Round 4: Tossup 7

This time period partially titles a franchise in which a pageant performance of Irene Cara’s “Fame” occurs while a killer attacks on a balcony. The Taylor’s Version of “This Love” premiered in trailers for a show named for this time period, which also partially names a 2025 horror sequel starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. This time period names a Taylor (10[1])Swift song that states “no rules in breakable heaven,” (-5[2])which plays while Belly (10[1])gets ready to go to Cousins in an Amazon Prime series. Phineas and Ferb’s theme song (10[1])claims there are 104 days (10[1])in this time period. (10[1])For 10 points, Billboard tracks the “songs of” what season when one can celebrate the Fourth of July? ■END■

ANSWER: summer [accept song of the summer; accept Songs of the Summer; accept summer vacation; accept “Cruel Summer;” accept The Summer I Turned Pretty; accept last summer; accept I Know What You Did Last Summer; prompt on vacation with “what other time period describes that vacation?;” prompt on last year by asking “what time period within last year?;” prompt on 1996 by asking “what time period within 1996?”]
<Purdue A, Popular Culture> | Packet D
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
Northern CaliforniaMain4100%25%86.50
Southern CaliforniaMain7100%0%83.57
Eastern Canada (1)Main5100%0%69.60
FloridaMain4100%0%82.25
Great LakesMain10100%10%75.30
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain9100%11%78.33
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain9100%0%83.22
NorthMain4100%0%52.50
NortheastMain12100%8%74.58
PacificMain8100%25%79.75
South CentralMain6100%17%76.33
SoutheastMain12100%0%75.33
Upstate NYMain5100%40%80.80