Where's the song of the summer? Plus, the making of Beyoncé's 'Crazy in Love'

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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It's been 20 years since Beyoncé's single Crazy in Love poured out of every radio, car speaker and club for a whole summer — setting her up to be the solo star she is today. Host Brittany Luse revisits that moment and shares the surprising story behind the music with show producer Corey Antonio Rose. Then, she sits down with Beyoncé's longtime stylist Ty Hunter, who put together the iconic looks in the Crazy in Love music video. And finally, she discusses why there is no song of the summer for 2023 — and why that matters — with NPR culture editor Bilal Qureshi.

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0:00.0	Hey there, you're listening to It's Been A Minute From NPR.
0:06.3	I'm Brittany Loose.
0:07.8	And I know we're just starting, but I want to do a little thought experiment with you.
0:13.0	If you were to hypothetically stop this podcast and walk down the busiest street in town,
0:18.1	the one with all the bars and the cars with their windows downblaring music, if you were
0:22.6	to just stop and listen.
0:25.0	I bet you would not hear 2023's Song of the Summer.
0:31.0	And that's because I'm here to declare there isn't one.
0:35.5	It's the middle of July and there's no song we can't stop listening to and also low-key
0:42.4	hate at the same time.
0:44.5	I'm also here to declare that this is a problem.
0:49.5	For a certain generation, the Song of the Summer was tradition.
0:53.5	We anticipated it, we craved it, we hated it, but we all did it together.
1:00.3	NPR culture editor Belal Koreshian, I, are of that generation.
1:04.6	And the other day, we were talking about the summer that Beyoncé wrote the charts.
1:09.2	On July 12, 2003, 20 years ago, this week, her debut solo single Crazy and Love went
1:15.4	number one and stayed there for eight weeks.
1:27.5	I mean, I think with a song like Crazy and Love, it was the kind of full assault on music
1:32.3	video, fashion, the image, the song.
1:35.8	It was that sort of feeling of it being like 3D all summer.
1:39.7	You know what I mean?
1:40.7	And kind of being everywhere all at once, you know, like that movie.
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