The summer is starting in earnest, which means corn, hot dogs, and most importantly, songs that correspond to the season. Every summer needs a defining jam, a song that you can't go anywhere without hearing but doesn't really get old. Here are three picks for songs that deserve to be heard over and over for the next three months:
Best I Ever Had (Remix) - Drake feat. R. Kelly
This is a radio dominator, the kind of song that gets everyone in the car singing along and will be played at least once every hour. I'm a sucker for well-placed profanity, and this song has it in spades. If you haven't heard this song, don't drink anything the first time you listen to it, otherwise you will spit it all over when a line catches you off guard. Because it will. In these troubled times, this song gives us what we need: A fun R. Kelly ode to fucking. Myspace?
Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell - Das Racist (Wallpaper Remix)
File this one under "gloriously stupid." Here's the story: one guy is at the combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell, and so is the other guy, but they don't see each other. One guy has a lot of smells, the other has that pizza butt. You'll love this one until idiots find out about and ruin it for you, like "Paper Planes" or something. Or maybe that won't ruin it, and I'm just an elitist douchebag. Certainly possible. In any case, this is a worthy addition to the summer novelty song canon. Myspace!
Stillness Is the Move - Dirty Projectors - buy
Dirty Projectors are making a move to claim every ass for themselves. By that I mean if this song doesn't make your ass shake, you must not have one. A combination of West African guitar, flawless harmony, huge drumbeats, and, of course, Mariah Carey, this song is not only the best song of the summer, but may end up being the best song of the whole year. It's a perfect marriage of Dirty Projectors' mind-expanding experimentation and Hot 97's well-constructed pop. Dirty Projectors are your new favorite band.
2 comments:
You did not just post Pizza Hut/Taco Bell. A few months ago Kelly and I Got Slutty 09 at this weird party thing expecting to dance but the dance room just had like five people on acid so we went to the other room to wait it out and Das Racist was performing. It was hilaaarious (that was said Dave Chapelle/Nick Cannon style). And what about Patron Tequila? That is clearly the top summer jam.
That's funny. They're going to have a long, illustrious career being the next U2, and you can say you saw them way back when.
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