Looks like there’s a good chance a drinking song will be the official song of summer in 2024.
No, we don’t just mean we could have another rowdy summer hit about pounding alcohol. You know, like last summer’s biggest single, “Last Night” by Morgan Wallen.
This summer, we have a couple big song-of-summer contenders that instead reference coffee drinks: Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” and Hozier’s “Too Sweet” are brewing up a lot of attention using caffeinated beverages for romantic metaphors. Carpenter’s tune name-drops Mountain Dew, too.
Granted, there’s still a boozy mix out there for 2024 hits, too. Hozier’s tune also references whiskey. Wallen’s latest hit, “I Had Some Help” — written by and sung with Post Malone — has a refrain about hitting the bottle too hard. And then there’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Nashville newcomer Shaboozey, a shamelessly blatant attempt at a drinking hit that’s spreading like Jell-O shots at a frat party.