Summer Jams '09

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.

Oh man oh man oh man

Bjork and Dirty Projectors will be playing a show together May 8th to raise money for Housing Works. Decider has the details. This has the potential to be the greatest concert since maybe the beginning of time. Mozart is rolling over in his grave like "Shit! Why didn't I think of that?" Imagining Bjork's voice entwining with the Dirty Projectors' is making me salivate. A future classic band at the top of their game teaming up with one of the greatest artists in any field of the past twenty years or so? Playing a suite written by Dave Longstreth? I think I'm going to set up a PayPal account so y'all can give me money to buy a $300 ticket so I can report back to you. It's my journalistic duty! Brandon Stosuy is bomb as fuck.

Bjork and Dirty Projectors together may sound something like this:

Dirty Projectors-Hyperballad

I shouldn't post this, as this will only make us excited for something will we not get to experience. Let's just hope they do an album together. Drool.