The song of the summer is DEAD

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Long live the song of the summer. But wait! Switched on Pop’s Charlie Harding disagrees. And Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos says maybe it never existed at all. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think the song of the summer is dead.
0:05.0	Let's wind it back to 2003.
0:09.0	This song was inescapable.
0:11.0	Sometimes it still is. A few years later another banger with
0:16.5	Beyon's husband then Black-Eyed Pease, Carly Ray, Blurd Lines, One Dance,
0:21.4	Desposito, Beast's all of them. And then in 2019 we get what I think was our last
0:26.8	song of the summer, the series finale.
0:32.4	The biggest songs on the charts in subsequent summers just haven't been as big
0:38.5	IMHO. Did you hear Rock star everywhere you went?
0:43.0	Or Morgan Wallin, that guy who loves the N-word?
0:46.0	Yeah, you know you love to find.
0:49.0	Please!
0:50.0	The song of the summer is dead.
0:52.0	You're usually right, but I think you're wrong.
0:54.0	We'll see about that on Today Explained.
0:56.0	Woo-hoo.
0:58.0	Stop.
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