Musings on Katy Perry, Cee Lo Green and The Summer Anthem Phenomenon

Ahh Summer... a leisurely time for dripping ice creamas the pimp of the dancing candy mamas and started
cones, greasy sunblock and those saccharin sweetrapping!" I live in California and I'm a girl but this stuff
Pop songs that score the yearbook of your Summernever happens to me, luckily. Somehow it doesn't all
memories. Now that Summer 2010 is starting toadd up, but it sure is catchy!
resemble Don Henley's break-up song comparingCee Lo Green's mixed messaged hit F**k You is
Summer flings to the waning days of a baseballsweeping the nation. This uplifting dose of booty
season Boys Of Summer, a thought has popped intoshaking retro Soul is quite inviting until you realize that
my head (yes, it happens occasionally) - Why do weit's a bitter dialog toward all of the blinged out Hoochie
need Poppy soundtracks to memorialize the warmestMamas who have dissed him based on his lack of
months of the year?Benjamins (although I have a feeling that being light on
It's been a really long time since Summer Vacationfunds will not be Cee Lo's problem anymore). Upon
meant having a few months off between semesters.first listen you find yourself grooving along and then a
After a while we grow up and discover that workstark realization hits you that this song ain't about
knows no Summer Vacation aside from sacrificing abunnies and flowers as the music would suggest. It's
few of the allotted and much coveted vacation dayslike receiving a bouquet of roses with razor blades
at your place of employment (what a gyp!), but alashidden in the folds of the petals. You don't know
we still latch onto those comforting anthems ofwhether to dance along or shout the profane epithet
Summer. Here's my take on a couple of the mostback at him. It's very confusing.
popular tunes streaming on iPods across the countryAfter all of this pondering, I guess Summer is a time for
immortalizing the Summer of 10':revisiting the innocence of our youth. Music makes
Katy Perry's Synth Pop toe tapper California Gurls iseveryone happy (unless you were born with no heart),
an inescapable force on top 40 radio right now. Herso it all makes sense that the upbeat bouncy tunes
Candy Land canvassed video seems to be the thingstand as an eternal parallel landmark to the time we
of nightmares unless you think clowns are cute. Thisallow ourselves to let loose. Now that school is officially
video is definitely worth a YouTube browse, people.back in session, all that's left to do is watch some
The synopsis of the music video would go somethingfootball and brace ourselves for those crisp Autumn
like this: "I had the WEIRDEST dream last night! I wasevenings. And bust out a nice rendition of Autumn
trapped in this crazy candy hell where the gummyLeaves.
bears flip you off... and then Snoop Dogg showed up