Cut to the Feeling

"Cut to the Feeling"
Single by Carly Rae Jepsen
Released	May 26, 2017
Recorded	2015
Genre	Power pop[1] synth-pop[2]
Length	3:27
Label	604 School Boy Interscope Lakeshore
Songwriter(s)	Carly Rae Jepsen Simon Wilcox Nolan Lambroza
Producer(s)	Sir Nolan
Carly Rae Jepsen singles chronology
"It Takes Two" (2017) "Cut to the Feeling" (2017) "Party for One" (2018)
Music video
"Cut to the Feeling" on YouTube

"Cut to the Feeling" is a song recorded by Canadian singer and songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen, from the Canadian-French animated film Ballerina (2016). It was released as a single on May 26, 2017, to promote the film's release under the title Leap! in the United States. The song was later included on the track list of Emotion: Side B+ (2017), a Japanese-exclusive expanded version of her second EP, Emotion: Side B (2016), serving as its first track. The song was written by Jepsen, Simon Wilcox, and Nolan Lambroza, and produced by Lambroza. The song serves as the theme song for the MTV reality series Siesta Key.

Billboard, The Guardian, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair named it one of the best songs of 2017 in their respective year-end lists. Commercially, the single was successful in Japan where it reached the top twenty, peaking at number 13, and was certified gold by the RIAJ.