just having the girls over for some daiquiris while we blast Hot Summer and swim in the pool

this album truly is a monumentous social statement

I think people just think it's a bit corny and bland for a Prince song. I don't hate it, and I'm curious to hear it in the context of an album.

Anyone remember when Prince was being a dick about old bands of his trying to use their original names, and put out the Mutiny/Ice Cream Castles rehearsal, saying he's "taking back the ship/U shoulda been a little more hip?"

And then Fdeluxe got him with an epic troll. It's probably not as funny if you're not from a state that has a Menards. https://soundcloud.com/dr...-menards-1

I've always loved it. Fun and catchy little pop song, nothing wrong with it IMO.

i don't think i would feel comfortable playing this song in the company of anybody

Hot Summer is a cheesy pop song that makes Katy Perry's "California Girls" sound like a master piece.

It is weird, with me actually loving the first two digital singles of the Welcoe 2 America album, but in 2010, Hot Summer was played on The Current and then was widely shared by the ones not near their station and came right after Purple And Gold, which IS a song I severly hate, while I just merely severly dislike Hot Summer. It just sounded feeble, somehow, just as Rich Friends and Cause And Effect; it sounded like Prince got sloppy on the songwriting front, both melody and lyrics could not interest me.

While the two new songs sound warm to my ears; the music and lyrics flow. I was never a big fan of Prince backing singers doing solos or too much shouting/wailing, it sounded jarring to me, but on Welcome 2 America they're awesome. If that and Born 2 Die had been released, and played live, I would not have gotten bored with Prince in 2010, which is what I did.

lustmealways said:

just having the girls over for some daiquiris while we blast Hot Summer and swim in the pool

this album truly is a monumentous social statement

lustmealways said:

i don't think i would feel comfortable playing this song in the company of anybody

Shit, Hot Summer sure cannonballed that pool party.

I don't hate it like I did back then, but this is by no means his best especially from this hit & miss era.

It's Shake, Cream and late 00's lyrical laziness.

I was 16 when this came out and was real annoyed at the let downs when news of a new Prince single would come out. Was really hoping he would hit really big to be relevant to my demographic at the time haha

I catch myself singing the chorus of this song more than I'd like to admit.

I think it's a decently catchy song that moreso falls into the guilty pleasure category than a really good song.

lustmealways said:

just having the girls over for some daiquiris while we blast Hot Summer and swim in the pool

this album truly is a monumentous social statement

Well, this comment calls to mind the state of young women at the end of a heavy night clubbing. Like, what on earth could be monumentous about that.
But eh, maybe that's how Prince picked them. Get 'em drunk and then 'pretend' rescue them after they jump in the pool.

I remember when it was released and I didn't like it. Can't remember anything about this song. Don't feel the urge to listen again, but I know I will at least once: when the W2A album drops!

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Prince knew the heatwave was coming this year back in 2010 I like how he smuggled in commentary on climate change in a song without anyone knowing. So clever. No heavy handedness. Always ahead of his time.

Yeah man, I was also very impressed by prince predicting the year 1999 by 1982 already!

funkaholic1972 said:

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Knowing that he released this song in 2010 on some radiostaion for his 52nd birthday,

i thought, let's give it another try. I feel good today.

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Well, i listened a couple of times (3x) to give it a chance, but ... oh my.

The song sounds like a uninterested short dry fart coming from funky tight ass.

This isn't even a pop song to me.

It's nothing more than a children's tune for a children's program.

Sorry guys.

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It kicks off with a sloppy beat and an out of place distorded hold-back guitar riff, and an awfull drum fill-in.

The scream ''Oh Hot Summer'', doesn't sound hot at all.

OK for the organ, but it's a ripp off of ''Shake!''

The whole production is lame.

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"Oh, hot summer
Hot summer yeah
Oh, hot summer
Hot summer yeah
Hot summer yeah
Oh, as long as You're my
Oh, as long as You're my"

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Very inspiring, deep intelligent and promissing lyrics. :-/

So that's the first 0:32 sec.

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"Hot summer, hot summer yeah
Just wait and C
Hot summer, hot summer yeah
Shoo-be-do-we
Hot summer
Oh, as long as You're my
As long as You're my company

C the people gathered all around
Dancing 2 a futuristical sound

Some of them R teachers, some R clowns
All deserve a hug and a pound
'Cause it's gonna B

A Hot Summer"

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That is one hell of a futuristic sound to see all the people (Who?) gathering around.

I mean really ?? Teachers & Clowns ?

Yep, they deserve a hug and a ... pound. :-O

Prince ? Were you sleeping when you wrote these hopeless lyrics ?

"Let me see you shake your head now"

Sure i'm sticking my head underneath a pillow.

And from hearing his low uniterested voice backed by an annoying background singer,

he didn''t had loads of fun.

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"Everybody's got a favorite friend
They got your back no matter what till the end
Ain't got no breaks but got a whole lot of bend
Every broken heart can mend"

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Prince, you can do way better than this.

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U better believe it
Y is life always a mystery?

Life just is not a mystery (but that's a whole other conversation i never had the chance to have with Prince).

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"It will B whatever it will B
It all depends on what U think U C
U, eye don't know, but me

I think its gonna be a hot summer..."

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So Prince thinks it's gonna be a hot summer (...)

And then the repeated part of this uninspired lyric...

The guitar solo is a not even to mention, just a throwaway and out of place effort.

It ends !

What a shit track this is.

Hope there is no extended version.

Sorry guys.

Peace though.

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Wonder what Tal Wilkenfeld has to say about this.

Now tell me where the climat change thing is in these lyrics ?

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[Edited 7/22/21 2:58am]

Listening to it now. I like the guitar riff and the cheesy sounding organ....has a "So Far, So Pleased" vibe to it...Not crazy about the song, but it would fit right at home in a wine cooler/seltzer commercial.

I want to like this. I really do. But now I know why I completely forgot about this song. Its boring and uninspired. Prince sounds bored singing it.

Poplife88 said:

Weak.

It sounds like a commerical jingle for a cut-rate amusment park. Canyou picture it playing on a local TV commericial over top images of midwestern families disengenously smiling as they ride a tilt-a-whirl and float down a lazy river? Once of those jingles that is intended to be annoying to get stuck in your head?