The Chainsmokers, Summertime Friends | Track Review 🎵

On the respectable “Summertime Friends,” The Chainsmokers – specifically Drew Taggart – recalls the night he met his girlfriend.

“In the back of the bar / You’re talking to me with the lights on,” 🎙 Drew Taggart sings abruptly, but energetically in the first verse of  🎵 “Summertime Friends”.  The vocalist for the 🏆 Grammy-winning collective, 🎙 The Chainsmokers –  Taggart and 🎙 Alex Pall – cites this brief song as the story of how he met his girlfriend ❤️.  The sentiment is sweet as love is a wonderful thing, especially if you’re like Taggart and thought for sure she was out of his league 😏. “You told me love don’t exist,” he continues, “And if it does, it doesn’t last long.” The question is, is “Summertime Friends” quite as sweet as the story behind it?

Meh, it’s okay, perhaps a bit more enjoyable listening for a second time to the two-minute-and-20-second single. Regarding the sound, “Summertime Friends” leans more pop/rock than dance per se. Nothing wrong with that. The vocals, however, do sound idiomatic of the dance genre, with the respective effects/production surrounding them. There have been times Taggart’s pipes have been criticized.  He sounds okay here… not a powerhouse or utterly distinct performance, but okurrr. By the chorus, “Summertime Friends” embraces dance more, with an expanded palette of sounds and the simplistic, repetitive chorus.  The key lyric that Taggart sings: “It doesn’t matter where you are.” WOO! All told, this Pall, Taggart and 🎼 ✍ Scott Harris penned joint is – wait for it – respectable.  Does it move the needle on The Chainsmokers at this point? Nope, but it’s inoffensive.

🎙 The Chainsmokers • 🎵 “Summertime Friends” • 🏷 Secondhand Happiness, Inc. / Disruptor / Columbia • 🗓 9.8.23

[📷: Brent Faulkner/The Musical Hype; Secondhand Happiness, Inc. / Disruptor / Columbia; OpenClipart-Vectors, PIRO via Pixabay]