Summer Girls

That LFO song keeps ending up in my head years later and I’m still not sure why it works. It’s just a relentless catalog of late-90s pop culture—New Kids on the Block, Spice Girls, Mariah Carey, whatever was on MTV that week, crammed into the opening seconds. There’s nothing clever about it, no distance, no irony, just a song that commits completely to being exactly what it is. You laugh at how dumb it is and by the third listen you’re singing along, genuinely liking it. Which might actually be the whole point.