Summer Love: Essential Songs for a Hot Vacation
Every affair in these lovely times needs a fitting soundtrack, don't you think?
Summer is finally here! This season is a time for dreaming, enjoying, running along the beach, and resting (a lot). It’s also the perfect time to let loose and do whatever we feel like in the moment.
The heat, the sea breeze, the nighttime parties, and the collective joy encourage us to seek love, to want to feel it intensely, with all our senses. And we know that music has historically played a more than important role here, being one of the most characteristic and beautiful means through which our memories are created.
So yes, at LOS40 USA, we’ve put together some songs that cannot be missing in each stage of summer romance this 2024, whether it ends well (hopefully) or ends badly (hopefully not). Ideal for listening to with your crush or for sending them if you haven’t started a conversation yet.
The Encounter
Every love story, fleeting or not, begins with that visual contact, that approach, the act of getting to know that person who arouses a pleasant sensation in you. It could be at a party, a beach club, a terrace sipping some margaritas, or even at the coffee machine if you’ve had to work this summer.
You might remember that first encounter (although, well, it doesn’t necessarily have to be the first; you might have realized later, trust the signals, destiny, you know) by listening to some of the great tunes that precisely talk about this feeling, whether you know this person previously or not, like Emilia and Ludmilla’s ‘No_Se_Ve.mp3,’ Rauw Alejandro and Bizarrap’s ‘Baby Hello,’ the very viral Peso Pluma and Eslabon Armado’s ‘Ella Baila Sola’ or Karol G’s latest ‘Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido.’
The Seduction
If everything goes well and you flow with the summer heat, sooner or later, the temperature between you will rise, and you’ll need to be more than prepared. That’s why our favorite artists have gifted us with songs like Rauw Alejandro’s ‘SANTA,’ ‘Puntería’ by Shakira and Cardi B,’ or ‘GATA ONLY,’ by Cris MJ and FloyyMenor.
All these hits move to the next level, that of seduction, closeness, and complicity, calling for letting oneself go. Each one has its own style: from the hip hop power of Trueno in ‘REAL GANGSTA LOVE’ through the emotive ‘Un Desperdicio’ by Rels B and Junior H, to reaching ecstasy with ‘LALA’ from our Young King, Myke Towers.
End of Summer: What Now?
Well, what goes up must come down, right? It’s clear that almost everything ends, the lights at the party go out, and it’s time to return to the much-avoided reality of these vacation days. But hey, that doesn’t mean love ends (although its intensity diminishes considerably with the speed of routine).
But there are also those songs that take us back to those memories, nostalgic and enduring, whether they’re good or bad. Tracks like Saiko, Feid, Quevedo, and Mora’s ‘Polaris (Remix),’ Bad Bunny’s ‘ADIVINO’, or Feid’s ‘LUNA’ paint beautiful memories on the horizon.
If you’re going through a heartbreak, don’t worry! Fortunately (or unfortunately), this year is undoubtedly the year of breakups and the hits that come after.
You have plenty of songs to listen to while cursing that person who, after what happened, hasn’t left you with a good memory: from Nicki Nicole’s ‘OJOS VERDES’ through Belinda’s ‘Cactus’, or any song that Anuel AA has released lately.
And you, what memories will this summer leave you with? Let’s hope they’re all good!