The song of the summer is quite a theme. Or they can be many. Several artists would not hesitate to sell their mother to have at least one. The song of summer is that ubiquitous theme that plays between December and March in the southern hemisphere, on beaches, hostels, nightclubs, clothing stores, pedestrian streets, or anywhere there is a speaker nearby.
Although this could become the subject of debate, given that every vacationer will return to his place of origin humming that song that has left its mark and which does not have to be the same for everyone, already in November the music industry begins to load coal into the car of broadcast to blast the designated song around the end of the year holidays. And if possible, keep doing it throughout the summer.
Hits of 2023
There are all kinds of examples, but in Argentina, in recent years, summer songs have been predominantly Latin. Without going very far, in 2023, Marisola Remix by Chilean Cris MJ, it was the most efficient rig thanks to the collaboration of Nicki Nicole AND dukiwhose names pushed the song to its limits.
Instead, Guys, now we’re excited again From The fly It was valid up to a week after the end of the World Cup: it reached the saturation point that dehydrated it and could not resist the torrid 2023.
timeless classics
There are also songs that recall summers past and sometimes have a regrowth in rainy summers that put the vacationer into nostalgia mode. Hazelnuts2021 blockhouse hit by Puerto Rico farrukocontinues to radiate the heat of the 2022 season, but hasn’t been able to with songs like get rid of From rosaliaOR The bachata From Manuel Turizowhich has revitalized a genre that Juan Luis Guerra put on everyone’s lips more than thirty years ago.
Those with gray hair (if they have it) can go far further back in time to the technicolor summer of 1969 and hum that “the waves and the wind” and chillsaccompanied by the zucundún of Donald Duckwhich was one of the reservoirs of the hegemonic times of Mar del Plata as a seaside resort, such as dance on one legFrom John and Johnstill in 1969.
It is more current over time my first million From bacilliwhich happened to her huge success Lunar face since 2002. The songs from 1969 and 2002 have nothing to do with each other, but the station is still the sameeven with ongoing climate change.
review of successes
Raise your hand if you remember the success of summer 2013. It was as they say, a summer blast: someone old enough can forget the gangnam style from Korean psi extension? For better or for worse, it’s been a rousing subject, especially in video: It racks up a whopping 4.705 million views on YouTube.
Not so with Spotify, who at that time still tried on pants and didn’t know whether they would be long or eternally short – that speaks volumes. Today, Spotify playlists are more profitable, statistically speaking, than YouTube playlists.
Each song is the daughter of its time, its summer and the prevailing technology. When The ketchupa fine Spanish group, rocked the summer of 2003 with their unforgettable aserejehispanicization of Rapper’s delight of the Sugarhill Gang, radio and television were still the media that collaborated in the imposition of successes. That supremacy has gradually moved to the internet and streaming platforms.
Shakira’s Boom ’23
In this summer, which has already begun the countdown to autumn, perhaps the topic that most fueled the conversation on the net (a very important asset these days) was the collaboration between Shakira and Bizarrap which was interpreted as a retaliation by the Colombian against her ex, the footballer Gerard Piqué, recently kicked out of a restaurant in the company of his girlfriend Clara Chía, simply because the owner of the restaurant is a fan of Shakira.
Even if not all of it was bad news: the question benefited the footballer because in the revolt of brands that the Colombian threw at her head, she took a couple of sponsors. Revenge is sometimes like a boomerang.
Topics from other stations
Then there are idealized summers that grow as fond memories over time, even if the songs didn’t come out during the holiday season. you were mine one summer From Leonardo Faviofrom 1968, is one of the first songs that an Argentine over the age of 55 will mention in a list.
However, in addition to the fact that the single was not released close to the summer, the lyrics seem to speak more of the memory of what was or could have been and how it torments the author, than of the wonder of that fleeting love . There are harrowing summers, no doubt: not everything is like the golden beaches of the beach boyswhere cars haven’t broken down, surfboards haven’t broken, and it hasn’t touched a cloudy day.
And speaking of rain, how can we forget the opposite poles like Summer rain From Johnny Rivers (1967, Northern Hemisphere Summer of Love) or the jingle for a cell phone company that went viral as I’ll nail your umbrella in 2008?
Different times, different summers. Don’t blame the beach.
Source: Clarin
