Cut to the Feeling

"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 Emotion: Side B (2016), as well as the tenth anniversary edition of Emotion (2025). 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 Hungary and Japan where it charted at numbers 23 and 13. It also received gold certifications in Japan and New Zealand.