Italk a lot about the music on The Summer I Turned Pretty because it is genuinely impressive how on-the-nose these songs can get. Conrad gets a sad surprise? “No Surprises” by Radiohead. Conrad is sad watching Belly and Jeremiah celebrate their upcoming summer wedding? “Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer.” And in “Last Dance” — an episode centered almost entirely on Conrad manfully white-knuckling his way through helping Belly with wedding errands — all of the expected Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo has been replaced with songs ripped straight from a Classic Wedding First Dance Songs playlist on Spotify.

In the car, Belly and Conrad listen to “Songbird,” of course, because Fleetwood Mac accompanies all of Belly’s poignant Conrad moments. Later, at a roadside fruit stand (abandoned app

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