Ask Losanjealous: What’s the Song of the Summer, 2009?
By Ryan - Wednesday September 02nd 2009
Every now and again people turn to us for advice:
dear losanjealous,
i am writing to ask your help in identifying the song of the summer, 2009.
do we give it to “she wolf”?
i feel like throwing in the towel.
thanks in advance,
eric
Lupine-themed songs and performers peaked mid-February 2007, Eric. Return to the site next Tuesday (that’s your Labor Day Week Monday) for your answer. Meantime: readers, feel free to postulate and throw your own submissions into the comment section (but please, don’t make me flesh out a voting poll).
La Roux “Bulletproof.”
Phoenix – Lisztomania
phoenix “1901″
fool’s gold “surprise hotel”
girls “lust for life”
the entire foreign born album
i think we need to take off our indie hats (aka trucker hats) and think mainstream, otherwise the song of the summer would most definately be Cool Jumper (duh!). Like yester-summers saw Umbrella, I Kissed a Girl, or American Boy, the song of the summer has to be good only in as much as it gets the most amount of people from around the PBR tubs and onto your livingroom dance floor. I hate to say it but it looks like Summer Song 09 goes to I Gotta Feeling.
I’m going with “Two Weeks” by Grizzly Bear
i like all of the above mentions except the bep song. will have to put more thought into this but so far i’m digging miike snow’s “animal” a lot.
I second Girls – Lust for Life
Yacht – Psychic City
Discovery – So Insane
me goothta mucho.
alright then, what about She Worf?
http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/7/7b/Vekma.jpg
Chester French has a funny cover of “She Wolf.” I can’t link to it, but if you got to their site you can check it out. Wait a minute: scroll down. http://chesterfrench.com/blog/
i second —
anything by Phoenix
Psychic City – YACHT
And the winner is???
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DELERIUM!!
Butterfly
sleepyhead (passion pit)
Sounds like you’ve picked either Obsessed or LoveGame. If that’s so, bleeeech!