If you didn’t sing “Summertime” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince in your head just now, are you even alive?
But sometimes questions like this tell us more than we expect. Music and memory are wrapped up in each other tighter than kids in beach towels after a cannonball contest. The right song can take you back to a version of yourself you forgot existed—the one with fewer responsibilities, more sunburn, and a flip phone.
For me? It’s anything by The Beach Boys (unless it’s their awful Christmas song). Every time I hear those sweet harmonies, I’m instantly transported to carefree summer days filled with sunshine, convertibles, and Hawaiian Shirts.
What’s yours? Maybe it’s that one song from the summer you fell in love, or the one that blared from every pool party speaker between 2008 and forever. Or maybe it’s something that wouldn’t make any top-40 list, but it makes your summer feel like yours.
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So… what song screams summer to you?
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