Songs of the Summer 2019

Odds that Old Town Road sticks around another three months?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Ov5jzm3j8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlE3BpBMIz4

OTR will not be on my 2019 summer playlist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upaK_pXZDJU

Σtella - "Samba"

horses in the bacc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXL3vMqLNg
Floorplan - I Feel Him Moving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCT3bizHEVs
Project Pablo - Without Knowing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7033W-8meI
Francis Bebey - Sanza Nocturne

https://youtu.be/CByY-jHK62E

Yumi Zouma - bruise

https://youtu.be/1LGM82uPuvA

Genius Of Time - Peace Bird [RB075]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqciDHhX5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S468AL3uG-w

Rema • Dumebi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUU1bIWpH5c

DJ Tunez ft. Wizkid & BlaqJerzee • Gbese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GxzBuHAavo

Summer breeze makes me feel fine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkKjvQ8PYd4

Tresor ft. Msaki • Sondela

Oof that Tresor track is damn smooth

after seeing this I think we can safely declare a winner:

why is this video of a sea of elementary school kids going HAM to old town road literally the funniest video i’ve ever seen in my whole life pic.twitter.com/iXItFq50QG

— ari ⑪ (@wasteIandbaby) May 30, 2019

I'm going to be playing this Goldlink / Maleek Berry / Bibi Bourelly afropop jam a lot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNaXK4Guies

"Zulu Screams"

new toro y moi remix of bombs away is bomb and makes me think of gr80 for some reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMVz8qW271E

Rosalía has already won this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFUhty8EF4

maybe so but i still want 2 hear moar jamz 🦄🍄☯️🏳️‍🌈🙏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2W6dG_B6zs
Lola Indigo ft. Lalo Ebratt • Maldición

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltYUH6fEYdE
Paloma Mami • Fingías

f yeah give me all of that u got

paloma mami is dope i am discovering

My non-summery life revolves around Dumebi (posted above by Breastcrawl) but let me add Fireboy's Jealous anyway since I usually play them together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00R4dOtzDIA

^song of the year

yes, quite possibly.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/07/the-heat-is-on-how-to-make-the-feelgood-hit-of-the-summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPHn3UTNSZQ

Tendaness ft. Bholoja & LO • Jika

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SldyCVP02VM

Zero12Finest ft. ThaMagnificent2 • Baby Are You Coming?

ceraadi "loyal"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdABWzEewNA

sacred paws - "brush your hair"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RBuYR4YO5E

weki meki - "picky picky"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT0Ere4_k6s

love the synth bass on “Picky Picky”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeXy4tYV8FQ

Miraa May ft JME - Angles

OK I want to hear this out of every car window in London.

i love "zulu screams" v much

miraa may song is fire

for real

Piso 21 - puntos suspensivos

https://youtu.be/D-bYv33e6N0

Really popular and released 9 months but technically this is its first summer in the northern hemisphere

angles is dope

an anyone doing a playlist of these ?

On it: ILM☀️Songs of the Summer 2019.

(work in progress, and I’m sorry, carne asada, but “Old Town Road” is on your playlist twice!)

Done and dusted, so let’s have lots more of everybody’s summer jams!

(currently enjoying Genius of Time’s “Peace Bird” off that playlist)

that whole ep is worthwhile

this album is also great summer fare btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toaZv4J2Mqo

The title track sounds unfathomably summery to me right now, but you get to choose the track for the playlist - which one will it be?

(my bad, that is one track - thought you meant you posted the whole album)

naw, but whole album is worth exploring!

(work in progress, and I’m sorry, carne asada, but “Old Town Road” is on your playlist twice!)

lol fair enough

My endless summer loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeJeRmHZtrg

Jungle Beats • Sapha Lonto

is "Sucker" the normie song of the summer? I hear it *everywhere*

everyone i show this song to hates it but it is my summer song ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hLJeGl9wi8

you talk a lotta BIG GAME for someone with such a SMALL TRUCK

Lmao my friend just sent me that song and I was about to post it here after searching in vain for any other ILM gecs threads

When I go back to work tomorrow I'm gonna ask the interns if any of them have heard it lol

i feel like this is gonna start some fights at the year end poll

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/songs-of-summer-pop-hits-deconstructed-clock-1203251230/

Since breastcrawl mentioned it in another thread, here's NSG's OT Bop. It's definitely a bop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkoX45IEuOk&frags=pl%2Cwn

https://gfcic.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thumbs-up-smiley-face.png

So we're almost in July : by now the official song of the summer should be at full throttle !
What is it ? (I'm old and soooo out of the loop I might not have heard it yet...)

wow "baby are you coming" is MONUMENTAL.

J Balvin, Bad Bunny - como un bebe

the Francis Bebey track upthread is absolutely incredible as well.

Goldlink - u say (feat. Tyler the creator)

Brijean - show and tell

and the Etella song!

this thread is fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwEyLhwL54

That Balvin x Bunny track moka mentioned, with heavy Nigerian involvement (it was produced by Legendury Beatz and features Mr Eazi).

the Goldlink is phenomenal

and that is, too, breastcrawl..

Would you be interested in our playlist? ILM☀️Songs of the Summer 2019

"spanish song" is my personal goldlink pick but it's not a single, so

You can post any summer(y) song your heart desires, is how I understand this thread.

this one's a grower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwD9S4onuQ0

wow "baby are you coming" is MONUMENTAL.

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, June 30, 2019 1:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I CANNOT STRESS HOW TRUE THIS IS. this is the track of the summer for me, hands-down.

the video also has some of the greatest comments i've ever seen on a YT vid.

Vilho Gottlieb . 2 months ago

mom enters my room
Mom: switch that off
Me: Why?
Mom*angry*: WE GOT BETTER SPEAKERS IN THE SITTING ROOM!!

This is kind of from last year depending on which country you're from, but Marvay's 'At Large' is my summer sunshine anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMipOUYSnqE

The only good thing about Old Town Road is that it sounds like he's singing 'I'm gonna take my horse to a hotel room'. Video's funny though.

SAULT - let me go

I think “5” will be my album of the summer, at least in the first weeks. The whole album is great but “let me go” mixes northern soul with jaki liebezeit styled krautrock drums. So I’m in love.

People who liked “Baby Are You Coming?” also liked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVP1HcXQhA
MFR Souls ft. TallArseTee • Bamb’ikhanda

(I like the vibe of that party!)

thanks for that rec Moka! that whole album is dope. Can't find a lot of info on the band though xp

Yeah I had to write them for more info and for a release date on any physical formats as there’s almost no info on them atm. They just replied to keep my eyes on their social media... which is limited to instagram I think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ik7IRkzFU

Equiknoxx - Manchester ft Fox & Brent Bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaxpYnPbx6g

Schacke - Kisloty People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FundLlhlUgk

"Kisloty People, where is your past?
Kisloty People, how long will you last?"

damn no one posts rap music in here unless its from London

Ambjaay - Uno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_M1UoraeFw

I feel like YG's "Go Loko" (which feels like a blatant conceptual rip-off of this) manages to be more "effective" and less creatively successful at once

Duke Deuce - Yeh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWJNTJ_FLj4

Duke Deuce is bringing that crunk energy back w/ a ton of personality, personally very into

T9ine - Mind of a Real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFyPuglJh6s

more relaxed summer anthem, they deleted the original upload of this which had way more streams but its been growing steadily over the past couple months

Yeh is thee summer anthem no doubt

I probably could post Pop Smoke also cuz I'm sure a lot of ilxors will like it w/ its britishes bassline but personally i think the song is just ok & apt to be overrated for pandering to that

This song technically came out last year but the remix has 220 mil streams on YouTube in the past 5 months & will be on my personal list

https://youtu.be/rm8krFiAJBw

As far as Chicago street records go this has a shot at being a big record this summer as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_a_-lVyH0

the last two are

Dalex - Pa Mi (Remix) ft. Sech, Rafa Pabön, Cazzu, Feid, Khea and Lenny Tavarez

&

Prince Glo & Jackboi Boomain - Glockies

I also know this isn't a cool artist to be into but I think "Fast" is quite a good song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQpS1rH3zI

I hear the Soulwax mix of Work It everywhere I go just now

damn no one posts rap music in here unless its from London

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, July 17, 2019 4:31 PM (yesterday)

thread needs more videos shot in Chicago apartment kitchens

here ya go, deej

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fNzLHGXfRA

this one is low-key, but still summer-y imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfePuh4kOvc

Jamila Woods singing "shut up motherfucker" is my song of this summer

lol that post wasn't quite so trench in my head, so here's Burna Boy's "Anybody" to make up for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so4dgTRaWFk

and Chronic Law "Hillside":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pXUCgWQwEE

(skip to 1:51)

yeah 'anybody' is as good as anything burna has done

I am unreasonably excited for his new album

He also has a (solo!) track on the Beyoncé/Lion King album that’s coming out tomorrow.

oh and rob, I added Jamila’s “MILES” to the playlist.

ha nice, I do like acknowledging that summer can also mean hot/humid/pissed off

There's a lot of potential in that Lion King tracklist, but I listened to most of "Spirit" this morning and uh, it sucks, no? I never like Beyonce in that mode though

miles is good but my jamila song of the summer is basquiat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XezEKGO7Tys

“Spirit” is from the movie soundtrack itself and doubles on the *other* album, the one that she has “curated”, so it will hopefully be an outlier there.

xp of course

Someone sent me this on Twitter, quite enjoying even tho its not much of an alteration from the original sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T8c250kPVQ

thread needs more videos shot in Chicago apartment kitchens

― alpine static, Thursday, July 18, 2019 9:47 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

true of every thread

sizzling is great, so is the rest of that EP

i just wanna luh u
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM50ahgsRMc

can't stand anything on that Daphni EP, personally.

Beyoncé in summery afropop mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8IadO0O2nw

“Find Your Way Back”

Not sure what there is to dislike about “sizzling”

xp
it's pretty damn flawless imo

Très chaud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kHnFYzYC-0
Sidiki Diabaté ft. Safarel Obiang • BKO-ABJ

Another one from the Afropop thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBWdmypdkYI
Diamond Platnumz • Kanyaga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vVhHD-_IzM

Biig Piig - Sunny

Jenny Hval - High Alice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxvnQGY4wPI

this random Willow song from 3-4 years ago blew up on TikTok in June and I feel like a couple million kids will strongly associate it with this summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4RRPY32RY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j3x0VYnehg

Rosalía x Ozuna • Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi

For all the sleepwalking panenka scorers, Lizz - Rise Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_76mN6BZdM

oops thats the wrong one, keeper saved it!

retake!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN8Aq0SH99g

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBV_QDDPUk
LIBERATO - OI MARÌ (CAPRI RDV Ep.02)

That's a damn good find!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBioIsLoXoE

Swae Lee ft. Drake • Won’t Be Late

Summer, fall, winter and spring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hywcq4KTJAQ

Busy Signal • Balloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJdMgYIELMM
Alina Pash - Slukhay

Been listening to her recent album a lot this summer - there's a lot more traditional instrumentation in there than you'd expect.

At tonight’s VMAs:

SONG OF SUMMER PRESENTED BY SAMSUNG:
Ariana Grande & Social House – "boyfriend" -- WINNER
Billie Eilish – “bad guy”
DaBaby – “Suge”
Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber – “I Don't Care”
Jonas Brothers – “Sucker”
Khalid – “Talk”
Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus – “Old Town Road (Remix)”
Lil Tecca – “Ransom”
Lizzo – “Truth Hurts”
Miley Cyrus- “Mother’s Daughter”
Post Malone ft. Young Thug – “Goodbyes”
ROSALÍA & J Balvin ft. El Guincho – “Con Altura”
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – “Señorita”
Taylor Swift – “You Need To Calm Down”
The Chainsmokers & Bebe Rexha – “Call You Mine”
Young Thug ft. J. Cole & Travis Scott – “The London”

In honor of its big win:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SRxBTtspYM

I love Ariana, and I wish I could say deserved winner, but in what climate / timezone / hemisphere is “Boyfriend” the Song of Summer?

(added it to the playlist of course)

Those noms are garbage.

Too right, so let’s forget about those SamSungs and continue to focus on our own Songs of Zimmer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnO3wxDfJXw
Lulu James • Zim Zimmer

Little known fact: she has her own thread.

Lovely reggaeton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a76lWh5yJCU
Ceasese ft. Polimá Westcoast & Young Cister • Te quiero ver

I love Ariana, and I wish I could say deserved winner, but in what climate / timezone / hemisphere is “Boyfriend” the Song of Summer?

It was a fairly big hit in a lot of countries, and has a fresh, summery vibe. Doesn’t seem like a crazy choice!

Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice and it totally fits on this thread, but it’s not even a big hit by Ariana’s standards, let alone the kind of dominant song that defines a summer for lots of people, which is the point of this type of award afaict.

Turns out it’s a social media award, so it really reflects online mobilization.