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Will smith summertime madness mashup3/16/2023 “Summer doesn’t start until this anthem is played. “It ain’t Summer till I hear this joint!” It brings all kinds of the best childhood memories. “30 years later still the Summertime anthem □.” Many claimed that summer didn’t begin unless that “anthem” played. In addition to the track’s secret, Smith also shared that “Homebase” turned 30 years old as he captioned the clip, “We dropped this album 30 years ago!! Truly summer madness Upon hearing the news, fans flooded Smith’s comment section with nostalgic memories of the “Summertime” song. the recording continued, the “Bad Boys: For Life” star excitedly began jamming and citing the song’s first verse’s lyrics, which lasted until the video faded out. Two years later, the song is still in Spotify’s Top 50 Global most-played songs, so that’s the third summer in a row it’s sticking to our psychs like a melted Solero.Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff remind fans that their 1991 hit “Summertime” was a sample of Kool & The Gang’s “Summer Madness” as they celebrated the album’s 30th anniversary. A year after it was released, Heat Waves topped the Billboard Hot 100, the longest-ever journey taken by a song to the US number one slot. Heat Waves was released back in June 2020, and hit the UK top 10, but as a winter of Covid discontent set in, more people turned to the song to keep them feeling warm and fuzzy during lockdown. It doesn’t even have to contain the words “summer” or “sunshine”, or even be about summer - although, just to save some time, I’m going to stick with lyrics of a vaguely summery bent, otherwise we could be here until September. It doesn’t have to have been released during the summer months - because as soon as the sun comes out, it’s sure to get heavy rotation on the car radio. A good summer anthem will wash away all that rain, bathe you in ultraviolet rays, and leave nothing but blue skies.īut what makes a great summer anthem? Just as a good Christmas song should give you that Christmassy feeling, a good summer song should evoke that summertime feeling and trigger thoughts of long, lazy summer days by the beach, barbecues, driving with the top down, or sunbathing with the top off. Every time we hear Bryan Adams’s Summer of ‘69, we’re immediately brought back to summer 1985, when every day was a sunny day - at least on MTV. ![]() Perhaps it’s the dearth of real sun, but we also love a good summer anthem - it’s a bit of nostalgia for those summers past we never really had. And this year there’s the added worry of whether we’ll even make it through Dublin Airport to catch our flight to the sun. ![]() The barbecue and sun loungers we optimistically brought out of the shed at the end of May are looking rather forlorn under grey skies by the end of July, and the shorts and T-shirts we’ve pulled out of the cupboard in anticipation of sunny days are still lying there waiting to be worn. ![]() Sure, there’s bound to be a heatwave sometime in the season to get us all scrambling for the sandals, but overall, the months of June, July and August are a mediocre mix of cloud, rain and the odd glimpse of sunshine. There’s no getting away from it - we don’t get much in the way of summer in Ireland.
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