Roséwave: Summer's Simple Pleasures

All Songs Considered

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

You asked, we listened: Roséwave is back! Our summer playlist series returns with syrupy sweet songs from the likes of Amerie, Wednesday, Addison Rae, Marvin Gaye, and more.

Featured artists and songs:
1. The Jamies: "Summertime Summertime"
2. The Lijadu Sisters: "Come on Home," from 'Horizon Unlimited'
3. Amerie: "Why Don't We Fall in Love," from 'All I Have'
4. Waxahatchee: "Much Ado About Nothing," from 'Tigers Blood (Deluxe)'
5. Wednesday: "Elderberry Wine," from 'Bleeds'
6. Katie Gavin: "Aftertaste," from 'What a Relief'
7. Marvin Gaye: "Ain't That Peculiar"
8. Haku.: "Looking Through My Subtle Double Eyelids," from 'Catch'
9. Labi Siffre: "My Song," from 'Crying Laughing Loving Loving'
10. Azymuth: "Faça de Conta," from 'Azimuth'
11. Linda Ronstadt: "How Do I Make You," from 'Mad Love'
12. Addison Rae: "Diet Pepsi," from 'Addison'

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0:00.0	Well, America has spoken.
0:04.3	They've had it with all the waiting and the wondering.
0:08.6	They're just not going to do it anymore.
0:12.8	They want their rosé wave playlist, and they want it now.
0:17.8	This is not the vibe we're bringing into the party, Robin.
0:23.4	It's all songs considered. I'm Robin Hilton, and after a painfully long two-year break, Lars Gottridge, Marissa Laruso, are back
0:29.7	with some sweet summary jams to, well, I don't know. What does Rose Wave do for you?
0:36.0	What does Rosalie do for me? Marissa, do you want to take this? Oh my God, I don't know. What does Rose Wave do for you? What does Rose Wave do for me?
0:38.8	Marissa, do you want to take this?
0:40.8	Oh, my God. I was just about to say, Lars, you start. You are the founder of Rose Wave.
0:45.5	All right. There's a discussion in Slack about the band Hyam.
0:50.7	And our colleague, Otis Hart, said, oh oh yeah, they're rosé corps.
0:55.1	And I said, no, I think the preferred nomenclature is rosé wave.
1:00.9	And the idea was not to name a certain style of music, but a style of being, where it's just that summary feeling. It's a little easy, it's a little breezy,
1:13.6	it's a lot of feeling, it's a lot of Car They Rade Jepson-style emotion, but if it necessarily pop music,
1:21.6	it can be any kind of anything. So it started this series of summer playlists.
1:28.3	It's a good shorthand.
1:29.3	Yeah.
1:30.3	Rose-a, just rosé, it just says so much.
1:33.3	So if people search for a rosé wave on our site, all one word,
1:37.3	you will find literally hundreds of songs handpicked by y'all going back to 2017. That's right.
1:45.0	And for a good while, it was a summer tradition for us.
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