Accept it. Move on. Start playing “Call and Maybe” again. Every summer for the past few decades, Americans obsess over one song. What makes summer the perfect breeding ground for this phenomenon? I don’t know. It’s probably some conspiracy and has something to do with PRISM.
We started this decade strong, Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” blasted from car windows and at pool parties. Then in 2011 the mom-rap hit “Party Rock Anthem” had us shuffling well into September. Last year, we had the grand daddy of all summer songs: “Call Me Maybe.” I dare you to find anyone who doesn’t feel the need to finish the rest of the song after hearing “I threw a wish in the well.”
We’re already in July and we don’t have anything even close to a ubiquitous summer song. I work at a summer camp and I can admit that the closest thing we have is Iconapop’s “I Love It,” but it doesn’t create the kind of madness other summer songs do when if starts playing.
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Several news outlets, including CBS, NBC and Billboard, predicted our summer song would be Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” but this disco-revival, electronic single is polarizing and isn’t even that catchy to begin with. Other “contenders”–if they can even be considered that–include “Blurred Lines” and “Cruise”. Robin Thicke’s song is another Nu Disco experiment that can’t achieve that ubiquitous, earworm success. And “Cruise”? Really? Nobody was looking for Nelly to make a comeback and nobody wanted it to be yet another comically bad country collab. (Note: Country songs are too niche to be considered summer songs. Sorry, white people.)
So, what will be the song that will define the summer of 2013? Psy and Carly Rae Jepsen really did us a disservice when their respective songs “Gangnam Style” and “Good Time” peaked during the fall of 2012; both easily could have been 2013′s hit. I propose we keep “Call Me Maybe” fever going. Nobody’s sick of it yet and it’s still playing on the radio. Besides neon pink tank tops, it’s the only thing elementary-school girls and frat guys have in common, and for that, it may just deserve two years on top.
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