What makes for a summer song?

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Robin Hilton, Anamaria Sayre and Hazel Cills gather to share songs that feel like summer — and that means staying indoors to avoid the heat as well as partying on a Brooklyn rooftop. (Note: A version of this conversation appeared in this feed last July.)

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0:00.0	Well, it's blazing hot outside.
0:02.0	We are totally in the grips of summer now.
0:04.8	And, you know, I don't know about you, but, you know, summer for me is that time of year.
0:09.8	You know, I like to pack a nice picnic lunch, you know, put on a pair of hiking boots.
0:16.3	A little bug spray and sunscreen, safety first.
0:19.2	You know, and I like to go for a nice long walk to explore some of the lesser-known,
0:24.0	off-the-beaten places in my house.
0:27.1	Yeah, I was going to say, this is not tracking.
0:29.6	I was like, keep going, but I'm not buying this.
0:33.5	Yeah.
0:34.0	I mean, how well do I really know that cedar closet in the basement?
0:37.8	You know, there's always something new to discover.
0:41.1	Adventure awaits.
0:42.5	Anna Maria, if I had to guess, I'd say you love summer.
0:45.2	What about me gives you that idea?
0:48.2	You radiate summer.
0:49.7	Everything about you says Summer.
0:51.4	Summer is my season.
0:53.0	I am year-round summer lifelong summer
0:55.9	hazel you i think but you hazel kind of go either way with you i'm not sure maybe not so much i am
1:01.7	definitely a reformed indoor kid i think as a younger person i absolutely hated summer camp
1:08.0	hated being outdoors just wanted to be inside my home watching movies in a cold, dark space.
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