It’s the End of Earworm Season: How COVID Affected This Year’s Summer Songs
Summer is almost over. We know, we know, it hardly felt like it started. But, before the pandemic, songs of summer were a marker of sorts, a stamp on the calendar that reminded people it was finally time to kick back and relax. Summer songs were a herald of the coming season of sun, fun, and plenty of time spent outdoors on a picnic blanket or at an outdoor music festival. But, it's been more than a year now since this whole thing started, and we've all been cooped up in our houses for the whole seemingly interminable journey. So we didn't get our usual amount of summer fun, beach parties, or barbecues. But we still had Spotify, Pandora, and other music services. And we still had those summer songs…