'll see them on July 4, Sussanah's favorite holiday. He walks out the door (breaking all of heavy hearts), leaving Belly and Jeremiah behind, living with her choice.
With Conrad's acceptance, The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 might portray Belly's journey of acceptance as well.
Red by Taylor Swift
The fact that Daylight's golden light bleeds into Red could also be a metaphor for The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3. Just as we find ourselves falling into the golden bubble of happiness that Jeremiah and Belly are in, Taylor abruptly shifts from "I once believed love would be burning red, but it's golden" in Daylight to "Loving him was Red" in Red as Belly opens the door to Conrad.
The song Red by Taylor Swift paints a rollercoaster of emotions in a tumultuous relationship, which is the most apt description for Belly and Conrad's relationship. Taylor uses the metaphor of the color red to describe intense passion, heartache, and love.
"Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street/Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly."
Taylor uses the song Red to experience the intense highs and lows of a relationship, and if the song is a metaphor for Belly's relationship with Conrad, we have some surprises coming up in The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3.
"Regretting him was like wishing you never found out/That love could be that strong."
This song choice could mean that even though Belly is in a place where she learns to accept herself and her past while in a happy relationship with Jeremiah, her "passionate as sin" feelings of love continue to bleed into her present, forcing her to confront if love is golden or red?
Jenny Han has teased the ending of the show endlessly, claiming that it will be true to the story but will be surprising for the fans.
The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 (Taylor's Version)
The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 teaser trailer is far from the first time that the Jenny Han show has featured Swift's music. The Season 1 trailer for the show premiered the then-unreleased This Love (Taylor's Version), and throughout Season 1, the most important Conrad and Belly moments were marked by a Taylor Swift song accompanying them. Belly and Conrad meet at Cousins for the first time that year to Lover, and Cruel Summer softly accompanies Belly while she tells Taylor (her best friend) about her feelings for Conrad, they have their almost first kiss to False God and their actual first kiss to This Love.
Taylor has been a pseudo presence throughout The Summer I Turned Pretty through her music, and showrunner Jenny Han even talked about how Swift's music has been a part of the show's vision from the very start. Other shows have featured Taylor's music (The Bear and Richie singing along to Love Story (Taylor's Version)), but The Summer I Turned Pretty has used Swift's music to push their story forward, to sometimes say things that words couldn't possibly say.
When Delicate, showrunner Jenny Han's favorite Taylor Swift song, plays while Belly realizes her feelings for Jeremiah, it is more than clear that the Season 2 arc would end with Belly choosing Jeremiah over Conrad Fisher. The Season 3 teaser songs, Daylight and Red, have made the metaphorical journey even more confusing, because Belly will have to choose between the happy love over the one that has the highest highs and the lowest lows.
It is going to be an enchanted affair to witness The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 with Taylor's presence (if history repeats itself) when the show premieres on July 16, 2025.
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