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It’s just not as strongly written as his previous singles, and feels belabored, the last descriptor you want for a summer single.Įvery element of “Summer” feels like a second choice.
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It made “Feels So Close” feel both specific and universal, the necessary paradox of any pop hit. I don’t think Harris’s voice is the problem here I actually don’t mind it and vastly prefer it over the seemingly bottomless reserve of sexy-baby-voiced F-list chanteuses typically enlisted to sing about being young and feeling things all over their bodies on club filler tracks. Going solo for his bid in the summer song wars would seem to be a gesture toward recommitment to his scrappy roots, but “Summer” is every bit as bubblegum as, say, “I Need Your Love.” It just doesn’t have the simple, contagious melodies of that track or any of the collab’d singles off of 18 Months. Harris has proven his ability to tailor crowd-pleasing dance tracks that manage to highlight and elevate the particular qualities of the female vocalists he works with as a pop producer alone he’s a formidable force. top-10 hits (that didn’t do too shabbily in the U.S., either). “Summer” is his first post– 18 Monthssingle, an album that produced an unbroken string of U.K. I don’t know if there are any less-inspiring opening notes to an attempted summer jam than the opening to Calvin Harris’s “Summer.” Over warbling Casio strings, Harris, singing on his own track for the first time since his 2011 breakout hit, “Feel So Close,” dispenses with some summer-love clichés, his off-kilter voice laid uncomfortably bare on the track. YouTube Hit Count: 75,152,486 at time of publication 9 on Billboard’s Hot 100 (currently)Ĭurrent Radio Play Frequency: No.