The year: 1999. The song: Summer Girls, by LFO. The lasting impact on popular culture: zero. So why does that son still fill us with uncontrollable rage and acute nausea?
Perhaps it is extra awful it took all the way ’till the end of the 90s to have a song that truly encapsulated all that was crappy about pop music of decade. The half rapping, the frosted tips, the aggressive selling out, all of it combines in a tornado of terrible. Perhaps it is still too soon for this song to be so bad it’s good?
And then there’s the lyrics. In the Wikepedia entry for Summer Girls, they list off all the random references LFO manages to drop.
Cultural references in the song include: Cherry Coke, Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin, Alex P. Keaton, New Edition, Footloose, New Kids on the Block, Beastie Boys, Larry Bird, William Shakespeare, Abercrombie and Fitch, Michael J Fox, Cherry Pez, Paul Revere, Kevin Bacon, Mr. Limpet, Chinese Food, pogo sticks, Candy Girl, The Color Purple and Fun Dip.
Honestly, if we didn’t know anything about that song, but had just read that list, we’d be totally interested in hearing Summer Girls. We’re pop culture whores, so we’d be seriously into it. Seriously, Mr. Limpet and The Color Purple? That song sounds awesome!
Sadly, the actual lyrics are little more than that random list. None of the lines have anything to do with the ones that come before them, and Summer Girls turns out sounding like “Rich” the song’s narrator has a severe case of ADD.
If you want to argue with us, please carefully read the beginning of the songs chorus, and then tell us it isn’t ridiculous.
New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick
And I think its fly when girls stop by for the
Summer, for the summer
Holy smokes.
LFOs “Summer Girls“, we officially nominate you for Worst Song of the 90s!
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