TheGoldStandard said:

Just finished reading an article that notes the lack of a definitive, inescapable "summer song" for 2015. The article claimed this is the first summer since 1910 without a mainstream hit to obsess over. Its almost twenty weeks til Christmas. . Is it that one that sounds like Marvin Gaye's Lets Get It On? I seem to hear that everywhere radio is played (ie 7-11, the barbershop, and Subway sandwich shop lol). Are we ready to just go without? What is your hit song for summer 2015?

I would say "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth could be the summer '15 anthem, but that song started to become famous in April. It's still overplayed now (after all these weeks, it's still big enough to be at No. 3), so I guess some will consider it a summer smash. No other song recently has been this popular.

Maybe that "Cheerleader" song?

I would say "Erything" by D.R.A.M.

I've been too obsessed with Hiatus Kaiyote's new joint. I wish I were more in the loop.

Obvious choices:

Sugar - Maroon 5

This Summer's Gonna Hurt - Maroon 5

Shut Up and Dance - Walk The Moon

FourFiveSeonds - Ri

the last I heard college kids screaming at the top of their lungs in a hotel I was doing patrol in and had to tell them to stop three times...for that reason I will always remember this tune as a beginning of the summer track.

Dont forget:

"Lean On" by Major Lazer

[Edited 7/21/15 19:03pm]

My summer jam so far

paisleypark4 said:

Obvious choices:

Sugar - Maroon 5

This Summer's Gonna Hurt - Maroon 5

[Edited 7/21/15 19:03pm]

Boner killer.

"See You Again" is inescapable, thats for sure. Its just not FUN or carefree. I'm gonna check out Gun's suggestion after work.

I heard "Shut Up and Dance" at Taco Bell once, I remember being like WTF is this Eurovision nonsense doing on the radio. Its pretty awful but totally radio friendly.

TheGoldStandard said:

Just finished reading an article that notes the lack of a definitive, inescapable "summer song" for 2015. The article claimed this is the first summer since 1910 without a mainstream hit to obsess over. Its almost twenty weeks til Christmas. . Is it that one that sounds like Marvin Gaye's Lets Get It On? I seem to hear that everywhere radio is played (ie 7-11, the barbershop, and Subway sandwich shop lol). Are we ready to just go without? What is your hit song for summer 2015?

Got a link to this article?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-song-of-summer-is-dead_55ae63b2e4b0a9b9485288f0

The Song Of Summer Is Dead

What are we supposed to listen to while day-drinking?

Lauren DucaEntertainment Reporter, The Huffington Post

It's been officially summer for a while now. Months have passed since you had your "first iced coffee of the season," the condensation pooling on your iPhone screen as you excitedly snapped a photo of the brown liquid. The 4th of July has come and gone, our celebration of grilled meats as ephemeral as the flash of fireworks on our Instagram feeds. And as we creep past the I-hope-my-co-workers-don't-notice-these-pit-stains phase into the I-hate-everything-literally-when-is-winter? period of the season, we are still, somehow, without a Song of Summer.

It is more than halfway through July, and the whirring of your piece-of-crap, window-unit air conditioner is probably a better contender for Song of Summer than anything we've heard so far. Although perhaps ambient noise is a better option than what we got last year: a song from an Australian...ican south and trying to con us into thinking she was the "realest."

Is the Song of Summer dead? Could it be that the advent of streaming services and decline of the once omnipresent radio have shifted to dilute the possibility of the anthem which has defined the sea... the 1910s? Is everything is just terrible?

We are flailing around like one of those blow-up tube men outside of a car dealership, desperate for a sense of direction.

One thing is for certain: We are desperate for a song of this summer. In May, Billboard posted a poll, and One Direction's "No Control" won by a landslide after a guerilla effort by The...76% margin. In June, Ryan Seacrest held a "song of summer competition," during which he presumably asked a few people and also Giuliana Rancic for their opinion, ultimately naming "Pretty Girls" the winner.Vulture and Entertainment Weekly have since published their own lists of 2015's contenders, which contain precisely neither of those songs and have no songs in common to boot.

We are flailing around like one of those blow-up tube men outside of a car dealership, desperate for a sense of direction (possibly led by One Direction). What will define the zeitgeist of this pop culture season beyond a newly racist Atticus Finch and more disgusting news about Bill Cosby? Most importantly, what are we supposed to listen to while day-drinking?

We can't wait any longer. We have to pick a song of summer or this summer will be lost in the blackhole of history, as forgettable as that time you went to brunch without your cellphone. Your options are below, America. Vote for one of these crap choices or the Song of Summer will die like Tinkerbell in productions of "Peter Pan" where the audience doesn't clap hard enough.

See my original thread from last month

So What Song Will Be the Smash Hit of Summer 2015?

http://prince.org/msg/8/416659