Larry Fitzmaurice is currently listening to "Return of the Mack." Follow him on Twitter. That second thing I'd love to see happen? I want "Gasolina" to be the song of the summer. I want to see the blue lady from The Fifth Element vibing out to "Gasolina." I want to hear "Gasolina" playing over the video to Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt." I want to make sure the "Cash Me Ousside" girl is nowhere near "Gasolina," but I would be totally okay with "Shovel Girl" making a strong comeback to the tune of "Gasolina." (Please, though-no videos of the guy getting dragged off the United flight to the tune of "Gasolina." We need to have standards.) Here's two things I'd love to see happen, though: I would love it if, by this time next week, the internet-your timeline, my timeline, and the trend-chasing sites that are constantly trying to find the good shit on our respective timelines-is awash with memes that overlay "Gasolina" atop questionably appropriate performance footage. These are hard questions with no real answers, I know.
What this post presupposes is: Maybe it's not? What if "Gasolina" is exactly the song we need to hear this summer, at a time when ? Why does the song of the summer have to be something foisted on us by the record industry to enjoy during a specific period of time adjacent to when the "something" in question was released? Why can't it be "Gasolina"? That last question is especially relevant to the website you're reading: earlier this year, we proclaimed Mark Morrison's classic "Return of the Mack" as the official song of the summer, despite it being mid-February when we made such a proclamation. Nicky ended up moving to Colombia to rebuild his music career and get clean, while Yankee dominated the reggaeton genre with more hits like 'Rompe' and 'Somos de Calle.' The two did not speak for over 10 years until a chance encounter on a flight. Is it the most-streamed song? The song that's on the radio the most often? Do you even listen to the radio anymore? Is it a song that's spiked in popularity due to a YouTube dance craze? Does the song of the summer even have to be a song that came out this year? Nicky Jam and Daddy Yankee squashed their beef in 2015 and are still friends today.
It doesn't get any easier with every passing year, because the barometer for what makes the song of the summer the song of the summer shifts as often as the music industry itself does. Lest you think that I'm getting carried away here, I'd actually like to take things one step further: What if "Gasolina" is the song of the summer? Ah, yes, that time-honored tradition we all know and love-trying to predict the song of the summer.
Also, they serve as a reminder that "Gasolina" is a great song, one that exudes an indomitable spirit in every moment of its pulsing insistence. But, and this is an objective opinion, the two instances shown here of what will now be known as The "Gasolina" Meme are extremely good. Now, there's no Newton's Law of Memes (that I know of), so I don't know how many instances of a meme being proliferated and spun off of makes a meme. You see what's happening here? Radiohead are not the meme anymore "Gasolina" is.
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