Happy summer solstice (yesterday)!A new summer is born, which comes with about 40 new songs that you'll constantly hear on the radio. How will you spend the summer of 2011? Will you still pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?(Please don't.) Will you become a California Gurl? Is my love your drug? Do you wanna be a billionaire so freakin' bad? But the real question of the summer will be will you kick it in the front seat or the back? (Ok, I'm sorry I referenced Rebecca Black).
Hard life questions.
It's time to start making those summer playlists right now...if you haven't already. If you're not a radio fan and/or are getting really sick of hearing "The Lazy Song" on every single radio station this summer, hopefully my summer song selections will help you. Because I don't know about you, but I'm getting pretty tired of hearing about Bruno Mars throwing his hands in his pants and chillin' in his Snuggie. Too much information if you ask me.
So I have complied a list of summer songs (because I have nothing better to do with my time), all summer related because who doesn't love a song about the best season, warm weather, and endless nights? Five songs for your sentimental summer nights by the bonfire. (Or with this weather, five songs for those rainy summer days.) Five songs for your hot summer day. Hopefully a couple these songs will spark your interest. If not, well, I tried and you can go back to Bruno Mars and maybe he'll teach you how to dougie.
For those clear, star gazing summer nights.
1. Thunder by Boys Like Girls
Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer. Do you know you're unlike any other? You'll always be my thunder
2. Summer Again by The Afters
As she falls I try to catch her for one last touch of warmth from summer. As one thing leaves to becomes another again. I remember when oh to be with summer again
3. Dusk and Summer by Dashboard Confessional
She looked deep into you as you lay together quiet in the grasp of dusk and summer.
4. Tim McGraw by Taylor Swift
Just a boy in a Chevy truck that had a tendency of gettin' stuck on backroads at night. And I was right there beside him all summer long. And then the time we woke up to find that summer'd gone.
5. "Riding the Brakes" by Awake and Dreaming
Her name’s California and we have got chemistry, fusing our hearts, with sunsets ‘til 10, and streets where we’d hang out ‘til quarter to 4 in the AM. Then pass out with our clothes on beneath the piers and boardwalks and wake up to the waves.
For those warm summer days to blast through your rolled down windows.
1. 21 and Invincible by Something Corporate
And it's been autumn since the day that I met you. If I hit bottom must I crawl out alone? And I don't wish to know the secrets of summer at all.
2. All Summer Long by Kid Rock
It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long, caught somewhere between a boy and man. She was seventeen and she was far from in-between. It was summertime in Northern Michigan.
3. American Honey by Lady Antebellum
There's a wild, wild whisper blowing in the wind calling out my name like a long lost friend. Oh I miss those days as the years go by. Oh nothing's sweeter than summertime and American honey.
4. Penny and Me by Hanson
Cigars in the summertime under the sky by the light I can feel you read my mind. I can see it in your eyes under the moon as it plays like music every line. There's a rug with bleeding dye under the fan in the room where the passions burning high by the chair with the leopard skin under the light. It's always Penny and me tonight.
5. "Growing Up" by The Maine
Photograph, remembering the summer. It takes me back to Southern California. Where the girls would all pass on the boardwalk and laugh at our desperate attempts and our sunburned backs.
Happy summer.
