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From left: Paula Fernandes, Titica, JJ Project, and Romeo Santos
It's the first day of summer, but you may well already be sick of the "song of the summer"—whatever that turns out to be. If Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe," Rihanna's "Where Have You Been," or "Titanium" by David Guetta and Sia seem ubiquitous now, get ready for three more months of Top-40 blasting out of car windows and iPod speakers at barbecues.
Why, though, should summer party playlists be limited to what's big on American airwaves? There's a whole huge world of music out there, of course, and while some of it does wash up onto our radios—Carly Rae Jepsen is Canadian, Rihanna is Barbadian, David Guetta is French, and Sia is Australian—a lot of it can be quite huge, even globally popular, without ever coming near U.S. audiences.
But with the global reach of the Internet, nothing remains local forever. Here are 12 potential summer jams that sound just as good in the open air as in a nightclub, that deserve as wide an listenership as they can get, and that can make any party sound like it's being thrown by a world traveler:
5. JJ Project, "Bounce"
South Korea
South Korea's super-stimulated, rigorously choreographed pop scene has been making headlines in the U.S. for a while now, thanks to several mad-genius producers, a game-for-anything stable of stars and starlets, and a collective willingness to cannibalize the best of worldwide pop's past and present to feed whatever high-energy dance song or hyper-emotional ballad (or both at once) is under construction. JJ Project are a pair of dancers and singers, JB and Jr., and "Bounce" is their first single, a giddy rush that runs through dance-pop, hip-hop, hard rock, and glitchy electronic meltdowns without putting a hair out of place.
6. Girls' Generation, "Paparazzi"
South Korea
Also known as SNSD at home, Girls' Generation is a nine-member collective that had their first hit in 2007 which, in the fast-paced world of Korean pop, practically qualifies them as a veteran act. "Paparazzi" is their latest single, a big, swinging-for-the-bleachers dance number that takes full advantage of their deep bench to keep the melody coming from every direction. The video uses a very familiar (to U.S. audiences, anyway) music as a framing device for the song, which wears its classicism lightly, aping not Gene Kelly rather but Michael Jackson, K-pop's truest forebear.
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Sources
Text and Photo: theAtlantic
Videos: JJ Project, S.M. Entertainment
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Date: 2012-06-23 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-23 04:57 am (UTC)A car ride is not a good car ride without this playing.
It gives me summer early 2000's vibes a la ashanti.
idkidk but this song has to be played omw to and from work.
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Date: 2012-06-23 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-06-23 05:34 am (UTC)yup definitely dancing like this at a club.
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Date: 2012-06-23 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-23 06:01 am (UTC)And i may have done that move yuri is doing in a club once while drunk. I'm glad it was dark in the club.
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Date: 2012-06-23 07:36 am (UTC)that's my summer jam though.
ooh P-square is on that list!
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Date: 2012-06-23 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-23 10:12 am (UTC)Shocked that Electric Shock isn't in the list.
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Date: 2012-06-23 10:26 am (UTC)lee hyori is timeless
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Date: 2012-06-23 11:49 am (UTC)surprised WG and f(x) aren't there
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Date: 2012-06-23 06:53 pm (UTC)Nice to see Icona Pop, love them.
And yea, Electric Shock should be on the list.
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