Taylor Swift’s hugely popular synthpop track “Cruel Summer” went to No. 1 on the Billboard chart last October, four years after it debuted on her 2019 album Lover. But she isn’t the only artist who ...

Bananarama’s Sara Dallin said the music of the 1980s is more “organic” than today’s music. In addition, she said Bananarama’s “Cruel Summer” had a big impact on the musicians of subsequent decades.

Keren, Sara, and Siobhan in 1983. (Credit: Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty Images) “Older and wiser feels good. To be able to continue making music is a joy,” says Bananarama’s Sara ...

Bananarama's own "Cruel Summer" became the British pop act's breakthrough U.S. hit in 1984 Alma Rosaz Taylor Swift’s hugely popular synthpop track “Cruel Summer” went to No. 1 on the Billboard chart ...

“Older and wiser feels good. To be able to continue making music is a joy,” says Bananarama’s Sara Dallin, who feels lucky to have had a career spanning more than four decades.“Technology has changed ...